This week for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim is looking for a song by an artiste inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s no question that Pink Floyd deserve their place in that pantheon and this is a lovely, often overlooked, song from the 1970 album ‘Atom Heart Mother’. If I were a…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is – perhaps a little morbidly – something that you would like to be played at your own funeral. That isn’t to say that I haven’t thought about it occasionally (who among us has not?, as Anthony Trollope might have put it.). However, it’s a bit tricky as…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is the so-called ‘British Invasion’, referring to those British performers who ‘made it’ – however briefly – in the US, initially on the back of The Beatles’ extraordinary success. Appropriately enough, this is a Lennon/McCartney song (on which they did actually co-operate), which they very generously gave away…
British music is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Last week, I featured the original Fleetwood Mac, a band I saw at university. Another memorable performance from my university days was the British group Family, probably much less familiar to a US audience. Perhaps best categorised as ‘psychedelic electric folk’. the key element…
If you like classic rock, you must love the blues – and I surely do.There’s certainly plenty to choose from, but I decided to go with this version of the Elmore James classic ‘Dust My Broom’, as performed by Fleetwood Mac when they were still good. In fact, one of the best shows I ever…
Oh, I’ve been to ‘discos’ alright – if by that you mean standing around the edge of a Junior Common Room while a distinctly amateur DJ plays loud music and some people dance. However, to the best of my knowledge I have only ever been to one actual ‘discotheque’ in my entire life. It was…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about girl groups. For reasons that I have no intention of going into here – or anywhere else, for that matter – this particular song is still capable of producing an almost Pavlovian response in me whenever I hear it. And they weren’t called The Supremes for nothing……
Back in the mid-seventies the Bay City Rollers were the biggest boy band, certainly in the UK and perhaps even on the planet. I had a job in Manchester at the time and they were shooting a video in the theatre of the company I worked for. The place was surrounded by hundreds of screaming…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘gospel’. That’s a difficult one for me, as I do not have an iota of belief in any supreme or supernatural being. Better just leave it at that. Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of lifeEnd over end, neither left nor to rightStraight through the heart…
It’s reggae week on Song Lyric Sunday, and that’s certainly fine by me. I listened to quite a lot of reggae in my teenage years, not least because my brother was (is) a major fan. It’s hard not to be seduced by the hypnotic rhythms. The go-to reggae artiste is the great Bob Marley, of…
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