THE VILLAGE PEOPLE – ‘The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society.’
‘Village Green’ is renowned as the greatest album most people have never heard, Ray Davies labeling it ‘the most successful failure of all time.’
Tag Archive: Rolling Stones
ETCHED IN STONE – How the STONES have kept on ROLLING……….
The first Commandment of rock music – you never bet against the Rolling Stones.
THE SINGER, THE SONG and STATE OF CALIFORNIA – Two BBC 4 Music programmes send out confused messages.
NY – BBC 1971. In ‘Heart of Gold’ Neil sings ‘I’m getting old’ – somewhat ironic at the age of 27…..
STOP (the) PRESS: Farewell to the print edition of the NME
On its Thursday publication day there was a time when the NME cover story began pub conversations that evening.
STAR MAN – The Golden Years of David Bowie
Beyond dispute is that nobody was working at the same level of artistic creativity as Bowie……
HELLO 1967 – GOODBYE 2017: Twenty Great Albums from a monumental year for rock.
TWENTY GREAT ALBUMS from 1967: By now the album had superseded the single as the vehicle through which an artist would most express their visions and true ambition.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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SHOP WORN – Bob Geldof gives his audience a dressing down……………………….
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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EVERYONE’S A WINNER: The best twenty albums of 1971 – the greatest year for rock
The best twenty albums of 1971: HIGH WATER MARK – The Who & ‘Who’s Next’
IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR – in 1971 rock music reaches its peak.
High Water Mark 1971: THE WHO – acclaimed by Rolling Stone magazine (and Del Trotter).
PRECIOUS MOMENTS – Twenty Songs That Watch The Clock
I LOOKED AT MY WATCH AND IT SAID – ROCK N’ ROLL TIME (Roger McGuinn). MINUTE BY MINUTE – The Doobie Brothers; SIX O’CLOCK – Ringo Starr; FIVE MINUTES – Gretchen Peters/FIVE MINUTES – The Stranglers (Different Songs); NINE TO…
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