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Monthly Archives: October 2010
On This Day – Bread Today But No Jam Tomorrow
On this day in 1982 The Jam announced to the NME that they were splitting, musical differences, as always, being blamed. Although they emerged at the same time as Punk was making waves The jam were part of the mod revival. Paul Weller, apparently becoming interested in mods after discovering ‘My Generation’ and The Who […]
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Tagged as: On This Day, paul weller, rock and blues, the jam
Arrivals – 30 October
Born on this day, anymore? 1937 Frank Ifield (I Remember You) 1939 Eddie Holland (Holland-Dozier-Holland) 1939 Grace Slick 1945 Henry Winkler (‘The Fonz’) 1947 Tim Schmit (Poco) 1960 Byron Burke (Ten City) 1967 Gavin Rossdale (Bush)
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Tagged as: Byron Burke, Eddie Holland, Frank Ifield, Gavin Rossdale, Grace Slick, Henry Winkler, Tim Schmit
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
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 […]
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Tagged as: captain beefheart, classic rock music, frank zappa, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, ry cooder
On This day – The Payola Scandal Made Public
On This day in 1958 Billboard ran an article attacking the practice of accepting money to play certain records on the radio. The term used was ‘payola’ a combination of ‘pay’ and ‘victrola’ (Victrola was a line of phonographs originally introduced by RCA Victor in 1906 that continued until 1970). The article went on to […]
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Tagged as: alan freed, chuck berry, love rock music, On This Day, payola, real rock and blues, rock and blues
The Best Band You Never Heard 1
Over the last couple of weeks I have been two stonkingly good gigs. Both by the same duo Akoustic Soul. Now, I know them, but that does not mean that I am biased. I know some of the other local bands but they will not feature in this series. Akoustic Soul Are; Andrew Wilson (guitars) […]
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Tagged as: akoustic soul, live music, love rock music, new bands, rock and blues