When I was eleven or twelve years old, I wanted to be Billy Fury. He could sing, he was handsome, he made the girls scream. It was a very competitive field, British male soloists back then. Let’s be honest, everyone wanted to be the British Elvis. There’s no doubt that the top dog was Cliff…
Got to be honest, ‘E’ hasn’t proved to be the easiest instalment of My Music Lexicon. It’s not a completely fallow field, of course, but I’m trying to keep it honest so resisted the temptation to feign much interest in Echo and The Bunnymen, the Eurhythmics or even The Eagles. `However, this exercise is meant…
D? Dylan of course. It’s really hard to imagine anyone with an interest in music and a serious side to their personality hitting their teens in the mid-sixties who wouldn’t go for Bob Dylan as a major influence. I’m certanly no exception. I was never an enthusiast for the traditional folk music that Billy Connolly…
Until I was about fifteen years old I never realised that you could make music up as you go along. I mean, who knew? Virtually all my exposure to music was through records or the radio – which just played records. ‘Pop’ music came in neat two and a half minute packages that always sounded…
C’mon now: I was born and grew up on Merseyside. My age reached double figures in the early sixties. The B in my Music Lexicon could only possibly be The Beatles. There again, it’s pretty much beyond me how anyone could fail to pick out The Beatles in any review of their popular musical tastes…
I confess to having been rather behind the curve on Bryan Adams. In fact I don’t think I’d even heard of him – or anything by him – until his big, gloopily sentimemtal hit ‘Everything I Do’ got a huge amount of radio play and spent 16 consecutive weeks at Number One in the UK…
Isn’t it handy that there are 26 letters in the alphabet and 52 weeks in the year? If my arithmetic is correct (it is), that means one letter for every fortnight. So here’s the plan. Every two weeks, working my way through the alphabet, I’m going to publish a post about a group or artiste that…
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