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  • In my opinion 1993 was the worst year in Pop music-I have no scientific data to back this up, it is just based on the re-runs of Top of the Pops on BBC4. Most of the songs are awful and hardly memorable. Luckily the rock track on this episode of Rocktober is not from 1993…

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  • When it comes to heavy metal it probably doesn’t get better then this. It is the forgotten Live Aid project. Hear ‘n Aid was a charity record recorded by a large ensemble of 40 heavy metal musicians and released in 1986. The project was organized by Ronnie James Dio, Jimmy Bain, and Vivian Campbell, all…

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  • “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” is a song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968 that appears as the final track on the Electric Ladyland album released that year. It contains improvised guitar and a vocal from Jimi Hendrix, backed by Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The song is one of…

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  • ROCKTOBER-Bohemian Rhapsody

    It’s a song you have all heard a great number of times. And to those who heard it when it was first released it was probably not like anything you’ve heard before. Bohemian Rhapsody is probably the most unlikely title for a Rock song and yet it became a classic , if not THE classic…

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  • Some of you may not realize this but Queen only had 3 number 1 hits in the UK; Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975,Under Pressure in 1981 and 10 years later with Innuendo in 1991. Ironically their previous number one hit had been brutalized by a certain Mr. Vanilla Ice who used it for his Ice Ice…

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  • It is very hard for artists, who are part of an iconic band, to breakthrough as a solo artist. Stevie nicks was able to handle it(maybe that’s what Destiny’s child meant when they asked “Can you handle it?} Stevie Nicks only became a singer for Fleetwood Mac by chance. The band as looking for a…

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  • I watched a documentary last night on BBC 4, titled “How pop song works”. Apparently the perfect time for a pop song is 3 minutes. That is probably why I am not the biggest fan of pop music, although I have to admit I liked all the ones they mentioned in the documentary. I tend…

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  • wrote a letter to the M.T.VWhat’s going on?Don’t you care about me?Sent the same letter to the radioBut my party went deadLike a shot in the head We all like it – Rock and RollWe all want it – On your showPlay it loud, don’t play it lowBlow your speakers with Rock and Roll We…

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  • I watched “Guardians of the Galaxy-Volume 3” last night, and this song was featured prominently in one of the scenes in the movie. I had forgotten what great song it is. “We Care a Lot” is a song by American rock band Faith No More. There are three versions of the song, all of which…

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  • Music is not just a few notes strung together to create a tune, often accompanied by lyrics. Music is much more then that. It is therapy. It gives hope where there is despair. It gives joy where there is grief. It can transport you back to the days of yore, when time was complicated. It…

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