

I Believe - Buzzcocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSC0rujhwQ Howard DeVoto was of course lead singer of Manchester punk band Buzzcocks before leaving to...


Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUqM8jf3mU Also in Manchester, a fellow student who lived in the same house as us was the divertingly...


Better to have lost in love (than never to have loved at all) - the Eurythmics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypF1N4884lQ Continuing on the literary references in pop / rock, apart from Sparks (see last post) and...


Here in Heaven - Sparks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGmz1nVgUE Another band who has been knocking around for years, always re-inventing their unique mix of...


The Seventh Seal - Scott Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUk1R_fKEA Back to the amazing Scott Walker. He has a voice to die for and that would have been enough...


Ces Gens-La - Jacques Brel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJEorm42vI and you still don't get it? You still don't get Jacques Brel? Well this should do the trick,...


Jackie - Scott Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtZf62BQzM The Walker Brothers had a short string of hits in the sixties, but they all fancied...


Next - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9t9bcgQnk One of my many omissions from the the Scottish rock sequence not so long ago were the Bay...


Le Moribond - Beirut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlY7_6OwIN8 Now for a Jaques Brel song in its original French. One of the most successful singles of all...


Amsterdam - David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AwLsSOaxtw While we're on the seven Belgians, let us pay homage to one of them, the songwriter, actor...

