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On This day – The Beatles Hit our TV Screens
On this day in 1962 The Beatles make it onto the small screen. They were on a local TV station “Granada” that broadcasts to the North West of England. The show is a local news programme with a magazine format called ‘People and Places’. On the programme they sang 2 songs live ‘Some Other Guy’ […]
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Tagged as: beatles, beatles on tv, john lennon, On This Day, paul, paul mccartney, rock and blues
Small Faces Reunion (well, some of them anyway).
The Small Faces will reunite to play the Vintage Festival (Goodwood August 13th). There are likely to be more dates and a tour announced in the near future. Trouble is, it isn’t really The faces. It’s Some of them. Rod Stewart will not be there (too busy) he is going to be replaced by Mick […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, faces, glenn matlock, live music, mick hucknall, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rod stewart, ronnie laine, ronnie wood, small faces
Great Mistakes……….. (1)
I loved this girl (as much as any 17 year old ‘loves’). I took her to a bar with a DJ. I got the DJ to play this song for her. She was not my girl friend afterwards……….. What did I do wrong? I still love this.
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Tagged as: captain beefheart, real rock and blues, rock and blues
Ronnie and Mick to Meet
It would seem that the proposed Stones tour is still in danger of not going ahead because of fears for Ronnie Wood’s health. As has been widely reported Ronnie has an alcohol problem and it is this that has cast a shadow over the proposed tour. Mick is, as we all know, heavily involved in […]
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Tagged as: Ekaterina Ivanova, mick jagger, rock and blues, rolling stones, ronnie wood
Firefox is Great – I Hate Firefox!
Hey, I am back! (sorry) I love Firefox but it died on me last week, and being a technophobe I have been pushing random buttons ever since…. I missed Tina Turner’s birthday – among other things. But nothing important – other than a libelous tirade against Ike Turner – just as wel, really……….. Now that […]
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On This Day – Let the Hype Begin!
On this day in 1975 Bruce Springsteen is featured on the cover of both Time and Newsweek. There follows much hype and adulation. Undoubtedly a great performer and writer was the Boss’s hype really justified? Is any of the hype we are subjected to by the publicity departments ever justified? One of the best bits […]
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Michael Jackson Worth More Dead Than Alive? (part 2)
When I was doing my research for this post (I know, you are shocked that I do research) I was looking for information about the rights to MJ image. What I found were a couple of interesting news items, I use the term ‘news’ loosely. The first was a tree stump in Sacramento that suddenly […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, michael Jackson, real rock and blues, rock and blues
White Denim
I often read reviews of bands that refer to influences and there seems to be a settled list of arty influences claimed by most new bands with pretensions. That list includes Lou Reed (Velvet Underground), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Doors, The Beatles. I usually ignore that bit of the review. When I read an […]
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Tagged as: captain beefheart, classic rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, white denim
Michael Jackson – Worth More Dead than Alive?
So what is going on with the Michael Jackson estate and debts? Well, it seems that some of the legal suits against him could be dropped, at least those that depended on MJ’s testimony. Those based on non payment of written contracts will continue. However, it would seem that the money making side of Jackson […]
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