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Swedish superstars Abba are the band British music fans would most like to see get back together, it was revealed yesterday. Their reunion would be the most popular of any group which still has most of its original members, ahead of The Police, Pink Floyd and The Smiths. Abba's four members split up in 1982 having burst on to the scene by winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. But their popularity...
What a piece of work is Rand! Photo by Tim Fennell. Let's not lie, maybe some of us went to see that four-hour, unabridged Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet back when we were in grade six, then wore out our VHS copies of the perhaps over-the-top film, to-be-or-not-to-be-ing along with Ken. Maybe we've also seen rather a lot of different Hamlets on stage, in film, and on Shakespeare Monologue Day in...
HIT YOU WITH A LITTLE STRAP Once part of DD's vinyl collection, now existing as ripped home CD. Two minute long song, "Teacher," off Christ Child's Hard. Old citations via Chuck Eddy on I Love Music's Rolling Hard Rock chat thread: Hard [Buddah, 1978] This is not punk rock. This is an ambitious, anonymous bunch of heavy metal pros who thought it might be timely to use the words "punk"...
After the Holly Park party, I'm in the Safeway at Othello w/ Johnny Rotten Shoes texting with Spaghetti: To: Spaghetti Did u break the story? We'll fawn. Nov 20, 2009 9:13 PM From: Spaghetti It was me and chs that have all the good details Nov 20, 2009 9:13 PM I take light rail to Westlake and walk home (my bike's still locked up downtown), and I stop in at Barnes & Noble and buy the Bill Simmons...
This is a painting by Gee Vaucher in 1980, which was produced for a record sleeve for the Crass single Bloody Revolutions. The painting parodies a famous picture of the Sex Pistols with the heads replaced by those of The Queen, The Pope The Statue of Liberty and Margaret Thatcher. The piece is entitled "Who do they think they are fooling? -You?" According to Mark Vallen of www.art-for-a-change.com,...
Musically, this is exactly the same as Helen Love’s previous Radio Hits, Shifty Disco Girl, Does Your Heart Go Boom and the Peel favourite Girl About Town. And, like most other Helen Love songs, it mentions The Ramones, discos, beaches, and a story about a boy and girl in love. But Debbie Loves Joey is a culmination of everything that is really quite good about Helen Love’s other songs,...
John Lydon has confirmed that Public Image Ltd will record new material in the near future – if they can raise enough cash on their forthcoming tour. The punk band, formed by Lydon after the demise of the Sex Pistols, recently reformed for five UK dates in December.
It's always a good day for music fans when John Lydon is in the news. Hell, it's a good day for everybody, especially those of us who enjoy wacky stories on the internet. Most of the recent hype concerning the Sex Pistols/Public Image Limited vocalist has been as a result of his appearances on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Judge Judy, and a now-notorious butter commercial. Apparently the...
OK--students in my cultural studies course had a bit of a crisis because half of their presentation group dropped out. They are doing a presentation on the Goth subculture and the two members that dropped out were covering the music. So I offered to help out with an introduction to the roots of the Goth sound (as a non-expert)... here is what I came up with, anyone want to suggest additions? 1970s:...
Rod Stewart says no to a Faces reformation. But a certain ginger soul lothario might yet take his place ... After decades of wavering, Rod Stewart has formally said no to reuniting with the Faces, according to keyboardist Ian McLagan. The group's three other surviving members are now "seriously talking about touring" with other singers, including ... Simply Red's Mick Hucknall. For years,...
This time last week I headed down to the opening of the Destroy exhibition at Phillips De Pury ...............which resulted in a double bonus as I discovered the secondary current exhibition there............MUSIC..........which is a massive collection of contemporary art, design, editions, photographs and memorabilia from the music industry. The first piece hanging is a Warhol rainbow screen print...
One of punk rock's many subgenres (puck rock, if you will), this is a rollicking testament to a rough and tumble life on the ice Were he alive today, Charles Darwin might have had a thing or two to say about punk rock's impressive adaptability. Thanks, perhaps, to its simple formula – take three chords, just add attitude – the genre has found its way into all manner of cultural nooks and...
Punk legend John Lydon says Public Image Limited (PiL)'s forthcoming tour has been funded entirely by Country Life butter. The former Sex Pistols star has hit back...
TWFT, asleep in the backseat, New Jersey Turnpike, 11/8/09, 11:00 PM From: CIA Like your prediction . Even if you waffle to C4 Nov 2, 2009 6:13 PM To: CIA Oh my! I don't tho. I say my gut is w mcg. And ask him if he's sure about that. I'm telling you: mal support top heavy. Mcg has the peeps. Peeps = numbers. Nov 2, 2009 6:13 PM ••• From: Nicky on Piano Watching all the presidents men...
Annotated as an "outtake"on the 2002 repackage, I can hear nothing here differing significantly from their definitive LP version. The most recent accession, of course, to the Dukedom of Wessex is none other than 'our' Prince Edward; a tiresome brat harboring melodramatic delusions of grandeur. A dribbling imbecile racing from one knockout to the next. No Tad 'behemoth', he. More a sneering...
Bob Dylan's OTHER Christmas Album (!!!) from Jim Linderman blog DULL TOOL DIM BULB in the Mid 1970's, around the time of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album, tape traders and fans of bootleg records such as the Basement Tapes were frantic about a set of tracks rumored to be a Bob Dylan Christmas Album. It even had a title "Snow Over Interstate 80" and track listings. Not only that, it was rumored he...
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