It Ain't Necessarily So - Bronski Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6ZWVlhU8k While I was part of the Islington arts department, we also teamed up with the other three...
My Man's Gone Now - Cynthia Clarey / Nina Simone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-03NIC8Lw - Cynthia Carey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIK4KhPPO0 - Nina Simone In the summer of...
The Magdalene Laundries - Emmylou Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s99vu_LtUB8 Denise, Jane, Amelia, Maria, Gloria, Magnolia, Annie, Sarah, Oonagh, Patricia, Siobhan,...
Maria - Blondie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwodQdM4hvk Not many groups look and sound as fresh as they did first time round, 20 years later, but in...
Amelia - Joni Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTDoi9JQiY A true griot, poet and storyteller in the tradition begun by Homer and Sappho 2,800 years...
Magnolia - J. J. Cale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WzDO_hj8A The other John Cale. In 1964, singer songwriter John Weldon Cale (known as J.J.) moved to LA...
Gloria (Part I: "In Excelsis Deo"; Part II: "Gloria (Version)") - Patti Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Sq3HL2OV8 A subversion of traditional boy-for-girl adoration as Patti Smith takes the song - "Gloria" -...
Andalucia - John Cale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7iLFuapeY8 Pivotal in the original and classic Velvet Underground line-up was Welshman John Cale, often...
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg Not all girl-name songs are paeans to the beauty of or love for the woman in question....
Souareba - Salif Keita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5HuE33wUso Mory Kanté started out in the "Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako",...
