History of Sorts

Musical

  • Happy Birthday Burt Bacharach.

    Burt Bacharach is one of the must influential composers of popular music, of the 20th century. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on 12th May 1928, Burt Bacharach grew up in Forest Hills, an upper middle suburb of New York City. Although Bacharach began taking piano lessons at the age of eight, his musical breakthrough came

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  • Joice Heth- The story you didn’t see in “The Greatest Showman”

    In this ‘woke’ era it surprises me that the musical “The Greatest Showman” didn’t get cancelled. Even more amazingly it was a huge success, even though it probably was one of the biggest history revisions ever to hit the cinema and later on TV and streaming services. Joice Heth was one of the ‘performers’ of

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  • I would do anything for love(but I won’t do that) RIP Jim Steinman

    There is nothing I can write that would do any justice to the legend that is Jim Steinman. Without him there would be no Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and probably no Celine Dion either. His songs were not just songs, they were epic mini operas. Something many people don’t know that aside from being a

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  • The first musical members of the 27 Club

    The 27 club is a group of artists who have all died in a variety of way, drugs overdose , alcoholism ,suicide, plane crash, traffic accident, natural causes or murder. The one thing they had in common was their age, the all died aged 27. It all started off when Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis

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  • War of the Worlds-Lego style.

    When it comes to music, it is very rare that I have to admit “I stand corrected”, especially when it comes to a piece of music I know inside out. ‘Jeff Wayne’s musical version of the War of the Worlds’ is by far my most favourite album in my collection, I actually have a variety

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  • Don’t give up on us baby! The remarkable story of Hutch-The Covered Man and male prostitution.

    (updated January 5 2024) On April 16 ,1977 David Soul scored a massive NO 1 hit with “Don’t give up on us baby”, take away the “on us baby” and you would have the perfect title for his life. Mostly known as the iconic Hutch from the  buddy cop  TV show “Starsky and Hutch”, David

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  • Grease,Elvis and Star Wars

    I am not going to apologize for this but it is a fact I am a massive Grease fan, and today happens to be the anniversary of the single “Grease” reaching the #1 position on the Billboard top 100. However as the title of this blog suggests there is more to the story. Here are

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