Category: Music
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At the birth of The Animals
“I loved Newcastle so much that I failed my exams. I probably should not have gone clubbing during re-sits with Alan Price and Eric Burdon before they got together as The Animals and released House of the Rising Sun.” Wait, what???!!!
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Iggy’s lust for life undimmed
Once on stage he was a wild beast. The crowd, a very broad spread of ages, greeted him as the returning hero which he is: the last survivor of the three godfathers of punk, since we lost Bowie and Reed.
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What the song meant to her
Its aching regret makes it one of the most powerful songs in musical theatre.
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A Complete Unknown – Bob Dylan
For a hero of the peace and love generation, he sure harboured a lot of hate.
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Why you haven’t heard of Reg
How can anyone be so talented, and produce such marvellous music, and still be so little known?
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The Mint Juleps shine again
Perhaps they were planning some other gigs? Unfortunately not, I was informed by Debbie C – this was strictly a one off. A precious treat. And I couldn’t go. But…I couldn’t not go.
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The woman who sat on my lap
How little I knew, as I recoiled from this unexpectedly close contact, about the lady on my lap. Looking back, I feel honoured.
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Get to know: Tim Hardin
“A Tim Hardin song never outstays its welcome. It’s very short and pretty: one verse, one chorus, second verse, the song is over and he’s out of there. It’s like a tiny, perfectly cut gem.”
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Protected: Operas and Musicals Rik and Debbie have seen (don’t worry, it’s not interesting)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The V.I.P.’s – the story of a band
If having a chart entry is the mark of success, you could say the V.I.P.’s made it.
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Three Sex Pistols with Frank Carter – O2 Forum Kentish Town, 26 September 2024
I bought “Never Mind the Bollocks” on the day it came out and played it again and again. Damn, they cut it loud. It spoke to my desires and frustrations, to my energy and my ambition. It was the record I needed in that part of my life.
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Get to know: Lonnie Donegan
There’s much more to Lonnie Donegan than My Old Man’s a Dustman. Without him the course of British pop and rock music – and so, world pop and rock music – would have been much the poorer.
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Hawkwind: the drummer’s naked pedicure (illustrated)
“My brother helped organise a Hawkwind gig at Watford Grammar School (!) in the early 1970’s. After the gig he had to go and explain to the band that they didn’t have enough money to pay the full fee.”
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Ruby Turner, The Moonlight Club, July 16 1980
When she stopped there was a second of stunned silence followed by a roar of acclaim.
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Devinylisation
They were now tainted with a vague guilt, like distant elderly relatives I didn’t visit very often…
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