Tag: Paul Weller

  • Listen Here: The Best Beatles Cover Versions: Part 3

    Listen Here: The Best Beatles Cover Versions: Part 3

    This is the third and final chapter in the “Without The Beatles” series – a chance to hear some of the best Beatles cover versions around while reading the “liner notes” below to give you a little more context around what you are listening to. As before, you can hear all these tracks – which…

  • The Jam: A New London Exhibition

    The Jam: A New London Exhibition

    All About The Young Idea: A Somerset House Exhibition All About The Jam If you are walking down the Strand over the next month and see a number of men of a certain age looking misty eyed and wistful, you may be forgiven for thinking the spirit of romance must be in the air. What…

  • An Anniversary…

    An Anniversary…

    One year ago to the day, Every Record Tells A Story published its first post, an unassuming story about how I won my first ever record in a disco dancing competition when I was eleven years old. The record I won was by The Beatles and started me off on a voyage of musical discovery…

  • 2012 In Pictures

    2012 In Pictures

    As 2012 comes to a close, here are a few concert pictures that I took which best capture the year from my perspective: Just to show that this blog is not just about me making jokes about my favourite musicians, I thought I would share these images. From festivals in The Isle of Wight and…

  • Ray Davies is Something Else – Live at Southend on Sea

    Ray Davies is Something Else – Live at Southend on Sea

    Ray Davies live in concert at Southend on Sea We still walk alongside legends. Sometimes it seems we just don’t appreciate it. Alongside contemporaries Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Pete Townsend, there stands one of the greatest songwriters in rock history who is still impressing audiences wherever he plays. Whilst some might expect Ray Davies…

  • Paul Weller Covers ‘Birthday’ For Sir Paul McCartney’s 70th

    Paul Weller Covers ‘Birthday’ For Sir Paul McCartney’s 70th

    A quick post to honour Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday and let you know about the song that Paul Weller has recorded in honour of it…. This coming Monday (June 18th) and for one day only fans will be able to download Paul Weller’s cover of The Beatles’ Birthday which he has recorded to honour the 70th birthday of Sir Paul McCartney, via iTunes. The original Birthday…

  • Paul Weller Live at The Camden Roundhouse 2012

    Paul Weller Live at The Camden Roundhouse 2012

    It’s been a Mod sort of March. First was the premiere of Dean Chalkley‘s short film “The New Faces“, (see my previous Dean Chalkley post) then Paul Weller plays five sold-out nights at the lovely Camden Roundhouse. Dressed, er, modishly in suit and tie au knot grande, Weller played the whole of his new album…