Category: Music
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Rock Stars And Their Old Jobs…(Pt 2)
I set a quiz a few days ago asking you to match up rock stars with the old jobs they used to do before they were famous. Some were easier than others, but I enjoyed the comment hoping that Lemmy might have been a hotel bellhop. It might have made his movie even better… So…
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Ten Things You Didn’t Know About The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour
In a previous post I gave Five Reasons Why We Should Watch The Magical Mystery Tour. I missed out “idle curiosity”, “I don’t have anything better to do’ and “what’s the worst that could happen?” of course. So to while away the time between now and the release of the DVD, here are Every Record’s…
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Every Record Tells A Story Scores 100
Well – it’s my 100th post…. Blowers: “And with that quick single off the pads, that’s a century of posts from England’s Every Record Tells A Story. 100 up – and he’s looking delighted as he acknowledges the applause from this sell out Oval crowd” Aggers: “Yes Blowers, and what better way to celebrate than…
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What Is The Greatest Music Documentary of All Time?
What is the greatest music documentary ever made? The best ever film about music? The finest rock doc / rockumentary / biopic / live in-concert video / DVD or whatever else you want to call it? Yesterday’s announcement that (Don’t Look Back Director) DA Pennebaker will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, plus the forthcoming release…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10: How Blogging Has Landed Me A Part On A BBC Music Documentary
The Diamond Jubilee of 2012: Celebrating an ageing, old fashioned but much loved institution that for the most part unites Britain in dewy-eyed nostalgia, even though we know the idea of it itself is somewhat outdated and is hardly in keeping with Modern Britain. No, not the Queen or the Royal Family, I’m talking about…
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The Week in Music: Olympic Closing Ceremony and New Guns n Roses Shows…
The Olympic closing ceremony displayed the very best of British music, fashion, and police crowd control techniques. Whilst Elbow performed “Open Arms” and “A Day Like This”, the Metropolitan Police Kettling Display Team (or PoKeDiT, as they are better known) showed how to effectively shackle and detain over five thousand of the World’s fittest youths…
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Hell’s Bells – It’s The London 2012 Olympics!
(An Olympic Playlist and a look at the music of the London Olympics 2012…) Apparently, the London 2012 Olympics start today. Funny. There’s been nothing in the papers or on the news about it…* Not that it will all go seamlessly. The weather has been so bad recently that until this week we were in…
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The Most Innovative Rock Band in the Digital Age Is… Marillion?
Marillion became huge in 1985 in the UK when lead single from third album Misplaced Childhood, the lovely (and heart-on-sleeve raw) Kayleigh hit the charts. A newspaper discovered that the Kayleigh in the song actually existed – she was an ex-girlfriend of the lead singer called Kay (middle name Lee). There was no such thing…
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Rock of Ages: Here We Go Again
So where do you stand on Rock of Ages? A bunch of ‘80s rock tunes crow-barred into an unfeasible story, with way too much hairspray and make up? Hmmm. But then it worked with Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime… What could possibly go wrong? With Def Leppard having re-recorded their classic song Rock of Ages (from Pyromania)…
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Music Festivals and how to survive them…
With the festival season now underway, even Every Record is throwing caution to the wind (and rain, not to mention probable hail, sleet and the odd plague of locusts) and taking a Grand Tour of The Isle of Wight Festival. Of course, I realise I have pretty much tweaked the nose of providence by deciding…
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UK wins Eurovision….because no other country has ever got close…
Every year, millions of people tune in to see a singing contest which serves up a musical kaleidoscope of vomit. An über-camp spectacle of ridiculous pop wannabes looking for their fifteen minutes of fame in the hope that it will lead to a Europe-wide hit single and perhaps immortality, only to be instantly forgotten until…
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Guns n Roses at The Marquee Club
I have very few regrets in life…. Perhaps I should have danced with that pretty brunette at the school disco when I was ten years old instead of looking horrified. On reflection I didn’t take enough care when using that scalpel when twelve, resulting in an unscheduled trip to A&E. As a teenager that haircut…
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Every Record – The 50th Episode – And Best Bits So Far (and A Versatile Blogger Award)
Hey – remember when the Friends or Seinfeld writers needed to deliver two more shows to the network, but had run out of budget, so they cobbled together a story by playing highlights of old episodes introducing the clips by Chandler (or Kramer) saying ” Hey – remember when…..”? Hey – remember when you stumbled…
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Every Record Wins Kreativ Blogger Award!
Just three months in and already the awards are flying through the door. Well, not exactly flying, and that’s my own, inaccurate, use of the plural. But hey – a shiny Kreativ Blogger award statue now sits proudly on my desk. Metaphorically speaking. I don’t actually have a desk. Or a statue. To such giddy…
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Keith Moon “lined up for the Olympics”
There’s a great story reported by RollingStone.com that says the London Olympic Committee has approached Keith Moon’s agent to see if the drummer would like to take part in the summer’s festivities? It is of course refreshing that the Olympic Committee is not being ageist, and is prepared to overlook Moon’s past bad behaviour at…
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