A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
‘They got the shapely bodies, and the Steely Dan T-shirts’ – fantastic cut from 1973’s Countdown to Ecstasy album made even better by young Rick Derringer’s slide guitar. And here’s … Continue readingSteely Dan: Show Biz Kids
Live version of the very strange John Entwistle song from the 1966 LP A Quick One. The heckling comes from Keith Moon.
One of his loveliest songs, from the 1977 album Before and After Science.
We started this Rainbow seasonette with a John Martyn version; to finish it here’s a Hawaiian legend’s take on the song.
From their brilliant 1974 album Casablanca Moon. And here’s an alternative version with Anthony Moore more to the fore.
Live version from 2017, half a century after it appeared on Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Fascinating live performance in Amsterdam of the minimalist classic. The music starts at the four-minute mark.
Always room for a Muppet on this website.
I featured the Leo Kottke version of this last year – here’s the geezer who wrote it.
Kicking off a brief season of Rainbow songs, here’s a live 1986 version of the song from the Wizard of Oz which appeared on his Sapphire album two years earlier.