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Tag Archives: classic 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 […]
Posted in On This Day, Uncategorized
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 – 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 […]
On This Day – The Beatles in Hamburg
On this day in 1962 the beatles started a 2 week run at the Star Club in Hamburg. By This time Ringo had replaced Pete Best after he left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. It was on this trip that the Beatles found out that btheir original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe had died of an […]
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Tagged as: astrid kirsherr, classic rock music, fatts waller, john lennon, mike watt, On This Day, paul mccartney, real rock and blues, ring starr, rock and blues, stuart sutcliffe, the beatles
Wreckless Eric
There is no real reason for posting this, other than I love it and it is great to see Ian Dury again. Remind me to tell you about the Wreckless Eric Appreciation Society some time……….
Posted in rock and blues
Tagged as: classic rock music, ian dury, real rock and blues, rock and blues, wreckless eric
Captain Beefheart
In 1968 Captain Beefheart was taken to Cannes to play as part of the record company’s publicity push. It would appear that they had visions of The Captain and the Magic Band rivaling The Rolling Stones…. Anyway, here is a video of The Captain playing on the beach. I have been asked what is so […]
Posted in rock and blues
Tagged as: captain beefheart, classic rock music, frank zappa, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, ry cooder
On This Day – Bob Crashes
On this day in 1966 Bob Dylan crashed his motorbike. Apparently he suffered serious neck injuries although their extent have never been fully confirmed. After the accident an ambulance was not called and was taken home in a car by his then wife Sara. The crash, the circumstances of which were not fully explained, did have […]
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Tagged as: bob dylan, classic rock music, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues
On This Day 1969 – Bowie’s Oddity
Can you believe that it is 41 years, to the day that Space Oddity was released by Bowie? Neither can I, the rest as they say is history. Oh yes, this is the original version…………..
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Tagged as: bowie, classic rock music, rock and blues, rock music, space oddity
On This Day – The Stones’ TV Debut & First Single
The Stones made their TV debut this day in 1963 on Thank Your Lucky Stars playing their first single C’mon. It may come a surprise to some of the younger readers that The Stones were once a rock and blues band playing blues covers. Their first album, imaginatively titled The Rolling Stones featured songs by […]
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Tagged as: Blues, blues music, chuck berry, classic rock music, muddy waters, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rolling stones, rufus thomas, skip james, willie dixon
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 […]
Posted in Rants, Uncategorized
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