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Back Street - R Dean Taylor

One of the few white songwriters on the Motown staff, R Dean Taylor specialised in social comment stories and simple, personal, low-life...

Just in case this was getting a bit predictable, time to go off piste. Back in the old days when you could have the annual village dance...

Play it loud, no meaning, pure pace and pure joy. People have hardly ever heard of these guys, but stick 'em on the turntable and...

while we're doing epic and the meaning of life...... One of the most extraordinary albums of of 2002 was Joni Mitchell's "Travelogue"...

Play LOUD. The connection with this and the previous post is something that disturbed me for many years namely that this seemed to be a...

Little piece of heaven by one of the many sixties Californian bands, It's a Beautiful Day, led by classical trained guitarist David...

Spot the connection with yesterday's post. Or rather, let it slowly, pleasurably dawn on you. Normally, I encourage you to pay as little...

I'm back. Over two months off since Christmas, mostly because I have had the dreaded so-called Aussie flu. So I have for much of that...

Merry Christmas! Back in 1987, I was tasked with putting on the Crystals in the newly opened Rocket Theatre in Islington, a venue that...

Isn't it interesting that the two most distinctive sounds of the girl groups era derived from the fact that the producer (in the Motown...