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...
Mexico - Belcirque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jsi4lBi2Qk Now for something to cheer us up, this wonderful, cheeky Belgian girl group with a difference....
Walk out in the Rain - Badfinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqY0U4bmpWg From 1968 to '73, the Beatles' record label allowed the Fab Four to experiment in their own different directions with an interesting bunch of artists either being produced by them or recording their songs. Curiously, their ability to sniff out quality was true even if the likes of Hot Chocolate and James Taylor did not make it until after they had moved on to other labels. Others who did have hits were the Harrison produced Billy P
