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Child in Time - Deep Purple

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...

In the dead winter in we're heading for the sultry heat of summer in the deep south to New Orleans and the Dixie Cups. They are...

What a lot of people don't realise was that the success of Motown was initially strongly based on girl groups, first with the very girl...

The wonderfully named Shadow Morton was the greatest Phil Spector imitator and his great oeuvre was the singles of the Shangri-Las. The...

I'm guessing you've heard ""He's so fine" and "One Fine Day" so in line with the idea of playing some gems which you are less likely to...