Heavy Metal - Guy Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00h_B-czDx0 When Circus Archaos arrived at Highbury Fields and talked us through the show, we were excited by what was to come but also immediately worried by what might be left of it once the Council health and safety officers had their way. The show included clowns with chain-saws sawing off chunks of corrugated sheets worn like sandwich boards, a motor cycle driving through the audience and noisy smoke bombs going off beneath the stacked se
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egMWlD3fLJ8 Here is the complete text of a letter from a resident published in the Highbury Fields Association monthly newsletter for October 1989: "I was shocked to read, in the minutes of HFA's latest committee meeting, that there had been no complaints about the French circus which arrived on the Fields in September. Well, I want to complain about it. Loudly and publicly. Quite frankly, I'm not keen on circuses. And I'd heard enough about th
Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0vFdCdNQP4 Another American rock star who died in a plane crash was Ricky Nelson. The plane was...
Oh Boy! - the Crickets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwHrx0r0t2s Some of the happiest evenings of my younger years were spent singing songs at Reigate Rugby...
Rave On - Buddy Holly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUV-QxwlRM Back to the tragic Winter Dance Party of 1959. During the tour, Freddie Milano, one of the...
Automatically Sunshine - the Supremes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdWfO0lip4 Very, very sad yesterday to hear of the death of the wonderful Mary Wilson, one third of the...
Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGXFVOc5I8Q An excerpt from the great Dave Marsh's wonderful "The Heart of Rock and Soul": "The plane...
Come On, Let's Go - Ritchie Valens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLrnU1K2Wso On January 31st 1957, two aircraft, a Douglas DC-7B passenger plane and a US Airforce...
Not Fade Away - the Crickets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7iPbqNla6Q Sixty two years ago today, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens died in a plane...
Say Goodbye to Hollywood - Bette Midler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StGq-L7Phc Few Phil Spector produced stars went on to further success once they had left the fold of...
