A Liddle means a lot
FOR quite a while now the only reason my wife and I have taken the Sunday Times(yes, you take it, like foul-tasting medicine) has been Rod Liddle. His attacks on the … Continue readingA Liddle means a lot
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Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus K618
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music that I know. I was fortunate enough to sing it in my school choir, and I have asked for it … Continue readingMozart: Ave Verum Corpus K618
The Who: Magic Bus (Live at Leeds)
I was given the Live at Leeds album for my 21st birthday. About a year earlier I saw The Who at my university, when they mainly did stuff from Tommy. Extraordinary, but I’m afraid … Continue readingThe Who: Magic Bus (Live at Leeds)
Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Classic piece of misery from Yoakam’s 1993 album This Time. It features in two movies, Chasers and the excellent Red Rock West. Sorry if you get a tedious advert first; … Continue readingDwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Grand Hotel
IN the days before television, many hotels and restaurants offered live performances of light music by trios, quartets or slightly larger ensembles. Usually the room would be adorned with palms … Continue readingGrand Hotel
Johnny Jenkins: I Walk on Gilded Splinters
Brilliant, swampy, let-there-be-drums classic by Jenkins, the band leader who first hired Otis Redding to sing in his group, the Pinetoppers. Taken from the 1970 album Ton Ton Macoute.
The Marbles: Only One Woman
The Marbles were cousins Graham Bonnet and Trevor Gordon, born in Skegness but Gordon grew up in Australia. Only One Woman,notable for Bonnet’s powerful vocals, was written for them by Barry, … Continue readingThe Marbles: Only One Woman
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 10 in G major, Op 96
I studied the first movement of this for music O-level in 1965. Beethoven wrote it in 1812, when he was 42. He dedicated it to his patron Archduke Rudolph Johannes Joseph … Continue readingBeethoven: Violin Sonata No 10 in G major, Op 96
Ivan: Real Wild Child
Hard to imagine anyone sounding less like a real wild child than this 1958 release. Iggy Pop was still singing it 60 years later.
Brenda Lee: Losing You
Losing You, written by Jean Renard and Carl Sigman, was Brenda Lee’s last Top Ten pop hit in America, reaching No 6 in 1963. It got to No 10 in Britain. … Continue readingBrenda Lee: Losing You