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Polly Samson, Pink Floyd lyricist and wife of David Gilmour, accuses Roger Waters of ‘antisemitism to your rotten core’ Waters says he entirely refutes the ‘incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments’ by former bandmate’s wife Pink Floyd lyricist Polly Samson has accused the band’s co-founder Roger Waters of being “antisemitic to your rotten core”, in an […]

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BRIAN ENO / TELEVISION – the long read

GUARDIAN / RICHARD WILLIAMS ‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos hen Tom Verlaine wrote his great lyric about Broadway looking so medieval, he wasn’t thinking about the rather down-at-heel recording studio in an office building where his band, Television, made their first demos in December 1974. […]

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Blurring the boundary between classical music and jazz – the long read

GRAMOPHONE: Composer and pianist Iain Farrington surveys the interwoven history of classical and jazz as his new album, ‘Gershwinicity’, is released on the Somm label lthough the terms ‘classical’ and ‘jazz’ are frustratingly vague for such a broad wealth of music, they provide a useful distinction for two different musical traditions. When the two styles […]

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SCHUBERT: Our podcast of the day

GRAMOPHONE In 2019, Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Schubert’s great song-cycle in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Erato were on hand to record it. James Jolly caught up with the multi-Gramophone Award-winning mezzo to talk about her unique approach to the work. As one of a handful of women singers who have […]

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LED ZEP: Was John Paul Jones really an accepted member of the band?

Eric Johnson (former Radio Promotions Director Remote Engineer at CBS (1990-2002)) replies … Of course he was….Someone once asked if JPJ was, to paraphrase, “the weakest talent in the band” at which point Page just laughed at the foolishness of the statement and said “go sober up sometime and have another listen” and he continued […]

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CCR / Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty wins music rights

Following a 50-year legal battle, the founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival now owns the global publishing rights to the iconic rock band’s songs. It came after Mr Fogerty, 77, bought a majority stake in the rights to the band’s catalogue from Concord Records, which has owned the rights since 2004 —//— At its peak, […]

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‘It speaks straight from the heart’: Bryan Ferry, Adele and Engelbert Humperdinck on Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love

THE GUARDIAN / Annie Zeleski When Adele covered Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love on her debut album 19, her interpretation was a sparse piano ballad that exuded tortured romantic longing. “The lyrics are just amazing and summed up exactly what I’d been trying to say in my songs,” Adele said then. “It’s about […]

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EDDIE BOYD: Worth investigating!

Blues pianist Eddie Boyd’s 7936 South Rhodes was recorded in London in January 1968 with three members of the early lineup of Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green (guitar), John McVie (bass), and Mick Fleetwood(drums). It’s a tantalizing setting for Boyd’s straight up Chicago piano Blues, going heavier on the slow-to-mid-tempo numbers than the high-spirited ones. Eddie […]

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NEIL YOUNG: Why was he mentioned in Sweet Home Alabama? Who did he put down?

Amy Christa Erano wries … Southern white men in general (“Southern Man”) and white Alabamans in particular (“Alabama”). Those two songs painted a very negative picture of Southern white men, and while the South certainly has a history of racism as well as slavery, Ronnie Van Zant was a Southern white man (from Florida, not […]

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STATUS QUO: Accept No Substitute – The Definitive Hits (2DVD)

  Released on 20th November 2015 through Universal Music, the Status Quo career retrospective releases ‘Accept No Substitute: The Definitive Hits’ 3CD and ‘Accept No Substitute: The Definitive Hits & More’ 2DVD are a true celebration of the entire body of work of one of the world’s greatest ever rock acts. For the first time […]

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SCHUBERT: Our podcast of the day

GRAMOPHONE: Joined by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the American mezzo takes a different approach to this song masterwork In 2019, Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Schubert’s great song-cycle in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Erato were on hand to record it. James Jolly caught up with the multi-Gramophone Award-winning mezzo to talk about her […]

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JONI MITCHELL: Hejira – an opinion

After the expanded instrumental scale and sonic experimentation of Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell reverses that flow for the more intimate, interior music on Hejira, which retracts the arranging style to focus on Mitchell’s distinctive acoustic guitar and piano, and the brilliant, lyrical bass fantasias of fretless bass innovator […]

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BRIAN MAY: Does he still play his original Red Special in concerts or is it now a museum piece and he plays a replica of the original he made with his dad at the beginning of his career?

Matt Rimmer Queen information sponge (1975 – present day) answers ….. “Does Brian May still play his original Red Special in concerts or is it now a museum piece and he plays a replica of the original he made with his dad at the beginning of his career?” Yes, he still prefers to play his […]

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THE GODFATHERS: She Gives Me Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdCo9YXTOs A few viewer observations First time I listen this… It’s so amazing! I guess it says something, when you can sing the song w/o having the cd for the last 13 yrs. Great band! only the guys who jumped off the metal wagon understood this kind of music

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VINYL: If you know anyone that “seriously” collects records, they are probably exactly like this guy.

Sarah Barness (The Huffington Post): If you know anyone that “seriously” collects records, they are probably exactly like this guy. They organize their collection by sections for generic metal, stoner metal,death metal, punk, shoegazer, dream pop, jazz, ragtime, classical, rap, R&B etc. etc. etc. If the records aren’t organized by genre, they might just be […]

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ROGER WATERS: ‘It’s my project’: Roger Waters says he’s re-recorded Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon by himself

THE INDEPENDENT / Jacob Stolworthy Roger Waters hars re-recorded one of Pink Floyd’s most-acclaimed albums – by himself. The musician’s project, which he has been working on in secret, has seen him create a new version of 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon. According to a new interview, Waters proceeded without telling his former […]

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LOSSLESS: The Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall goes lossless

GRAMOPHONE: A world first video stream-on-demand with audio track in lossless studio quality The Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall (DCH) – which has been broadcasting around 40 concerts live from the Philharmonie every season since 2008 and then offering them in a constantly growing concert archive – notches up another technological milestone with the introduction […]

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