The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In an age when a few weeks' exposure on grim reality television leads inexorably to at least one memoir, how refreshing to discover that a singer whose career spans 40 years, a million-selling record, a handful of theatrical awards and an OBE had to be persuaded to put metaphorical pen to paper – and that money wasn't a deciding factor.
palma2mxs.weblog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
50 éxitos de sencillos, dos horas y media de música diversa .. de calidad una colección extraordinaria que no puedes dejar de tener para escucharla y disfrutarla como tú te mereceres. 50 hit singles, two and a half hours of diverse music .. average quality but a decent collection! CD 1 01 – Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 02 – [...]
Traffic Light Musings (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I'm finally getting around to publishing this top 10 list, after talking about it for weeks if not months. Putting together this list made me realise how subjective the concept of a guilty pleasure is. You might think that Chic and Abba are guilty pleasures, but as far as I'm concerned, if it belongs on the dance floor, then I'm not going to feel so much as a pang of guilt any time soon. So here goes,...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Billy Connolly began his celebrated entertainment career in the late '60s as a musician, putting out several albums in a folk duo called The Humblebums. His partner Gerry Rafferty eventually left the band to find fame as the writer/singer of such rock hits as "Stuck in the Middle With You" and "Baker Street." Connolly branched off into his own solo career, but the funny banter between...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Bottom Feeders reaches the letter R this week, which means plenty of rockin' with the likes of Rainbow, Bonnie Raitt, Ratt, and -- hey, what the hell is Lou Rawls doing here?
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
YouTube - Gerry Rafferty - Get it Right Next Time (recode)
I ♥ MUSIQUE (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
1. Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks 2. Willesden To Cricklewood - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros 3. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 4. London Bridge - Fergie 5. Mile End - Pulp
Write Anything (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Image via Wikimedia Commons in the public domain. 2009 sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Rabbie Burns, the national bard of Scotland. In celebration of this, the Scottish Government declared 2009 to be the year of homecoming, an opportunity for expat Scots (like me) or those with Scottish ancestry to return to [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
I was sitting here planning a route for a day in London today when it naturally occurred to me to make music connections with the names of tube stations. A couple of obvious ones to begin with: Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty (Sunny) Goodge Street - Donovan Vauxhall (and I) - Morrissey Off you go then. I expect a full set by the time I get home this evening.
ELObsessive blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Hello dear friends J Well it’s time for another batch of oldies but goldies from another era, as I’m going away again – will be back on AR on Friday 25th September. As ever, just picking a handful of tunes from such a huge selection of classics is difficult, but here are some of my current favourites which I hope you'll enjoy at least some of, too: First up, one of my favourite ballads...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
I have very recently found out that Bob Marley was really rather good, surely I must be among the last persons on earth to recognise this? I remember when Bob Marley died, I was at primary school and a rather scary teacher (Mr Eade I recall) did an assembly on him. He talked about how brave he was in his battle against cancer, at the end of the 'sermon' he played one of his records. The entire hall...
Cameron K's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Bill Smith and Ron Cruikshanks were studying architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art in the mid fifties when they went to Ireland to collect folk music. On their return they started an impromptu group called the Corrie Voices with Andy Turner (banjo). Folk music was popular in the UK driven mainly by American folk singers like Woody Guthrie and The Weavers. Slowly the traditional Scottish ballads...
Emergiblog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Hey! My nursing school did not have a jukebox! For you young ‘uns who think music has always come out of an iPod, you put your quarter in the machine and chose one or two songs for it to play (via vinyl 45s). I looked up the American Top 40 for my nursing school graduation date. The [...] Hey, Mr. POST Man (and Woman)
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List If Quentin Tarantino 's movie career can be encapsulated in a single blast of music, it's the twang-laden rumble of Dick Dale 's 'Miserlou.' Energizing the opening credits of ' Pulp Fiction ,' it's a hard, fast piece of retro cool set in an eminently modern (and post-modern) context. Plus, it's exciting as hell. Few other filmmakers have been so renowned for their...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
Last week we gave you our ultimate summer songs and asked for yours. You wondered: Where's "Summer in the City"? Where are the Beach Boys? Where's this? Where's that?
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