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…
Jim’s chosen the broad theme of ‘sizes’ for Song Lyric Sunday this week. He’s also exercised his ‘droit de seigneur’ by getting first dibs on what would have been my choice: George Harrison’s ‘Blue Jay Way’, from Magical Mystery Tour.. However, I think this, from what is commonly known as the White Album, is a…
It didn’t take too much…er, thought…to come up with a song to match Helen’s theme of ‘Think’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Not surprisingly, Arethe Franklin’s ‘Think’ sprang to mind first, but ‘oui, mais non’ as they say in France. A close second, however, is this classic from Cream, featuring L’Angelo Misterioso – a…
Like most people, pretty much all my musical tastes were formed in my teenage years. And since, as is well known, teenagers know everything, it was a bit of a challenge to come up with something that matches this week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday: “post a song that helped teach you something new (something…
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