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…
This week, Jim has set us the task of featuring a song from a band you wished were still together. You ought not to be at all surprised that my choice was the Grateful Dead. If only…. I’ve featured quite a few Grateful Dead songs over the years that I’ve been contributing to Song Lyric…
This week, Jim wants a song from an artiste who made the ultimate career move of dying at the age of 27. There are many more than I thought. Coincidence of course, but a little eerie all the same. I was aware of the usual triptych of my generation – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and…
Jim’s given us a free hand for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday and that gives me an opportunity to exorcise my current earworm – although fortunately it’s one I don’t mind having at all. It’s many years since I last heard this, but it cropped up (on Twitter, I think) recently. This song, recorded in…
Apart from the Bee Gees and Kylie Minogue, AC/DC is perhaps Australia’s most famous modern musical export – although of course there are many more equally worthwhile candidates. AC/DC rather remind me of John Wayne’s explanation of why he liked John Ford films (other than the obvious reason that he was in them): ‘he keeps…
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