Tag: Jimi Hendrix
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A Hendrix Discogswhack
Ever buy an album variant that wasn’t already on Discogs?
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Hard Times To Good Times: How Nile Rodgers and Chic Won Their Stripes
In 2020, we appreciate musical legends like Luther Vandross, Nile Rodgers and Roberta Flack. The internet, along with time and perspective, has allowed us to recognise and understand the impact of so many artists that might, at some points in their career, have been wildly unappreciated. In the 1980s, Roberta Flack isn’t knocking out classics…
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First Time I Got The Blues…
It wasn’t easy to expand one’s musical horizons in the eighties. Napster and Spotify really made life easier for us in the 21st century. Back then we didn’t have anyone to hold our hands and tell us “these are the good songs, these are the less good ones”. There was no one to advise that if…
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Ten Reasons Why Motörhead Should Be Inducted Into The Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame
Great news: Motörhead has a new single out, “Crying Shame”, which comes from “Aftershock” – Motorhead’s 21st studio LP. It’s yet another belter. But. It has been brought to my attention that there exists a terrible state of affairs that must be put right. No, I’m not talking about Keane’s last album. I’m talking about…
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“Roadie Writes Book” Shock (And It’s Good, Too): Queen Unseen by Peter Hince
Peter Hince was Freddie Mercury‘s roadie and has written a book of his experiences called Queen Unseen. It’s an entertaining first hand account, especially considering a roadie wrote it: it isn’t written in crayon which is a good start. Apparently it took three years for Peter Hince to finish his first book. Which is a…
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44 Years And Counting: ZZ Top Live At Hammersmith Apollo
For some people ZZ Top are seen as something fun that happened in the eighties, like the Sinclair ZX81, perms, Rubik’s Cubes and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Those synth-guitar albums “Eliminator“, “Afterburner” and “Recycler” (the latter actually released in 1990) produced some of MTV’s most memorable videos featuring legions of girls, three guys, two…
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A Free Rock n Roll Walking Tour of London
A Rock ‘n Roll Tour of London: Take a free walking tour of London’s best Rock n Roll Landmarks What with the Olympics of 2012, London is continuing to attract its fair share of visitors. But they haven’t all come to watch the elephant wrestling and beach judo or whatever it is that passes for…
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Hendrix Exhibition Hits London:
Seventy years since the birth of Rock’s greatest guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and hot on the heels of The Rolling Stones: 50 photography exhibition at Somerset House, comes another rock n roll show in the capital. It is good to see London giving tourists something to do in between queuing at the beer tent at the…
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Gered Mankowitz Photo Exhibition at Snap Galleries
There’s a great photo exhibition on in London with images of The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. If NME photographer Dean Chalkley has the best job in the world, then running him a close second is a man I met yesterday. Guy White is the owner of Snap Galleries, a specialist rock n roll photo…
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My Big Sister’s record collection: less cool than Cameron Crowe’s big sister’s record collection
Genesis were huge in the eighties (and indeed seventies). But with Nursery Cryme I got off to a bad start… In the film “Almost Famous” by Cameron Crowe, a love of rock music is instilled in him when he is bequeathed a number of albums by his older sister, Anita when she leaves home after…
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