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Girl Groups Week No 3: the Ronettes - Be My Baby

Aaaah we have finally arrived. 1963, the first release by the Ronettes, mind-blowing, the wall of sound is born. Apparently when Phil...

So, once the Shirelles had forged the idealogical template, Phil Spector came along and forged the sound. Already a successful songwriter...

Which to begin with, demands a definition. People often use the term girl groups to describe groups like Bananarama and Spice Girls and...

Having had a room full of modern day troubador men in that bar in Mission beach, it's only right that we should think about the women...

Sorry about the delay. I was wanting to complete the songs by the fraternity of poets in Guy Clark's Mission Beach bar and had come to...

So also in Guy Clark's Valhalla bar at Mission Beach, as we've said, was "poor Port Worth boy" Townes van Zandt, a great and prolific...

Since the last post I've been to see Michael Keegan-Dolan's wonderful Swan Lake at Sadler's Wells, a superb, uplifting, multi-textured...

2016 was the year of many sad things: Brexit and Trump's election to name but two, but to me nothing was sadder than the death of the...

Back baby, back in time, I wanna go back to when you were mine. Sixties week is over - the disco for the seventieth birthday is over....

We'd better have something English and Northern for sixties week, and not much better comes from the "other" Northern city. This was the...