It’s 10 years since the untimely passing of George Harrison and if you haven’t yet seen the HBO documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, there’s no better time. The in-depth look at the life and music of the ‘quietest Beatle’ as told through the lens of Martin Scorcese is a beautiful tribute...
The Deluxe Edition of the Rolling Stones 1978 epic recording has just been released which means now there’s even more Some Girls to love…a whole 2nd record’s worth. It’s a long time coming for die-hards who have been bootlegging many of these extra tracks for years. Mick and Keith have been out chatting up...
No question this is Adele’s year. She is the toast of the town with her ‘21’ burning up the charts and you know you really reach the big time when you get spoofed on Saturday Night Live. This weekend the joke was on her ubiquitous “Someone Like You” when a group of down-on-themselves office...
This week we lost a couple of big personalities, both with ‘heavy’ in their title. First was the larger than life heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier and if 70’s pop culture even remotely rings a bell, you know that the 1971 Fight of the Century against Muhammad Ali was the boxing spectacle of the...
The greatest rock and roll album never completed was The Beach Boys SMiLE. Recorded shortly after the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album in 1966, it found lead Beach Boy and legendary composer Brian Wilson (at only 24) at the peak of his creative prowess merging his Southern California branded popular music into new and abstract...
When it comes to Björk, there’s no middle of the road…it’s either love or hate. I’ve been on the side of love long before the dreaded white swan dress and for the record, her contribution to the tragic but brilliant Lars von Trier film musical Dancer in the Dark far outweighs any fashion mishap....