music
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Ever since I was a kid I have been a fan of Elvis-The King of Rock N Roll. Not only was he a great singer and performer he had also a great sense of humour. Elvis would often ad lib lyrics during live concerts, as he did during a Las Vegas gig in April 1969.…
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For people who don’t know classical music the name Richard Strauss will mean very little, but for music and movie fans they know the music of the man. His composition “Also Sprach Zarathustra” was made famous by the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” In the early 1930s, Strauss did not join the Nazi…
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Traveling by plane is still the safest way to travel, well at least if you’re not a musicians. A disproportionate of singers and musicians over the last few decades, if you’d go by their track records you’d never board a plane again. Since the list is quite extensive I will focus on the lesser known…
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A swan flies over the Shannon while a Limerick Rose fades A tormented but beautiful soul I remember seeing you for the first time, no it was not in concert but in a shopping mall You looked so fragile next to the man who towered over you,your husband. Small and fragile but yet so tall…
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Elvis, the younger years, not only for him but also for me. I was 9 when Elvis died and to me it felt like losing a close family member, His music meant a lot to me in my younger years and even to this day. Born on January 8,1935 Elvis Aaron Presley was born as…
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Although we didn’t lose as many musical heavy weights in 2017 as we did in 2016. This year there were still significant losses in the music industry. Especially the alternative rock scene had to bear the brunt of the losses, Below is a list of some of those losses, the ones who exchanged day for…
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Alas we had to bid farewell to Tom Petty this year. A great musician with a very distinctive voice and sound. I actually hadn’t heard of Tom Petty until I saw the music video of ‘Don’t Come Around Here No More’ on a show called ‘Monsters of Rock’ on Sky channel. When I say I…
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Don’t worry I haven’t lost my Rock N Roll roots, but the Milli Vanilli case is a good indication of the hypocrisy of the Pop Music industry On November 16 1990 Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. Nowadays…
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It is widely assumed that the first Beatle to die was John Lennon who was killed on the 8th of December by Mark David Chapman. You’d all be wrong believing this for it was Paul McCartney who died in a car crash in 1966, below you will find all the compelling evidence. Well I had…
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No I haven’t suddenly gone all ultra nice, as many of you know the title of this blog is actually the 1st line of the classic Rolling Stones song”Sympathy for the devil” A song which is often misunderstood for being some satanic worshiping bit of musical poetry, but it couldn’t be further away from that.…
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