FOOTBALL, FILMS and FABULOUS MUSIC AT THE DOMINION OF OPINION
With my teenage years advancing into the mid-1970s and in recognition of leaving childhood farther behind, on top of being allowed to stay up and see ‘Match of the Day’ on a Saturday night my parents added the concession of being…
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Van delivers ‘Here Comes The Night,’ Real Real Gone’ and ‘Moondance’ in quick succession to an audience aware they are listening to a true original.
Tubular Bells saw Mike Oldfield acclaimed as ‘the most important popular composer of the decade.’
NY – BBC 1971. In ‘Heart of Gold’ Neil sings ‘I’m getting old’ – somewhat ironic at the age of 27…..
Lack of record company support condemned ‘Pet Sounds’ to commercial failure, Brian Wilson seeing his masterpiece soon disappear from view.
On its Thursday publication day there was a time when the NME cover story began pub conversations that evening.
32 years in The Kinks brought no end to the antipathy between Ray and Dave. The Chuckle Brothers they were not.
To say THREE BILBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (director Martin McDonagh, 115 mins) is the most absorbing movie of the year goes nowhere close to doing it justice. It is also in turn the angriest and darkly funny, shockingly violent and intuitive film in recent memory and…
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For those who took rock music seriously, the ‘OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST’ was compulsive viewing.
Despite not having the intensity of legendary ‘Tommy’ shows propelled by Keith and The Ox, there is still more gusto than anyone has a right to expect.