Every Record Tells A Story
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Inspiral Carpets Secret Gig at Pretty Green, Covent Garden
Secret gigs are great fun, even in the days of Facebook and Twitter. There’s the uncertainty – is it genuine? Or will I stand in line for an hour for no discernible reason until I am forced to skulk off before anyone notices? Will it really be the band I think it will be? The…
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The Bowie Bet part 4 – Cartoon Covers are Hunky Dory
The Challenge: I have bet that I can buy a full set of David Bowie‘s albums (in their original vinyl and in excellent condition with all the inserts) from The Man Who Sold The World to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). That’s fourteen albums in fourteen days. Total budget: £100. The loser has a heavy penalty:…
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The Bowie Bet part 3 – The Man Who Sold His Trousers
The story so far: I have bet my friend Chris that I can buy a full set of Bowie‘s albums (in their original vinyl and in excellent condition with all the inserts) from The Man Who Sold The World to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). That’s fourteen albums in fourteen days. Total budget: £100. The…
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The Bowie Bet part 2 – Buying Ziggy Stardust On Vinyl
Shopping for Bowie Vinyl In Manchester’s Record Shops – and How To Buy Ziggy Stardust The story so far: I have made a bet that I can buy a full set of Bowie’s albums (in their original vinyl versions – and in excellent condition with all the inserts) from The Man Who Sold The World…
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The Bowie Bet: Buying Bowie’s Vinyl Records
Just how cheaply can you buy a full set of Bowie‘s ’70’s vinyl records? I was having a chat with my friend Chris the other night. He is the one who bet me I couldn’t buy The Beatles on vinyl for less than the cost of the recent box set. He would have won but…
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Bowie’s Artwork: Exclusive Interview With The Man Behind The Concept
On the release of David Bowie’s new album “The Next Day”, Every Record Tells A Story is delighted to publish an exclusive interview with the man behind the artwork of this excellent album, 54 year old painter and decorator Reg Minty. We met up with Reg at a run down pub in Grimsby, where he…
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Wilko Johnson Farewell Tour – Live At Koko
Wilko Johnson – the former Dr Feelgood guitarist – announced in January this year that he had terminal cancer, and that he wouldn’t be undergoing chemotherapy to extend his life a little. He said he felt “vividly alive”, and that he would be playing a few “farewell” shows, if his health would allow, and announced…
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Why I Thought Pink Floyd Was The Stupidest Band In The World
Time for another confession. As the headline rather screams out, I used to think Pink Floyd was the stupidest band of all time. I don’t mean slightly silly, or partly potty. I mean really stupid. Stupider than the guy who told Goliath that the little kid with a sling was a terrible shot. Dumber than…
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Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wizard of Oz
On 2 March 1973, Pink Floyd released ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘ onto an unsuspecting world. The album spent 741 consecutive weeks in the US charts, just one week less than it took Wayne Rooney to learn how to spell ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘. The concept for ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ centred around…
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Steven Tyler: “Like An Au Pair Girl Doing The Hoovering”
When Aerosmith had toured the UK in 1976 they hadn’t gone down well. The gigs were promoted with the slogan “Hey Britain, wake up! This is America’s greatest rock n roll band!” Britain, of course loves to be told that it has arrived late to something by Americans. Cough*WW2*Cough. Lemmy remembers, “I went to the…
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Aerosmith: That “Difficult Eighth Album”
The re-birth of Aerosmith in the late eighties appeared to happen overnight. However, Done With Mirrors was the comeback album that didn’t quite get them where they wanted to be. It took a couple of attempts before the nation was singing Love In An Elevator… Back in 1985 there didn’t seem to be many bands…
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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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An Alternative Best of Aerosmith Playlist
With 2013 now a month old, it feels were are overdue a new Aerosmith Best Of / Compilation album. Aerosmith Greatest Hits CDs are almost as numerous as Iron Maiden live albums, Mariah Carey tantrums or former members of The Sugababes. Sadly Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits, Oh Yeah, Big Ones, Essential Aerosmith and all the other…
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Sorry, Frampton Comes Alive, But The Best Album of 1976 Was Aerosmith’s Rocks
As expected, Aerosmith‘s ‘Rocks’ did not feature heavily in the BBC’s The Great Album Showdown – a show that sought to identify the Finest Rock Album of All Time. Yet in my estimation it was certainly worthy of a second look… The rise of Aerosmith in the USA in 1975 was stratospheric. Sales of ‘Toys…
Every record tells a story 