Tag: Journey
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I’ll Be Alright Without You: An Appreciation.
Journey. Known in the UK almost exclusively for “Don’t Stop Believin’” – a song about a girl and a boy from a place – South Detroit – that weirdly doesn’t exist. A song recorded in 1981 that didn’t make the UK charts until 2009 following its appearance in an episode of X-Factor, (even its appearance…
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An Alternative Best of…Journey
Take A Midnight Train Going Anywhere With This Alternative Best of Playlist For AOR Kings: Journey… The idea that Journey might be pretty cool is clearly a difficult one to get your head around, but back in the eighties, Journey were the thinking AOR fan’s go-to band. REO Speedwagon and Kansas were too wimpy, Boston…
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Strangeways Here We Come: The Story of Scotland’s Greatest American Rock Band
I think the moment that I realised that the beard-and-brown-brogue-infested East London was no longer the hotbed of cooldom (yes, that is a word) I had always assumed it to be was when a friend told me he had been drinking in two well-known bars* in Hoxton and Shoreditch at 2am whilst the DJs played Atomic Kitten,…
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Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes at Hard Rock Calling
It was great to see Jimmy Barnes again – fronting Cold Chisel at Hyde Park. If you were wondering around Earls Court at 6pm on Friday night and saw tumbleweed drift across a veritable ghost town, I think I have the explanation. Cold Chisel, fronted by Jimmy Barnes, were playing at the Hard Rock Calling…
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