FOOTBALL, FILMS and FABULOUS MUSIC AT THE DOMINION OF OPINION
TWENTY GREAT ALBUMS from 1967: By now the album had superseded the single as the vehicle through which an artist would most express their visions and true ambition. Few would have predicted the long-player to have travelled so far in such a…
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It was hard for me to stifle a laugh when I read reports of Bob Geldof castigating the audience at a rock festival last year for what they were wearing – taking a fuming dislike apparently to the Primark attire…
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12 Alternative Christmas Songs: Hark an angel sings – Linda Ronstadt (‘River’)
The best twenty albums of 1971: HIGH WATER MARK – The Who & ‘Who’s Next’
With the death of actor Gordon Kaye earlier this year various television channels have been showing repeats of ”Allo Allo’!’ the situation comedy in which Kaye took the starring role. It was a programme I never found remotely funny so if you…
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This is 1977: High Point: DAVID BOWIE: Low;
WE KNOW WHAT IT IS – AND WE LIKE IT, LIKE IT, YES WE DO……………… LONG LIVE ROCK – The Who; IT’S ONLY ROCK ‘N ROLL – The Rolling Stones; ROCK ‘N ROLL NEVER FORGETS – Bob Seger & The…
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High Water Mark 1971: THE WHO – acclaimed by Rolling Stone magazine (and Del Trotter).
TWENTY SONGS ABOUT THE ODDITIES OF OUTER SPACE: SPACE ODDITY – David Bowie; MR SPACEMAN – The Byrds; ROCKET MAN – Elton John; MAN on the MOON – REM; SUPERSONIC ROCKET SHIP – The Kinks; ECLIPSE – Pink Floyd; THEY…
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