This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘punk’. At least I didn’t have to resort to Google (other search engines are available) to determine what that was. In fact. punk was about the last musical ‘wave’ – for want of a better word – that really interested me. Come the late seventies, I had…
You know what they say: you can take the boy out of Liverpool, but you’ll never take Liverpool out of the boy. So, this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt of Mersey Beat is very much a home fixture for me. When I was eleven or twelve years old, I wanted to be Billy Fury. He…
Another confession this week, after admitting to my only hazy idea of what constituted Indy rock last time. When I saw that this week’s prompt was ‘power pop songs’ I thought perhaps Jim meant the kind of thing (not usually my thing) that is often referred to as a ‘power ballad’. Fortunately, however, I availed…
Confession time: when I saw that Jim’s theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday was Indy rock (or pop), I had to make sure that I really knew what it was. Of course I was familiar with the expression but a bit hazy on the details. 1980, after all, was getting pretty close to being…
When I saw a while ago that this week’s topic for Song Lyric Sunday was going to be Motown, I was immediately faced by a difficult choice between two obvious (for me, at any rate) candidates. I really couldn’t decide, so I was quite glad when Jim himself took first dibs on ‘You Can’t Hurry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Jim’s set us quite a tricky task for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday: ‘a song that reminds you of yourself’. That could go one of many ways: If pressed, I would probably have taken Leonard Cohens ‘Bird On The Wire’ (“I have tried in my way to be free”) but I’ve already deployed it for…
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