Imagine, if you can, a time when it seemed like every third record in the chart shared a common gene. And not just a lyrical thread or a particular way of processing the human voice so that it sounds like a singing robot nose, we're talking about a drum sample, one which starts with a "whooh!" and ends with a "yeah!" , and back in the early '90s it was EVERYWHERE. Every dance track...
What's on in Sweden: International film festival & Simple Minds (UK) in Stockholm; Christmas market & Takida in Gothenburg; The Sonics (US) in Malmö/Lund.
The transition into Thai has given the Anglo-American music a penetrating note, as if high-pitched percussive instruments are being quickly struck and pieces of metal are being clashed. Americans, says the American in the room next to the one in which I'm sitting, have not heard of Cliff Richard, so if you're American I'm not sure how useful it will be to learn that the 1960s Thai pop genre known as...
A month or two ago, Tim got up early and drove to Brighton to record brass on Robb Johnson's new Christmas album, "The Ghost of Love". We've just got the package of finished albums through, and are listening through to it - it's absolutely brilliant. It's a concept album, and if you're looking for a nice, warm, fuzzy, feelgood kind of a Christmas album to shelve beside Cliff Richard and...
Rahul Dravid got to 11,000 Test runs yesterday. I count myself fortunate that I saw the first 95 of them, when he almost made a hundred on Test debut at Lord's in 1996. I also saw him advance to 5,335...
The Pope's album is an odd one, but is it the strangest Christmas number one hope ever? From Mr Blobby to Bob the Builder, check out our bizarre festive hit round-up.
I’ve falled a tad out of touch with the video exploits of Nick Stevens, but if the above clip is anything to go, the recent NESN fixture hasn’t lost a step. I don’t know what’s up with former Colts head coach/spiritual advisor to backup QB’s Tony Dungy, but Cliff Richard’s secret to phenomenal physical fitness [...]
A correspondent writes to say he's noted that regional accents disappear in songs, or at least become less detectable, and wonders if there's an explanation. This is true, as a general observation, and there two reasons for it. The first is phonetic. Several of the main identifying features of a regional accent tend to disappear when singing - the intonation (obviously, as a melody replaces it), the...
A retired medical practitioner who has over 1,400 videos to his name, and with a fan base of thousands spread over India , Pakistan, the US, Canada and the UK in just 18 months, the 65-year-old doctor is India's latest YouTube sensation .
#567, 29th March 1986, video I was absolutely forbidden from watching the first series of The Young Ones, in 1982. I relied on awed playground rumour of its violence and uproar. I was a little scared of it. Second time around, in 1984, I could watch it but not in the living room – only [...]
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