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Category Archives: Departures
Jon Lord Passes Away.
Tweet When did I stop saying “died”? Jon Lord died today. Born in 1941 Lord was a huge influence on keyboard players that followed him. (You may detect that I am not the biggest fan of keyboard players, never as sexy as guitar players, let alone sax players) having said that, he was one of [...]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, deep purple, jon lord, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, the artwoods
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Bob died 30 Years Ago – But Danny Did NOT Do It!
Tweet 30 years ago today Bob Marley died of acral lentiginous melanoma. ALM is a form of skin cancer that unlike other melanomas is not related to exposure to sun light. During a charity football match in 1977 Danny Baker (a fine broadcaster and music lover) trod on BM’s toe, breaking it. The ALM was [...]
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Tagged as: bob marley, On This Day, reggae, rock and blues, rock steady, ska
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On This Day – Big Boy, Big Gone
Tweet On this day in 1974 the man who wrote That’s All Right covered so famously by Elvis died. Arthur Big Boy Crudup was born in Mississippi in 1905. He became a blues singer and made his way to Chicago. He did not really do too well there as he was living in a packing [...]
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Tagged as: arthur big boy crudup, classic rock music, elvis presley, rock and blues, sun records
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On This day – Keith Moon
Tweet On this day in 1978 Keith Moon died. He overdosed on a drug called Heminevrin. Ironically this had been prescribed to help him over alcohol withdrawal symptoms. “Moon the Loon” joined The Who in 1964 after Doug Samden left and played on all their albums from “My Generation” (1865) to “Who Are You” released [...]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, deaths, keith moon, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues, the who
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Les Paul
Tweet Les Paul has died, aged 94. He suffered from complications associated with pneumonia. It is too easy when talking about music to use lots of superlatives which only leads to them being devalued. So, when I say that Les Paul was one of the true greats of popular music that is exactly what I [...]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, les paul, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues
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Sam Phillips Dies 30 July 2003
Tweet Sam Phillips did more than most to shape popular music in the 50s and 60s. As Owner and leading light of the mighty Sun Records he discovered or developed Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. Inpite of this roll call of talent it is easy to [...]
Posted in Blues, Departures, On This Day, rock and blues
Tagged as: blues music, classic rock music, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, sam phillips, sun records
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Michael Jackson Why Wait Till He’s Dead ? (part 2)
Tweet I touched on this in a previous post. It now seems that Michael Jackson has sold 2.3 million albums in the last 2 weeks, in thew States alone. Good news for the owners of the state. (Expect more legal wrangling). My question remains the same, why now? Are we so stupid that we forget [...]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, michael Jackson
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John Henry Hammond
Tweet John Hammond died on this day in 1987. JH was one of those people who were enormously influencial but often overlooked. Often given credit where it was not deserved but denied the credit that was due to him. John Hammond was a record producer rather than a talent scout. Back in the early ’30s [...]
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Tagged as: billie holiday, blues music, deaths, john hammond, On This Day, robert johnson
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On This day – Brian Jones
Tweet 1969, is it really 40 years ago? Brian jones was found dead in his swimming pool. He was the original guitatist with the Stolling Bones, arguably their best period – when they still played blues based rock. Jones’ influences were jazz and blues with him citing Elmore james, Robert Johnson (see my article Records [...]
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Tagged as: brian jones, classic rock, love rock music, On This Day, real rock
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Michael Jackson
Tweet MJ died overnight as I slept in the UK. While I am not going to go into details of his life (follow this link to WikiP if you want that stuff) his contribution to music is worth comment. MJ is significant to Real Rock and Blues for 2 reasons. Firstly, it is difficult for [...]
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