The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The standard length of a pop song has long been considered three minutes, even though pop songs haven’t consistently been three minutes long for a generation or more. The creep began in the 70s—American Top 40 went from a three-hour show to a four-hour show in October 1978 because the records were getting so long—and [...]
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Scotsman enthralls crowd but an overheated engine cuts short Formula One extravaganza.
India Press Release (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
/India PRwire/ - Most of us are used to seeing F1 cars rocketing along at speeds of 300km/h down straights and downshifting asthey head into hairpin turns. But, on Wednesday, 7th October 2009, F1enthusiasts received a special treat as the Red Bull Racing crew assembledtheir Formula One car ahead of the highly anticipated Red Bull Speed Link at the JW Marriott. Spectators got a rare insightinto the...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The technical assembling of the car was carried out on Wednesday at JW Marriott hotel in Juhu under the supervision of Burrows.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Welcome to the world of Formula One team's factory, where hundreds of people from different nationalities work round the clock with one aim -- to succeed.
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
10: David Essex - Rock On: From movie actor topop star, a watered-down glam-rocker with great production. 9: The First Class - Beach Baby: Studio singers John Carter and Tony Burrows mine gold a la the Beach Boys. 8: Terry...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
When my girlfriend came home from a month in Europe about this time in 1977, she brought back a lot of stuff for me, including a copy of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” and one of the first chart books I ever owned. Called Star File, it’s a comprehensive breakdown of the British [...]
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Songs for a Sunday will be a new feature of mine. Every Sunday (or when my busy schedule allows) I will feature songs from YouTube that I either grew up with courtesy of my parents' tastes, or are personal favourites of mine. Today's offering falls into both categories. This UK session band, originally called Greenfield Hammer , was fronted by Exeter-born singer Tony Burrows. He also went on to front...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
One of the most unusual stories in pop music is that of British singer Tony Burrows, who could be described as a sort of human hit machine. Although his name is not widely recognized, in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s he had the knack - and the talent - to show up in an [...]
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Recently-crowned five-time World Rally Champion Sbastien Loeb is 'on it' as he prepares for his first proper F1 test with Red Bull Racing in Barcelona next week - as he gets to grips with the team's RB4 at a damp Silverstone.
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Any roll call of great American radio stations must include Nashville’s legendary WSM, which is the subject of a new book, Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, by Craig Havighurst. (I recommend it to anyone interested in the evolution of radio, even to people unfamiliar with WSM.) The station [...]
FreedomSight (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Not sure why, but I’ve descending, this AM, into a mental sort of maundering into music I listened to while in grade school. In some cases, the tunes are pretty decent. In others, they're amusing, but I can't imagine why they got onto the charts at all. Witness Gimme Dat Ding. The Pipkins were a short-lived [...]
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