Night of the hurricane
ON the evening of October 15, 1987, I was working on the Daily Mail off Fleet Street when I went with a colleague for a break-time drink at a nearby pub named … Continue readingNight of the hurricane
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Grateful Dead: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Lovely, laid-back, live performance of the Dylan classic. And here’s Bryan Ferry’s take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxeurlq7m2k
The Heptones: I Shall Be Released
Something a bit jollier today; a 1969 reggae rendition of the Dylan song which first appeared on the Band’s Music From Big Pink the previous year.
A tribute to Tom Verlaine
THIS is writer James Rogers’s reaction to the death on Saturday of Tom Verlaine. The darkness has doubled, lightning has struck itself – Tom Verlaine has passed on. The Cadillac … Continue readingA tribute to Tom Verlaine
Television: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
With tragic timing, I scheduled this clip for today unaware that Tom Verlaine had died on Saturday, aged 73. RIP TV, a true guitar genius. Another star taken early from … Continue readingTelevision: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Chan Romero: Hippy Hippy Shake
This was written and recorded by Chan Romero in 1959, when he was 17. I think it’s brilliant but all I can find out about it is that it got to No … Continue readingChan Romero: Hippy Hippy Shake
The year with no summer
IT HAS been a pretty cold winter so far in Lancashire, with night temperatures regularly down to about minus 8 deg C and staying at freezing point during the day. … Continue readingThe year with no summer
Caetano Veloso: Jokerman
According to this website https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famous-brazilian-singers/ Caetano Veloso is the sixth-most famous Brazilian singer of all time. In this performance from 1992, he gets his lungs round Dylan’s song from the … Continue readingCaetano Veloso: Jokerman
Jim James and Calexico: Goin’ to Acapulco
Originating from the Basement Tapes, this haunting version appears on I’m Not There, the 2007 biopic of his Bobness. And a strange old clip it is.
The Kinks: Lola
This was written by group leader Ray Davies for the Kinks’ 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. It was released in June 1970, five months ahead of the … Continue readingThe Kinks: Lola