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RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 13-12-2022
Tom Verlaine (73)
RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 15-12-2022
Dave Clark (83)
RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 16-12-2022
Benny Andersson (76)
RE: Born on this day ... - CRAZY-HORSE - 17-12-2022
TOMMY STEELE (86)
UK pop/rock singer and actor.
had numerous UK hits, 33 in all starting in 1956.
for the most part his music reminds me of Herman's Hermits (but the best part of a decade earlier)
favourite of his:
and this one:
RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 17-12-2022
Paul Rodgers (73)
RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 18-12-2022
Bill Nelson (73)
RE: Born on this day ... - CRAZY-HORSE - 18-12-2022
BILLIE EILISH (21)
her best by far:
RE: Born on this day ... - CRAZY-HORSE - 20-12-2022
BILLY BRAGG (65)
UK folkie/protest singer/poet...
he fits somewhere between Phil Ochs, Peter Seeger and Woodie Guthrie for those who are not familiar with him...
favourite:
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
Over luxury's disappointment
So he walks over and he's trying
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
That the Third World is just around the corner.
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle.
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer.
Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
While looking down the corridor
Out to where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards.
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
One leap forward, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it.
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole.
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room.
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a T-shirt away.
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
Billy has often rewritten lyrics to the song above to make them relevant to his Socialist ideals and here is one from just prior to Covid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clTan6E5WA
RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 20-12-2022
Alan Parsons (74)
RE: Born on this day ... - Music Head - 22-12-2022
Rick Nielsen (76)