Reading Under the Covers (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Today started off happier, thanks to all the birthday wishes I got via email and Facebook. I've had the Kinks on my mind the past few days, but couldn't find anything by them in our pared-down music collection (350 LPs & 500+ CDs). So I played T. Rex instead. Loud. After a very late breakfast I stretched out on the couch to read the Sunday Times to a 2-CD set of Chopin nocturnes. Op. 9 No. 2 is...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
If you take a train to Twickenham, to the west of London, and then walk down to the edge of the Thames, you will discover a magical place that feels as though it's from another era. People like to say that the Isle of Wight feels like Britain did in the Fifties, but Eel Pie Island feels like I imagine London did back in the early Sixties, when jazz and R&B were still the pulse beat of the city....
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
“Michael Jerome Browne gives me that kind of tingle like when I first heard Lead Belly and Big Bill Broonzy” - Long John Baldry
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Elton John: The Bitch Is Back is the perfect title for a new biography of the other Queen of England. Sponsored Topics: Elton John - Arts - Literature - Kids and Teens - Society and Culture
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - A new show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery in London captures swinging 1960s Britain in photographs from bopping to the Beatles at the Cavern to the psychedelic explosion that ushered in the 1970s.
Oreo Cookie Blues (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Hey welcome to mid month October, the air is colder, the leaves are changing colour, the Maple Leafs still suck .. So whats new.. nothing. No time to post, no time to research. History behind " It Ain't Easy ", I'd always thought it was a old blues song , who knew. Enjoy..... David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - It Ain't Easy Dave Edmunds - Rockpile - It Ain't Easy Long John Baldry - It Ain't Easy...
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Terrific Jimmy Barnes 'Driving Wheels' video clip Video from YouTube, by ducartech (originally posted 21 Feb 2009) - October 13, 2009: ... 'It's the Aussie truckers' anthem'. I can believe it. I said to Rod that his voice reminded me of Rod Stewart and Long John Baldry...
The Johnny Bacardi LiveJournal Show (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
07:21:05 : Good morning Twitterfriends! Music this AM: Long John Baldry's EVERYTHING STOPS FOR TEA. 08:09:26 : I'm gonna get that laptop back, I do believe! (Now I wish I hadn't deleted everything off of it...!) 08:12:09 : In other good news, it looks like I won this week's football pool! Now, I wait for the other shoe to drop. 08:23:01 : @alex_segura: Second the TELL ME WHY rec. And I don't know...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
For a special Monday morning edition of Cratedigger, Ken Shane revisits Rod Stewart's classic first solo album.
InTouchRadio.net (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Michael Dixon - Founder ITR-UK & Global Ricky Tick Club - W i n d s o r 1962 - 1967 Remembered Ricky Tick Poster The Days of Real Music & Live Gigs The Rolling Stones played The Tick 39-41 times in 18 months. Hi Michael It’s Friday afternoon and I go home in one hour for what should be a great weekend. As it is quietening down a little now I thought I would try to put a few jottings down...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
LGBT people born today: 1897 – Edmund Heines – German Nazi – Died 30th June 1934 1899 – Hart Crane – US Poet – Died 27th April 1932 1955 – Boris Dittrich – Dutch Politician / Activist 1955 – JW King – US Porn – Died 5th December 1986 1963 – Dorce Gamalama – Indonesian Singer / Actress / Presenter / Comedian 1969 – Cristian...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
Go away. What are you doing still here? Why won't you go? What is it about my presence which has you rooted to the spot? Certainly it can't be my sultry good looks and sense of style. So, why are you here, again? Oh, right. Ask the medium. You wanted a reading. And, if I give you one, you will leave, no? Glorious! Permit me. Here you are: You are caught up in being an intellectual, and like to assume...
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £4 on the door Art Themen (saxes) Alex Hutton (piano) Simon Thorpe (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) Art Theman, orthopaedic surgeon and illustrious saxman, remains a firm favourite on the British jazz scene with a pedigree as long as Southend Pier. Art was involved in the early British blues movement with Alexis Korner’s All Stars, Jack Bruce’s Band and Long John Baldry’s...
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
In 1960 two former class mates from Dartford in Kent met each other for the first time in years on a railway train. The two were Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who re-established their friendship and moved into a flat in the Chelsea area of London. Their shared love of rhythm and blues music led them to form a band called Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys with their mutual friend Dick Taylor. At this...
Billion Dollar Baloney (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
Vaio boogie-woogie Originally uploaded by dou_ble_you Don't try to Lay no Boogie Woogie on the KING OF ROCK N ROLL****************** ;PPP LONG JOHN BALDRY!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYB2gOy--xU This is one of the best story songs out there. While the song itself is pretty good, it’s the story that really puts it over the top. It’s an engaging story, told quite well, and very amusing in it’s...
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