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David Bowie: Five Years
Later this week, there will be a sort of anniversary. It will be “Five Years” (as David Bowie glumly prophesizes), since I arrived into this country. But today isn’t the end of the world. A lot has happened in the past five years, as my wife will testify – for a start, [...]
David Bowie: Thursday’s Child
Thursday’s Child has far to go. And so does this song… it is one of those late Bowie numbers that I don’t care much for – one of those that can float around and turn into background noise very easily. I’m a big Bowie fan, but I am more of a fan of [...]
Def Leppard: Photograph
ef Leppard are one of the most successful rock bands of all time, and they formed in Sheffield, England, a few miles from where I spent my childhood. Shouldn’t I like this band? Honestly, I never gave the band much listen time – their peak came and went whilst I was still in [...]
Free Energy: Free Energy
The latest issue of the Rolling Stone magazine has a feature about the best new bands of 2010. “Free Energy”, Rolling Stone comments are “Philly power poppers who mine the best of glammy Seventies-style arena jams on their James Murphy-produced debut Stuck on Nothing.” Interesting description – but if you were looking [...]
David Bowie: Changes
Doesn’t it seem like yesterday that I was posting a song by Bowie… where as this last week gone to? Anyway, here we are again, if there’s a situation that is crying out for a song then you have no need to look any further than the chameleon of pop music, David Bowie. Whether it [...]
