Jim’s doing a bit of digging this week: he’s after a song whose title begins with the first letter of the contributor’s surname. To be fair, he gives us the option of using any letter, but I don’t think confirming that my surname begins with a ‘C’ is giving away too much. So fair enough…
Lets face it, no matter how crucial to the overall sound that a rhythm section may be, notwithstanding what keyboards or saxophone can bring to the party, if it’s rock music it’s going to be nothing without that guitar riff. And here’s a pretty good one, which I’m sure one particular ‘sweet child o’ mine’…
This week, Song Lyric Sunday’s tour of the main instruments of modern music reaches the bass guitar – often overlooked, or even unheard, but absolutely essential – you’d certainly miss it if it wasn’t there. I could name this tune in one, and I’m willing to bet that most people of a certain age and…
The Song Lyric Sunday tour of musical instruments reaches the drums this week. This wasn’t too difficult for me to decide on, although it certainly can’t have been easy providing the backing for the mercurial genius of Jimi Hendrix. By and large, though, Noel Redding (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums) did a pretty good job.…
“Goodness gracious…” Continuing the mini-series featuring various musical instruments, this week on Song Lyric Sunday it’s the turn of keyboards. There’s certainly no shortage of possibilities, but on this occasion I thought I’d go back to the very earliest days of rock and roll, as generally defined. This particular song surely needs no further introduction…
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday we’ve been challenged to highlight a song that prominently features a saxophone. I can imagine that the immediate thought for many Brits would have been Gerry Rafferty’s iconic ‘Baker Street’, but I feel constrained to try a bit harder. Andy MacKay was a founding and integral member of Roxy…
This week we’re looking for a song that featured on the long-running BBC TV programme Top Of The Pops (or on Ready, Steady Go, which was even cooler – and if the scope had been extended to the unmissable Old Grey Whistle Test, well, the sky would have been the limit). Anyway, there was never…
Bit overdue; apologies. This week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge is to post a song that has been inducted into America’s National Recording Registry. That’s not something us Brits/French are particularly familiar with, but I had a look anyway and struck gold almost immediately. The ‘class of 2024’ batch of inductees includes Jefferson Airplane’s album ‘Surrealistic…
For Song Lyric Sunday this week we’re looking for something eerie. A couple of things came to mind almost immediately – ‘There’s A Ghost In My House’ and, harking back even further – to the Saturday morning children’s request show on BBC radio – ‘Ghost Riders In The Sky’. Hmm. As the French say: “Oui,…
I cannot imagine that I was the only Brit of a certain age who, on seeing that this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge required a song that incorporated whistling, immediately thought ‘Roger Whittaker’. You can look him up if you like, but it’s not my thing at all. Nor, in normal circumstances, is Barry Manilow.…
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