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Mozart’s last concerto presents unique challenges to those recording the work, finds Nalen Anthoni Valedictory or visionary? Is there a choice? Could Mozart, who finished this concerto about eight weeks before he died, have been anything other than valedictory? Yet in his letter from Vienna to Constanze in Baden, written at midnight on October 7, […]
I’m going to review records in my collection, and you’ll be able to decide if they’re worthy of your collection. These records are what I consider “must haves” for any jazz aficionado, and would be found in their collections. I wont review any record that’s not on CD, nor will I review any record if […]
BILL MORRISON … Actually, they collaborated on over half of the album. They were also working extremely long days without break for months to get the album on the market against industry deadlines. It is no wonder that many songs seem to be solo efforts, but that was not their plan. I strongly recommend that […]
Jay Horrocks writes … There is a song from the 90s which is extremely popular. It spent 11 weeks at the top of the US Hot 100 Airplay chart, it was a number 1 hit across most of Europe, having most of its success in Scandinavia and Belgium. In fact according to its Wikipedia entry […]
John Strickland writes … Here is an interesting backstory on the recording of “Love Me Do,” and it is quoted from the following source: “There were two songs in contention for the single A side: Love Me Do and a song that George Martin preferred, How Do You Do It?, which was not a Beatles […]
Thomas J. Beaver, Classical musician and rock musician, fanatic of the 60s/70s replies ……. The famous 20th century classical musician/composer Leonard Bernstein, long-time conductor/director of The New York Philharmonic (and composer of the musical “West Side Story, and the operetta “Candide”) liked the Fab Four too! Bernstein’s daughter, who was 6 when Beatlemania hit the […]
Erich Ising: The Lovin’ Spoonful is an American rock band which was popular during the mid-to late-1960s. Founded in New York City in 1965 by lead-singer/songwriter John Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky, it is best known for a number of hits which include “Summer in the City”, “Do You Believe In Magic”, “Did You Ever […]
Sebastian Peralta answers … He played all the time. He was known to sleep with his guitar in the army, he played as he walked around his apartment, he would go to late night jams and play until morning, after he already gave a live concert. At his stage of development, he didn’t view time […]
Why does Rolling Stone hate Led Zeppelin? SCOTT M writes Rolling Stone always felt that they were the authority on music. This is not uncommon, as the British music magazines were doing the same for years. Rolling Stone had the power to make any mediocre band into superstars, and then they had the power to […]
What is the nastiest way somebody was fired from their band? ADAM FLOYD replies Don Felder was fired from the Eagles in a very nasty vindictive way as he was close to exposing the other members’ scam. The band’s affairs were managed through Eagles Inc, a company owned by the three remaining early members (Felder, […]
Are Kraftwerk the most influential group in pop history? Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark thinks so. “People always go back to how the American blues was lifted by the British and turned into pop in the Sixties, but that was a long time ago, and its reign was 20 or 30 years,” […]
As per title,played a Steve Hacket LP the other night,this would have been played to death back in the 70’s with many different cartridges including Decca’s.First track has a couple of Acoustic guitars playing,I could usually locate where they were in the mix,but it sounded all jumbled up with little separation.Another track had a guitar […]
RICK B writes I remember when ‘Free As A Bird’ first came out, my God it was mind blowing. It was the Beatles sounding like the Beatles and OMG those delicious harmony vocals, I mover thought I’d hear that sound again. I just kept listening to it over and over again. Oh and of course […]