Tag: Tour
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Brian Wilson Brings Pet Sounds To Southend
It is fifty years since Brian Wilson famously set the young Paul McCartney’s hair on end with the release of Pet Sounds. It was a remarkable, almost impossible achievement – the musical equivalent of you or me writing a maths equation that might get Professor Stephen Hawkins to up his game. A sequence of music…
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David Gilmour – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
I know that bucket lists are supposed to contain bungee jumps, trips to Pacific Islands and conjugal visits with film stars, but for a good few thousand people last night, seeing David Gilmour play “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” pretty much topped all that. Last night was the second of five dates of David…
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Sweet Billy Pilgrim At 93 Feet East: Review
It’s a crazy world we live in. For example, egotistical celebrities known for the craziest rants and most bizarre behaviour are filling our TV screens announcing they are running for President of the USA. Crazy. But that’s enough about Donald Trump. More baffling and crazy even than the behaviour of the likes of Trump, Kanye…
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A Recovering Lemmy Braves It Out As Motörhead Play Hyde Park
Let’s face it, even if he had lived fast and died young, he’d never have had a good looking corpse, so it’s just as well Lemmy has been as good at Grim Reaper-dodging as anyone. Having left Hawkwind ostensibly not because of musical differences but because of drug differences (they took weed, Lemmy took speed),…
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Michael Katon, a UK Tour, Two Letters and a Special Cat
Have you ever written to a musician? What happened? Unless you are currently enjoying supper with Bono, I suspect the answer is “not very much”. Not that I would generally blame the musicians. I’m sure at least sixty percent of all letters to pop stars are written in green crayon and contain uncomfortable adolescent confessions…
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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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