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I have to admit the title might be a bit harsh but I hope it got your attention. Paul McCartney’s arrival at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport on January 16, 1980, marked his first visit to Japan since the Beatles tour of 1966. The occasion was a planned 11-city concert tour by his band Wings. Instead,…
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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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Music legend Glenn Miller’s plane vanished over the Channel without a trace on 15 December 1944. On that day, Miller, an Army major, was believed to have boarded a UC-64A Norseman in Bedfordshire, England, as a passenger. The plane was bound for France, where Miller was planning to perform for Allied troops. While travelling to…
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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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I was struggling to find an appropriate title for this blog because so much can be said about this man. I am passionate about music although I am not necessarily that keen on classical music, I do listen to the works of great composers like Mozart,Beethoven.Satie,Ravel and Strauss.However all these great composers pale in comparison…
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