dustbury.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The iTunes installation on the work box, set to shuffle through 3,236 tracks, managed to put these two together: P. J. Proby's "Niki Hoeky," from 1967, cowritten by Pat and Lolly Vegas. Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love," from 1974, written and sung by Pat and Lolly Vegas. As the phrase goes: "What are the chances?"
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
WITH HIS first feature-length documentary in the can, Erik Nelson tells Aidan Smith why the colourful, unconventional writer Harlan Ellison makes a fitting subject for audie
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
PREPARE for a lorra lorra laughs ... she’s coming back to Liverpool.
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Jim Ford only released one album, 1969’s Harlan County, during his life but he had plenty of stray singles that accumulated over the years. Most of these found their way onto Bear Family's 2007 release The Sounds of Our Times, which reissued the full Harlan County album, along with these 45 rpm rarities and unheard [...]
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
From the Deserts of Araby a recommendation to acquire an Independent on Sunday and read the wonderful "The lady vanishes: What ever happened to Fenella Fielding?" by Ropbert Chalmers - which is also available for those not near a source of the printed copy is available here. Nominally about her recording a curious set of tracks at Suite 16 in Rochdale last year ... "It was a venture which united
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
It's unclear if a massive blue circle appeared over him, like in the telly adverts, but PJ Proby has been interviewed in connection with benefit fraud . Proby denies any fraud has taken place; his Worcestershire home was raided last Summer but there have been no charges or arrests.
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
SINGER PJ Proby has been arrested on suspicion of a £50,000 benefit fraud.
KAZ (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
I don't usually buy the Guardian on Saturday. The supplements are ‘Work’ ( I don't ) ‘Family’ ( I haven't ) and ‘Travel’ ( I only go to Spain and Tameside these days ). But sometimes I find an old one of Kev’s lying around, which is how I came across John Harris saying farewell after three years as their music writer. As you know I’m a great music fan - but I haven't kept up. Sometimes Beth’s play...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
The country/soul singer-songwriter Jim Ford enjoyed great esteem among his fellow musicians. The soul legend Sly Stone said he was “the funkiest white man I know” by . The English singer-songwriter Nick Lowe said he was “my biggest musical influence”.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/15/2007
MUG of tea in hand and surrounded by some of the hundreds of cards he’s received from well-wishers a beaming Ricky Tomlinson says: “I’m a very lucky man.”
VH1 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2007
Boring Like A Drill (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
Click on " Listener Advisory Board " and take the survey yourself! The new survey starts off blah enough (Bangles') but then builds up to an astonishing climax. Is Gene McDaniels the most ubiquitous unknown pop star? I'm guessing that 9 out of 10 people you ask won't know who he is, yet every nostalgia show in the world feels obliged to play at least one of "Tower of Strength", "Chip Chip", or "Point...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
It took some doing, but the Independent's Robert Chalmers managed to wrangle an interview out of PJ Proby, the Texan rocker whose staggering rise and fall in the UK is best typified by the following incident, “in the late 1980s: Proby left the stage after half an hour, telling the audience: ‘I’m sorry. I cannot [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
Forty years ago, PJ Proby travelled to Soweto, where he consulted a Sangoma, or Zulu clairvoyant. The Texan singer ? already world famous for the aberrant talent that prompted writer Nik Cohn to describe him as a genius and "with James Brown, the most electrifying performer I ever saw" ? watched as the fortune-teller cast bones from a leather cup. The Sangoma related extraordinary facts about his visitor's...
