It couldn’t really be anyone but the Rolling Stones for the letter ‘R’. Not only were they around in my formative years but – against all odds – they’re still going strong, at least on the basis of their performance at Glastonbury in 2013. It’s one of my biggest musical regrets that I never got…
Let’s be honest, when you reach ‘Q’ in the Lexicon, there’s not an embarrassment of choice. I know nothing of Queens Of The Stone Age apart from their name, but happily there is one group that thoroughly deserves its place here: Queen. There’s a patrt of me that feels slightly guilty about liking Queen, although…
Helen is looking for a song about gambling for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Although my own gambling habit extends no further than the occasional lucky dip for the Euromillions Lottery (it’s about thirty yrears since I even had a flutter on the Grand National) I knew straight away what my choice was going to…
When I first saw that this week’s prompt from Helen was ‘Outer Space’ my immediate thought was to recycle the latest instalment in ‘My Music Lexicon’ series with Pink Floyd’s ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’. Even I’m not that idle, though, so here’s something that predates even that: from the 1967…
Beyond doubt, my number one, go-to music in my mid-teens was that of Pink Floyd. And I’m very glad that I’ve never grown out of it. I’ve seen Pink Floyd live four times, more than any other act. It would have been five, but like an idiot I gave away a ticket to a show…
‘Lying or Liars’ is this week’s theme for Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday. Two possibilities immediately – but too immediately – sprang to mind: The Eagles’ ‘Lyin’ Eyes’ and that Fleetwood Mac one. If I hadn’t featurd a Dylan song just a couple of weeks ago, I would probably have gone with ‘Most Likely You’ll Go…
‘Colours’ (sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to spell that word without the ‘u’ that belongs there) is the theme for this week. There are certainly plenty to choose from, even if you take out all the blacks, whites and greys. I have options from all of what you could call my usual suspects…
Around the time my age reached double figures, singles – 45s (ask your grandad) – cost 6/8d each, which in the new money is 33.33 recurring pence. In other words, you could get three records for a pound. And we did. Every couple of weeks, my brother and I were allowed to order three records…
“We thought we could sit forever in fun Our chances really was a million to one” Serendipity can be the strangest thing. Today, Helen has set us the theme of ‘Friendship’ for Song Lyric Sunday – and only yesterday I published a post about my five most-viewed posts, but only specified four of them. The…
This week for the Song Lyric Sunday challenge she hosts at her blog This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time, Helen has invited us to post the lyrics of a duet. My initial thought was the Jagger/Bowie version of ‘Dancin’ In The Streets’ but, let’s be honest, it isn’t that great. More to the…
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