Today’s song is another example of one I’ve grown to love more over the years. It isn’t that I disliked it during the 80s – I always thought it was a decent enough tune, though no more than that. However, these days, I appreciate just how much of a classic it truly is. I’m really […]
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Have you ever looked back on things you did or said when you were younger and thought to yourself ‘Jeez – what an absolute prick I was then’?! This is an embarrassingly obvious example of that for me. In my mid-teens, just before I sat my GCSEs, I was heavily into rock music. Sadly, as
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Pure pop music. An absolute artform in my humble opinion. All of us sing and hum to pop music, whether we care to admit it or not. Pure pop has been around since the 50s and despite being a genre that is much derided, writing a decent, catchy pop song is harder than most people
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Those who know me well will likely agree that it is criminal that it has taken sixteen posts before I get round to waxing lyrical about one of my all-time favourite bands – the incomparable Queen. The artist Do I really need to write about the history of Queen?! Ok, if I must. Here’s a
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My incredibly long shortlist of songs to address via this blog already contained a few Chris Rea tunes (in addition to the previously published Driving Home for Christmas) prior to the recent sad news of his death. So, in getting this blog back on track after a bit of a break, it felt right and
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When debate rages about the greatest music songwriting teams of all time, a slew of familiar names are inevitably offered. McCartney & Lennon; Jagger & Richards; Rodgers & Hammerstein; Bacharach & David; Leiber & Stoller; John & Taupin; Ashford & Simpson; Ulvaeus & Andersson; the Gibb brothers; Holland, Dozier, Holland. Unless the conversation includes really
Eleven posts in and it’s about time I go slightly off-piste with a song choice. This time, it’s a track which ignited a lifelong love of a particular genre for me – Country (and all variations on the theme). Getting on my soapbox a little, as with pure pop music, I’ve never understood the criticism
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Michael Jackson is going to figure heavily in this blog. Perhaps the biggest recording artist of the decade, his is one of the first names most people think of when mentioning 80’s music. He was a pop juggernaut; a behemoth; someone who always appeared to be more than just a musician. He was a cultural
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I have to begin this post by saying a huge ‘screw you’ to Bret Easton Ellis (who clearly will be one of the 3 people who reads these posts…). The author of American Psycho took a real swipe at Huey Lewis and the News by making the protagonist, Patrick Bateman, who was used to symbolise
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Yet another band who will feature heavily within this blog over time, I’m a huge U2 fan. They have an astonishing rate of consistency when it comes to releasing huge singles and albums, and it’s no surprise that they’ve sold more than 150 million albums across their 45-year career. Perhaps my first selection of theirs
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