Song Lyric Sunday: Name that tune – ‘Paranoid’

This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is songs with recognisable intros. There is a TV show that runs at teatime on Saturdays (when it’s on) on the BBC and it’s called ‘The Hit List’. Its basis premise is that four teams of two – whether members of the public or ‘celebrities’ that I’ve never…

Song Lyric Sunday: Stoned – ‘If Not For You’

Our task this week, should we choose to accept it, is to post a song by an artiste who has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. magazine. When I was at university at the beginning of the seventies, I had a subscription to Rolling Stone. Obviously, back then it was a print subscription and…

Song Lyric Sunday: Offspring – ‘Turn Me On’

I must admit that the prompt for Song Lyric Sunday this week had me stumped for a long time: something by children of famous musicians. The only ones I could come up with were Julian Lennon and Liza Minnelli, neither of which I found particularly inspiring. Then it came back to me that the singer…

Song Lyric Sunday: Hugs – ‘Embraceable You’

What a lovely topic Jim has set us for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday – hugs, kisses and embraces. Although you’ll never shift me from my first love of ‘classic’ and psychedelic rock,I can still recognise a great tune from other and earlier genres and this standard fits the bill perfectly – especially when, as…

Song Lyric Sunday: Sweetness – ‘Honey Pie’

Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about the sweet stuff – sugar, candy, chocolate and so on. If it could ever be said that there are deep cuts from albums by The Beatles, this little confection from The White Album could qualify. Produced in homage to the ‘flapper’ style of the twenties and thirties,…