C’mon now: I was born and grew up on Merseyside. My age reached double figures in the early sixties. The B in my Music Lexicon could only possibly be The Beatles. There again, it’s pretty much beyond me how anyone could fail to pick out The Beatles in any review of their popular musical tastes…
As soon as I saw this week’s theme – the parent/child relationship – two possibilities sprang to my mind. However, as I featured John Lennon only a couple of weeks ago, ‘Mother’ was out. Plus it’s not exactly life-affirming (although obviously always worth a listen). So it had to be this. Brent Mydland was the…
Helen’s latest Song Lyric Sunday prompt over at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time was inspired by the weather. Well, it’s been a bit chilly over here in France for the past few days, and although we’ve missed the worst of it, yesterday’s -5°C was plenty cold enough for us, thank you…
I confess to having been rather behind the curve on Bryan Adams. In fact I don’t think I’d even heard of him – or anything by him – until his big, gloopily sentimemtal hit ‘Everything I Do’ got a huge amount of radio play and spent 16 consecutive weeks at Number One in the UK…
Isn’t it handy that there are 26 letters in the alphabet and 52 weeks in the year? If my arithmetic is correct (it is), that means one letter for every fortnight. So here’s the plan. Every two weeks, working my way through the alphabet, I’m going to publish a post about a group or artiste that…
‘New Beginnings’ is surely an appropriate theme for Song Lyric Sunday on New Year’s Day and this is a song worth listening to any day of the year. Yes, this is about new beginnings, but it’s also about continuity and that’s equally important. “(Just Like) Starting Over” Our life together is so precious together, We…
‘Post a Holiday song that best describes you during the holiday season’ is this week’s challenge for Song Lyric Sunday. Not easy: I can’t think of any songs about relaxing, eating well and watching the box. Or even a bracing country walk. Or getting over a heavy cold. I have to say that this was…
“You take the grey skies out of my way You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day” Bet you didn’t see this one coming. After a steady diet of late sixties and early seventies teenage angst, just for a change I thought to hell with the street cred, lets go Top Twenty and bang…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme of ‘needing someone’ is certainly open to interpretation: needing help, needing love….or just needing: and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s time for some Leonard Cohen: Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want…
“And I can break away to the better life Where the shackles never hold me down” Who doesn’t like the Beach Boys? It’s almost impossible not to buy into the feelgood that comes from those matchless harmonies. So here’s ‘Break Away’: an upbeat song about changing life for the better, to help Helen with her…
the only deadhead in the hameau 