Bang The Drum All Day

Bang The Drum All Day

Saturday, 30 November 2024

A Complete Unknown - the life and times of Bob and Joan

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Bob Dylan fans are abuzz about the new biopic 'A Complete Unknown' starring Timothee Chalomet, depicting Dylan's emergence in th...
Sunday, 10 November 2024

Music while you work. Some recommendations

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Working from home certainly has its advantages - it can actually make you more productive, as long as you keep the distractions to a minimum...
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Saturday, 20 July 2024

Queen’s famous 1976 free concert in Hyde Park

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London's Hyde Park - 18th September 1976 – it's the sixth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death and I am attending a free concert ...
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Wednesday, 22 May 2024

A Tribute to David Sanborn

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Sanborn with David Bowie in 1975 Here was an artist who had been a feature of my life since I first heard him on record in the early 1970s. ...
Tuesday, 7 May 2024

Sandy Denny and Fotheringay - A Beguiling Songbook

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In his book Electric Eden,   Rob Young says the 1970 album Fotheringay   can be seen as “effectively the first proper Sandy Denny record, he...
Friday, 23 February 2024

Who's next - lightning in a bottle

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Photo by Ethan Russell In their heyday The Who were a truly exciting live band; there can be little argument about that. But it wasn't u...
Sunday, 30 July 2023

An alternative to those predictable lists of 'classic' albums

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As a brief glimpse at my blog posts will confirm, I love the classic rock albums as much as the next child of the 1960s and 70s. But who amo...
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I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, the classic era for rock, soul and modern jazz. Click on the topics below to take a walk through my life in music.
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