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Category Archives: About and things
Michael Michael Jackson – Why Wait Till He’s Dead ? (part 3)
I never thought when I started this blog that Michael Jackson would provide the first serial post, but then he was such a sad person perhaps I should have. I said in the last post about Michael Jackson that we should expect lots of litigation. I am reminded by James (thanks James) that only in […]
Posted in About and things
Tagged as: classic rock music, michael Jackson, michael jackson litigation, rock and blues
Michael Jackson Why Wait Till He’s Dead ? (part 2)
I touched on this in a previous post. It now seems that Michael Jackson has sold 2.3 million albums in the last 2 weeks, in thew States alone. Good news for the owners of the state. (Expect more legal wrangling). My question remains the same, why now? Are we so stupid that we forget about […]
Posted in About and things, Departures
Tagged as: classic rock music, michael Jackson
Keef Hartley
My scheduled posts was not working a little while ago I fixed the bug and wrote a test post to make sure that it was working. In that test post I mentioned that I had lost a post about Keef Hartley. I was surprised and pleased to see the number of people who had found […]
Posted in About and things
Tagged as: classic rock music, Keef Hartley, love rock music
The Legacy of Sun Records (part 2)
I was thinking about the tv programme I saw the other day and then wrote about. I had forgotten abour Sonny Burgess and so was very pleased to be reminded (apart from the very late mid week night). The programme was also noteable for a couple of other reasons. Billy Lee Riley was also on […]
Posted in About and things, Uncategorized
Tagged as: classic rock music, love rock music, sam phillips, sun records
The Legacy of Sun Records (part 1)
Last night I got home from work late, as is normal, wanting nothing more than a meal and something mindless to watch on TV I began chanel hopping. There I cam across a programme called The Legacy of Sun Records. (Yesterday I noted the sale of Sun records by Sam Phillips,see here) It was quite […]
Posted in About and things
Tagged as: classic rock, love rock music, sam phillips, sun records
More Records That Changed The World
I have published an article about records that changed the world of music. You can read it here. I was quite happy with the list but now I have my doubts, where is Dylan, Wreckless, Jimi? That is the trouble with lists, 10 may be a convenient number but it is not big enough and […]
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Hello world!
A new blog, but not a new site, this is Real Rock and Blues. Originally the site supported a radio programme I did for a community radio station, with the play lists and links to good bands etc. The station died, lack of funds and too many egos…….. and so did the site. But it […]
Posted in About and things, Uncategorized
Tagged as: blues music, nick cave, real rock and blues, rock music