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The Stone Roses Reform – You Heard it First Here (Part 2)
So all rumours and pre-announcement leaks were true. The Stone Roses are back together, or will be in 2012 for 2 gigs in Manchester (where else?) and then a world tour. There will even be some new songs and, perhaps, a new album. The gigs will take place at Heaton Park in Manchester on Friday […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, ian Brown, john squire, love rock music, real rock, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music, stone, stone roses, stone roses reunion, stone roses tickets
The Stone Roses to Reform – You Heard it First Here!
In fact, you probably did not hear it here first, it is all over the media. Even in the Daily Mail (that well known organ obviously has its finger on the pulse of Yooth Kulture). That being inspite of a press conference being set for Tuesday 18th October to make “an announcement”. It now seems […]
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Tagged as: beatles, bob dylan, captain beefheart, classic rock music, dusty springfield, iggy pop, john lennon, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, stone roses, the stooges
Blank Generation
There is no real reason to post this other than it refers to Blank Generation and my fave guitar player Robert Quine with a couple more clips of him one with the wonderful Fred Maher. If you like this blog please donate to support it.
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Tagged as: blank generation, classic rock music, fred maher, love rock music, real rock and blues, robert quine, rock and blues, rock music
The Don on Radio 4 Shock!
Imagine my surprise. There I was lisyening to Desert Island discs on BBC Radio 4 yesterday. The guest was the people’s poet Ian McMillan. He was playing discs that reminded him of his mother ansd father, typical romantic slush that normal working class adults listened to in the 40s. Then he said, almost hesitantly, that […]
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Tagged as: beefheart, captain beefheart, classic rock music, desert island discs, don van vliet, ian mcmillan, love rock music, radio 4, real rock and blues, rock and blues, zappa
On This Day – Bowie Makes it to Network US TV!
On this day, in 1975, Bowie made it to US network TV for the first time! (Just why did it take so long for the yanks to catch up?) Anyway, the album that made it for him was “Young Americans” not one of his greatest (in my opinion) and one that marked another of his […]
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Tagged as: bowie, cher, classic rock music, defries, fame, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, thin white duke, young americans
On This day – 1814 was a Sexy Year
On this day in 1814 Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant in Wallonia, Belgium. He was an instrument designer and maker. What do you think he invented and patented? Just the sexiest instrument (apart from the electric guitar) in the world, that’s all. He patented it on 28 June 1846. Although feted by Hector Berlioz […]
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Tagged as: adolphe sax, blues music, musical instruments, real rock and blues, saxophone
On This day – The Beatles Entertain The Royals
On this day in 1963 The Beatles topped the bill at The Royal Variety Show at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret were in the audience. The event was made famous by John Lennon with his famous remark “In the cheaper seats you clap your hands. The rest of […]
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Tagged as: beatles, john lennon, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock blues music, royal variety show, the beatles
On This Day – Great Balls of Fire!
On this day in 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis released Great Balls of Fire on the Sun record label. One of the great pioneers of rock and roll Lewis came from a poor familly in Ferriday, Louisiana. He bagan playing piano while young with two of his cousins. His passion for the [iano was such that […]
The Best Band You’ve Never Heard – Click
I have just come across this group, Click. A vocal jazz group out of London. Click are a six-piece London-based vocal jazz group with a strictly voice-only policy. They aim to recreate the sounds of big band jazz without instruments. I hear that they are a fun group to watch and I am not sure […]
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Tagged as: big band jazz, click, oxford gargoyles, real rock and blues, rock and blues, vocal jazz