Tag: debut
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McCartney
Part two of a series. To recap, I have a friend who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Song, the one about no man’s land at Christmas, and Ebony and Ivory. My job is therefore to share with him some of McCartney’s…
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The Search for Kraftwerk’s Ralf and Florian
It’s 1971, and Kraftwerk are playing on German TV show The Beatclub following the release of their debut album, Kraftwerk 1. The trio feature the hirsute rock god Michael Rother on gold Les Paul guitar, Klaus Dinger in white, angel-winged shirt flailing away on his drum kit, and a dungaree-clad Florian Schneider on jazz flute…
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Sliding Doors: The Origin of Roxy Music
Brian Eno was waiting for the tube at Maida Vale. A train stopped, leaving Brian equidistant between two carriages. He didn’t know it, but his destiny awaited. Enter one carriage, and he would become a pop star, an innovator of ambient recording, and eventually collaborate on some of David Bowie’s most remarkable albums, using a…
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A New Year, A New Band: Shame
2018. A new year, a fresh start. A chance to shed the winter coat that you unwittingly piled on when you bought, and then consumed, those second and third tubs of Heroes and Quality Street over the festive season. It’s a chance to move more, eat less, make resolutions, quit things, start other things, fix…
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How To Tell If That Rolling Stones LP In Your Attic Is Worth £1,000…
My copy of The Rolling Stones’ debut album. The change of colour on the left is where the laminate has peeled away slightly. Well, it is over 50 years old…. Or, Five Reasons Why You Should Buy The Rolling Stones’ First Album on Vinyl… Or, part two of a quest to discover whether it’s worth…
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The Black Crowes’ First London Show: The Marquee, 1990
The Marquee Club, London. June 1990. I was there to see a band I had only ever read about, who were on the tiny stage just three feet in front of me, lean as rakes, hungrily playing up a storm on their debut UK show. The band was The Black Crowes and they had released…
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