Category: Music
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It’s The 40th Birthday of Alan Partridge’s Favourite Beatles Album!
Ben: I didn’t know you were into music. I know you’re a DJ, but I’ve heard your show. Alan: Yeah, I like all the bands. I’ve got a broad taste, from the Brit-pop bands like UB40, Def Leppard, right back to classic rock, like Wings. Ben: Who’s Wings? Alan: They’re only the band The Beatles…
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“David Bowie Is”…An Amazing Exhibition at The V&A
Bowie’s exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum recorded the most advanced bookings in the museum’s history with 26,000 tickets sold a month before the exhibition was due to open, and 42,000 a week before – some ten times more advance tickets than any prior exhibition at the V&A. Truly “it’s the best selling show…”.…
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David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita at Snap Gallery, Piccadilly, London – Review
David Bowie Exhibition by Sukita at Snap Gallery, Piccadilly Arcade, London Working in London. The Rat Race. Typified by long hours, the travelling on packed tube trains full of fully-caffeinated and slightly wired Londoners who possess the patience of a two year old Mariah Carey in a sweet shop, the smog (let’s keep that one…
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The Brit Awards 2013
On the Brit Awards tonight we got to see the great and the good of British Pop. It’s a wonderful thing. In past years we have witnessed Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood demonstrate the World’s Worst TV Presenting, Jarvis dissing Michael Jackson’s awful Christ imitation and Geri Halliwell wearing a very small union jack dress.…
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When Rock Star Wives Fight: How Aerosmith Broke Up Over Spilled Milk And Room Service Bills
Aerosmith‘s 2012 “comeback” album Music From Another Dimension! received very mixed reviews. (When I say “mixed”, that’s a euphemism for “it was widely dismissed by the critics”). Perry and Tyler appeared on the Jonathan Ross chat show in the UK to promote it and resembled a couple of sulky teenagers after an argument over a…
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The Flaming Lips Get Busy: Bohemian Rhapsody, Stone Roses and New Song ‘Sun Blows Up Today’
The Flaming Lips will be back in 2013 with new album ‘The Terror’ and they have released this cheeky video for ‘Sun Blows Up Today’ a song that may not be on the album, but is bright, cheerful and catchy – or at least as bright and cheerful as a song can be that talks…
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The Byronic Man Hosts An Every Record Q&A
Every Record Tells A Story Hits America! OK, it’s not quite that glamorous. I have written a piece for one of my favourite fellow bloggers, the excellent and very funny Byronic Man. In his own words, The Byronic Man is described as “The Best Humor Blog in America That I, Personally, Write”. The Byronic Man…
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A Quentin Tarantino Spotify Playlist
Just a quick post today to try something new: A Spotify Playlist. The more observant readers amongst you will have noticed that I put a Spotify link at the bottom of each post I write, to allow those who have a Spotify account to easily play the record I am writing about. I have no…
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Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino’s Latest Mix-Tape
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained – his eighth film – is entertaining and challenging cinema audiences across the world. It also has a great soundtrack. Smart dialogue, surprising twists, occasional cruelty, great tunes… Yes – it’s another one of my blog posts… I saw Django Unchained the other day; I won’t spoil the plot for you…
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An Anniversary…
One year ago to the day, Every Record Tells A Story published its first post, an unassuming story about how I won my first ever record in a disco dancing competition when I was eleven years old. The record I won was by The Beatles and started me off on a voyage of musical discovery…
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What Are Your Earliest Musical Memories?
My earliest musical memories continue with a chant on a bus for one of Britain’s most popular boy-bands, many years before the likes of One Direction… Part 1 of this trip down memory lane is here. It was funny watching the BBC documentary on Friday night (Top of The Pops: The Story of 1978) that…
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My Ten Earliest Musical Memories – and Top of The Pops: The Story of 1978
What are your earliest musical memories? I overheard someone talking enthusiastically on their mobile the other day about how seeing Steps would bring back early childhood memories. Steps. I’ll leave aside for the moment how that would bring back little more than a cold sweat as I awake from a nightmare of the full horror…
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2012 In Pictures
As 2012 comes to a close, here are a few concert pictures that I took which best capture the year from my perspective: Just to show that this blog is not just about me making jokes about my favourite musicians, I thought I would share these images. From festivals in The Isle of Wight and…
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Home Taping Is Killing Music – Further Tales of Taping Off The Radio
Another Home Taping Confession: The Friday Rock Show And Why Record Companies Always Put The Best Tracks At The Start Of The Album. Whilst I have confessed to my musical piracy when taping off the radio – indeed the BBC have broadcast the tapes to prove my guilt – the extent of my taping songs…
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Rock Star Quotes Quiz
Rock Star Quotes can be fun to look back on… OK, so Christmas is over, but perhaps you have some time off, and there’s a quiet morning stretching ahead of you. Or maybe you are sitting through the Christmas special of Downton Abbey and wondering why your own aged relatives’ attempts at humour are never…
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