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My Essential 100 Albums – The First One! Captain Beefheart
The idea behind this list is for me to say which 100 albums I will take with me if I was marooned on a desert island or when I have to go to live in an old folks’ home (not that I am anticipating that in the near future). The prospect of paring my CDs […]
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My Essential 100 Albums
In these days when we are all living longer more and more of us will be faced with be faced with spending our declining years in sheltered housing. It goes without saying that most of our possessions will not be going to the home with us. There is not the room in sheltered housing to […]
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Tagged as: Blues, blues music, captain beefheart, classic rock, classic rock music, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music
My Essential 100 Albums – 7 – George Thorogood and the Destroyers, GT&tD
Recorded in 1977 this was the first Thorogood album. Mainly blues covers with only two self penned songs it introduced me to the talent that is George Thorogood. A love of blues shines through the playing. It is one of those things, 10 bands can play the same song but you know instinctively which band […]
On This Day – Blue Suede Shoes
On this day in 1955 one of the all time rock classics was recorded by Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis. It later went on to reach number 2 in the US and number 10 in the UK. It has been covered by loads of artists including Elvis (also a Sun Recording artist) and […]
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Tagged as: Blues, carl perkins, classic rock, classic rock music, elvis presley, john lennon, king of rockabilly, love rock music, On This Day, real rock, real rock and blues, rock, rock music, sam phillips, sun records
On This Day – Coz I Luv You
On this day in 1971 “Coz I Luv You” hit the number 1 spot in the UK. It was Slade’s first number one and was followed by another 5. Slade were a jobbing band in the West Midlands of the UK. After adopting a skinhead persona that was ill judged (skinheads had associations with football […]
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Tagged as: Blues, classic rock, classic rock music, Coz I Luv You, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim Lea, merry xmass everybody, Noddy Holder, On This Day, real rock, real rock and blues, rock, rock and blues, rock music, Slade
On This Day – Johnny and The Moondogs
On this day in 1959 Johnny and The Moondogs played an audition for a talent show. Sadly they did not win. Why should we be bothered about a failed band? Simply because they later became The Silver Beetles, then The Silver Beats and eventually The Beatles. It seems that Lennon took names seriously as The […]
On This Day – Vince Martel Born
On This Day in 1945 Vince Martel was born. He was the lead guitar player in a proto hard rock band Vanilla Fudge who recorded “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”. The Fudge, formed in 1966 by Mark Stein and Tim Bogert were originally called The Pigeons. (There must be a series of posts about band’s […]
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Tagged as: Blues, classic rock, classic rock music, love rock music, Mark Stein, On This Day, real rock, real rock and blues, rock, rock and blues, rock music, Tim Bogert, vanilla fudge, vince martel, you just keep me hanin' on
On This Day – Tin Machine Play Cambridge
OK, not really a red letter day for Rock but on this day in 1991 Tin Machine played the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, UK. It was part of the It’s My Life tour and was the second version of Tin Machine (Eric Schermerhorn joined the band on guitar). Tin Machine was a strange animal. Fronted […]
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On This Day – Eddie Cochran Has The Summertime Blues, in November!
On this day in 1958 the Wonderful Eddie Cochran made the UK Charts with Summertime Blues, one of the classic rock songs that has been covered by many, many artists. Sadly, EC died just some 2 years later. He was in a taxi with Gene Vincent and his girlfriend Sharon Sheeley when it left the […]
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Tagged as: classic rock, classic rock music, eddie Cochran, gene vincent, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music, sharon sheeley, summertime blues