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The Glimmer Twins react to news that Allen Klein, accountant, died 4 July 2009His first client was the soul music star Sam Cooke, who was unable to get royalty payments from his record company, RCA....
View ArticleMaximum R'n'B
I bought this record when I was a teenager. The right age for hearing it in 1965. I LOVED it. I saw The WHO at Festival Hall in the mid-1970's. They were still smashing stuff. And everything about...
View ArticleMost Under-rated Band In Rock History?
A US Country-music blogger I fell over via a profile at Norm Geras(Emeritus Professor, cricket tragic, and Country music-maven) isSetting The Woods On Fire.STWOF asks his: "highly intelligent readers:...
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Willie Nelson is God.5 wives, 2000 songs, one hell of a legend.I was saddened to read that his longtime stage manager died recently.Poodie Locke led most of the audience and The Highwaymen on foot back...
View ArticleThe Art of Chris Farlowe
Rhythm and Blues was the music of Sixties MODS, and the soulful Farlowe got as close to the black heart of R&B as any white-boy could. The Art of Chris Farlowe was released December 1966.on Andrew...
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HE was born on the 9th NINE Deep Space NINE The Law Of NINES He said of Revolution No: 9 "I think it was the best thing I've ever done". dear Dr. Winston O'Boogie.
View ArticleKnickers, Nick.
What a far cry it is from the early performing days of the revered Mr Nicholas Cave, (when his promoters pleaded unsuccessfully with the shocking but influential COUNTDOWN TV show, for a...
View ArticleLooneyTunes
We all read the papers and accept most of it as true or accurate.We also assume that a Queen's Counsel, engaged at a daily fee that could buy a car, would know what he was talking about. This is not...
View ArticleSt.Valentine
On the Saints Day for unrequited love, this wrencher given to us by David & Jimmy Ruffin. Rod Stewart did it, and Joe Cocker, but Chris Farlowe's is my favourite version. Play it over and over...
View ArticleMuswell Hill billies
UPDATE 8th Dec 2013 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies has been rereleased and this interview with Ray Davies is a tremendously satisfyingly and enjoyable read: "You know, I lived in Surrey for a...
View Articlevote early
Today at The Guardian - 'whistleblowers play a crucial role in keeping the "public reason" alive. Assange, Manning, Snowden, ... one should not exaggerate the softness of the US: true, the US doesn't...
View ArticleRev. Frost is so cool
The iconic* and most worshipful Reverend Frost writes (possibly) from his musical manse in France that he has done another deal with the devil at the crossroads: (*see witty pseudo-holy portrait which...
View Articlean heir to a throne
Photo for illustrative purposes only ... Bugs Bunny behind the drum riser, and yes fans, it's Monacomania - Neal Preston a great photographer of rockstars took that top image and now has a digital...
View Articlechill amp for chill axe
For every lawyer who has a Fender Strat on a stand in a corner of his office, now the bar refrigerator :
View Articlea Baron of Keef
This image of Keef sums up Rock and Roll so totally. Impact, energy, joy. Baron Wolman captured the moment. As ground floor opportunities go, they don’t get much better than being asked by a...
View ArticleAuteur auteur!
" ... it's Nick bloody Cave." said artist James Powditch who has suffered for his newest work of art and suffered also the imperious household staff of Nicholas who does not even answer a question...
View Articleinto the mystic
Great TV series Murphy's Law had our hero (played by Irish actor James Nesbitt) in a scene strolling with a priest and mentioning Van Morrison. The priest professed no knowledge of the name so our hero...
View ArticlePaperback Writer
UPDATED September 2015: That estimate of 78 thou seemed on the low side to me and of course it followed that the auction realised US$2.899 million Here in the Marshall stacks, we miss the John as he...
View ArticleSIR Raymond Davies
his composition A Well Respected Man had snide intent so cannot be used as a subbie here for our dear Ray who is actually genuinely and legitimately well respected. Mods with brains liked The Kinks....
View Articlea wall of sound
DOLF image. that's all I could discover and it's driving me mad. Dolf could be the photographer, the artist or the printer. Here's an unreal concept though - this nifty Marshall amp hauler is from a...
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