If you have ever watched Jamie, Gordon or Nigella demo a recipe on the box and thought you could do better then a new website gives you the chance to prove it. The brain child of entrepreneurs Omar Saeed and Paul Finnegan, EatTheChef.com is an online recipe site which allows the UK's home cooks to upload videos [...]
... – almost unimaginably flamboyant – blitzed through punk, 60s garage and 50s rock'n'roll right back to the wellspring of the blues. For 20 years or more, contemporary pop had been in denial of its roots in early 20th-century traditions. Blues was for old people, fuddy-duddies. Overnight, it became cool again, and the duo from Detroit were hailed here, long before America caught...
You know what it's like: There are some songs, like Jimmy Hendrix's, "Purple Haze," or The Stones', "Jumping Jack Flash," where the guitar introductions practically clinch the recordings all by themselves. That's how it used to be for me, with Patti Smith's cover of "So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' RollStar." (Wikipedia's entry on The Byrds' orginal is here...
... in the squad have perhaps never been so appealing. David Beckham is a modern day rock and rollstar, the European Barack Obama. Peter Crouch and David James possess statesmanlike qualities that I daresay will carry them very far once they hang up their boots. Wayne Rooney still plays football like a wee boy in the park which is stunning to watch while refreshingly dry michael Owen's...
John Mellencamp’s son started a campaign that will get his rock and rollstar father to stop smoking. Mellencamp has tried to quit smoking since 1994 after he suffered from a heart attack. Mellencamp’s youngest son Speck said that if his dad’s Facebook group hits 1 million followers, his rock star father will [...]
The Observer names Jack White "rock'n'rollstar of the decade." The Boston Globe interviews Ha Jin about his new short fiction collection, A Good Fall. Q. How did you return to the short story? A. I had intended for a...
This is why the interweb is great. In the Stars You Once Fancied thread Sheev posted a YouTube montage of Gillian Blake, containing the fantastic David Cassidy tune Cherish . This prompted a bit of a Partridge Family meandering on Spotify and Wikipedia. I have re-discovered how many great pop songs they released. Some may scoff, but considering the music was largely the work of The Wrecking...
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. THE BYRDS – So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ RollStar / Everybody’s Been Burned (Columbia 43987 1967) They had a bit of a nerve poking fun at the Monkees when just a couple of [...]
... running around.) Roger Daltrey if I’m not mistaken, John Bon Jovi, and many other rock-and-rollstars said they first ventured into R-n-R bands primarily in order to get girls and sex, not primarily in order to sing or play music. Well, there’s no doubt whatsoever but that many men who are in reality fundamentally apolitical go into left-liberal politics for the same reason:...
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There’s no secret to the rise of Twisted Wheel, “We just make good honest rock ’n’ roll music that people clock on to,” says bassist Richard Lee, who prefers to be known as Ricky. Only his mum calls him Richard. And hasn’t Mrs Lee’s son done his mum proud? The Mancunian three-piece, Lee, drummer Adam Clarke and front man Jonny Brown, are on a headline...
... the Walker Brothers. Anthony Reynolds. 2009, Genuine Jawbone Books. So you want to be a rock 'n rollstar? Borrow 10 grand from your father, move to England, and act like one...for a few months. Make a hit record then drink heavily for 40 years. Then sober up a little and try to convince the world that you were once bigger than the Beatles and the Stones. OK. So? Could be true? One...
... are. They improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Talk all you want about their $208 million payroll and their roll call of stars, but the Yankees are winning because of their hearts, not their bank accounts. ... For the sake of a Series predicted to be an actual Fall Classic, it would be nice if the Phillies could somehow push this to a seventh game. But, sigh, I'm not holding my breath. Before...
... are. They improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Talk all you want about their $208 million payroll and their roll call of stars, but the Yankees are winning because of their hearts, not their bank accounts. One night -- the first night of this World Series -- they were down 1-0. Now they're up 3-1 and on the brink of a long-awaited world title. "That was sooooo awesome," gushed actress Kate...