Generally I try to keep my emotions under control. Well, I’m a bloke – right, John? Some emotions emerge from time to time from the mental vault where I store them, usually the blind rage and physical fury variety. A pity, but true. 180 degrees away though, I do feel very strong emotions about music. […]
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As a box set celebrating the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album is released, Craig McLean talks to bassist Klaus Voormann and The Beatles’ press assistant Richard DiLello, and recalls his meeting with Yoko Ono in 2009, when she spoke about her reaction to one of the most important moments in pop history MORE
What do you do after you’ve been in the biggest band in the world? In Dave Grohl’s case, you do it again. Dermot O’Leary links up with Dave Grohl in his studio in LA to look back on his time in Nirvana and 25 glorious years as frontman for Foo Fighters. From The Word to […]
We are told: Unreleased Live recordings by 13th Floor Elevators Featuring the yelping vocals and visionary, occasionally demented lyrics of Roky Erickson, the 13th Floor Elevators were one of the original acid rock bands. Formed in Texas in the mid-60s, the Elevators started as a garage rock outfit, scoring their one and only modest national […]
Biographical drama. At the height of success with his band The Beach Boys, musical genius Brian Wilson begins to suffer from mental illness, which is not helped by his experiments with LSD. A decade later, Wilson is in the grip of shady psychotherapist Eugene Landy, whose extreme treatment is causing further deterioration, until the day […]
Tower of Power formed in 1968, and just two years later their horn section started playing on tracks for other artists. They’re on “Jaded” by Aerosmith, “The Bitch Is Back” by Elton John, “The Power Of Love” by Huey Lewis & the News. We asked group founder Emilio Castillo, who plays sax in the band, […]
The 13th Floor Elevators – Live Evolution Lost – 3LP coloured vinyl box set recorded on 18th February 1967. Live Evolution Lost: The 13th Floor Elevators Live at the Houston Music Theatre is the first ever release of the complete performance of the band’s legendary show from 18th February 1967 The trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators […]
Three conductors, and a German thread Each chapter heading in My Century by Günter Grass is a year, from 1900-1999, and although Grass is somewhat disgraced by his belated admission that he joined the Waffen-SS, this fictionalised chronicle is nonetheless worth reading for the light it sheds on German thinking – not least on the […]
Renaud Capuçon’s playing of the Brahms: Violin Concerto, Berg: Violin Concerto makes this a remarkable disc, writes Geoffrey Norris. Please click HERE to continue
Santana live at the Cow Palace, San Francisco on New Year’s Eve 1975 broadcast by KSAN-FM. A smokin’ live band in full flow with a rejuvenated Carlos giving the material from the early albums new focus and energy. All captured in pristine sound quality. Limited Edition pressing of 1000.
Martin Carthy recorded Shearwater in 1971, just after leaving Steeleye Span for the first time. His work with that band at the start of their career has just been reissued on Talking Elephant, Please to See the King and Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again. Over a long career , Martin Carthy […]
This 3 CD set contains the best quality recording of the legendary Winterland broadcast, performed at the renowned San Francisco venue on 15th December, just two weeks before the whole tour wrapped up for good. The tour has since become viewed as perhaps Springsteen’s best in a storied career of concert performances. ‘Tonight you’re […]
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This week on the Gramophone website we are celebrating the career and recordings of the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Among the highlights of Abbado Week are two different guides his finest recordings, a comprehensive overview of Abbado’s career and heartfelt tribute from Gramophone’s Editor-in-Chief James Jolly, and a classic interview with Abbado drawn from […]
PAT TRAVERS BAND 1981 STANLEY THEATER PITTSBURGH With the demise of the short-lived, but renowned Pat Travers any newcomer to the line-up alongside Travers could be standing in the shadows, but all was not lost. The addition of ‘Italian battalion’ (and ex-Blackjack drummer) Sandy Gennaro combined with his counterpart Peter ‘Mars’ Cowling (ex Gnidrolog) allowed […]
Bundle of three Jerry Garcia Band releases from the Pure Jerry series. Shows include two nights from July 1977, a compilation from the October 1987 New York Broadway run, and two nights from September 1989. Set 1 – Theatre 1839, July 29-30, 1977 Set 2 – Lunt-Fontanne, NYC Best of the Rest Set […]
Modern blues giant Popa Chubby returns from one of the busiest years of his career with thisincredible 2CD concert performance album recorded live in three different clubs in France, March2015!• Features a mixture of the Chubbfatha’s best known songs including “69 Dollars,” “Sweat,” “LifeIs A Beatdown” and many more!
“I haven’t been this struck by the orchestral expositions to Chopin’s concertos since Jun Märkl with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Ingrid Fliter. Now in the company of another Scottish orchestra, the RSNO, Elim Chan makes equally bold decisions about how the music should go. It’s easy to understand why they ….. ” Continues HERE
We are told: Limited edition 5CD Box Set featuring four FM broadcasts from An Introductory pre-order price of £12.99 for first 100 orders. Lofgren was born in Chicago in 1951 to an Italian mother and a Swedish father. When Lofgren was a young child, the family moved to the Washington, D.C., suburb of Garrett Park, […]
They hailed from Macon, Georgia. They looked like any number of young, hopeful bands straddling the violent fade of the1960s with the advent of the 1970s. Yet they sounded like no other group, their youthfulness belied by virtuosic abilities andinterlocking interplay Miles Davis would’ve envied. It all starts here, on a smoldering self-titled debut that […]
The Fab Four’s farewell, the Rolling Stones’ airlift out of Altamont, the Who’s infamous toilet stop … the great rock photographer Ethan Russell relives his legendary moments Continues HERE
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Pianist Dejan Lazic explores the genius of the composer and virtuoso Continues HERE