50 éxitos de sencillos, dos horas y media de música diversa .. de calidad una colección extraordinaria que no puedes dejar de tener para escucharla y disfrutarla como tú te mereceres. 50 hit singles, two and a half hours of diverse music .. average quality but a decent collection! CD 1 01 – Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 02 – [...]
I've just been reading a list of the best selling singles in the UK, year by year, and it made for interesting, if somewhat slightly depressing, reading. During the four periods that British bands were supposedly at the forefront of music (mid-60's, Glam era, punk/new wave era and Britpop) the best selling singles were as far from those genres as possible, with the latter period being dominated by...
It Ain't Me. Babe. (Photo courtesy of Doubleday Books) Musician-band leader Paul Shaffer answered almost all of my questions during a recent hour-long interview to promote his memoir "We'll Be Here For The Rest of Our Lives (A Swingin'...
John Ramsey Miller Recently I listened to, “Breaking Through The Wall Of Sound,” an audiobook about Phil Spector, and it was a very sad listen. I’m sure most people are familiar with Spector, if not for his unprecedented unbroken string of number one hits in the fifties that lasted through the eighties, then because he was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson. Spector produced...
Very quick spoilers for tonight's "Modern Family" coming up just as soon as I ruin gay for you... While not up to the standards of last week's wonderful "The Incident," "Coal Digger" found several more amusing family combinations (Luke feuding with "uncle" Manny, Alex trying to bond with Grampa Jay, and, of course, Claire and Gloria being tense around each other),...
Simon Cowell (along with his fellow X-Factor judges) is getting his own cologne, and my guess is it’s going to smell like new money, chest hair, and the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody.” Granted, the man has managed to get America to go bananas for Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle, but those products have some commercial
Clearly, what the world needs is another blogger weighing in on the Kanye West/Taylor Swift controversy. But I have no interest in castigating Kanye - I don't pick my music based on the politesse of the artists. Instead, what struck me about this peculiar celebrity moment was the fact that I really enjoy both Kanye and Taylor and their immaculate pop confections. In the last few months, my brain has...
Patrick Swayze died yesterday after a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of fifty seven. But we all know that actors live on in their work, frozen forever at different stages of their lives and their careers. Some of them, like Swayze, are imprinted on our minds in roles that make them larger than life.
His fame stretched way beyond the pop-star realm, but let's not forget that the late Patrick Swayze's star turn in the 1987 Catskills romance Dirty Dancing also spawned the No. 3 hit "She's Like The Wind," a velvety, saxophone-enhanced ballad that, thanks to its superglossy '80s sound, was something of an outlier on the movie's oldies-heavy soundtrack. (It later inspired covers by the likes...
The actor projected a generosity of spirit in his film roles. The actor projected a generosity of spirit in his film roles. My favorite memory of Patrick Swayze came in 1990 with the romantic thriller "Ghost."
He attributed his skill to his early experience as a dancer which, he said, gave him ‘an understanding of rhythmic time’ As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock ’n’ roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely