Yeah. I don't officially help to uphold the rules on here anymore, so I'll readily advocate bending them when appropriate. That day, Bowie made his song powerful, by looking straight at the individual members of the audience and telling them that they could be "heroes, just for one day". Heroes aren't borne out of doing something for themselves, but doing something selflessly for others. A lot of people came as close as they ever got that day. That subsequent video tore into them at the right time. This was right in the middle of the Thatcher era, yet it took a fair time for selfishness and greed to get the upper hand again. And anyway, you put it up because of The Cars and Drive. I might have put up Just What I Needed and missed the point entirely.
Leon Theremin - inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic instruments - was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on this day in 1896. This is probably the most famous use of it in popular music (though it does not technically contain a theremin, actually features a similar-sounding instrument invented by Paul Tanner called an Electro-Theremin.
I was 21 and remember being so angry at my Grandad (who was 85) as he kept criticising the whole day - the music was terrible, Geldof was a freak etc etc. He soon shut up when I asked him what his generation had done for the starving, how much money he was going to donate (none - and he called himself a Christian!) and when he saw how much money was raised. I'm just sad that that is one of my strongest memories of the day Then again, I can still see the crowd clapping to Radio Gaga, Quo starting things off, George Michael belting out Don't Let the Sun... a truly fantastic day.
You sure you weren't 11 ? Anyway , both my Sisters & Brother begged me to go , but , being the stubborn fool that I am , I had said no and stuck to it . Yes it was a major mistake on my part . Having said that , I did get to see David Essex at the Mayflower .....
I like Shatner's version, because he's just awesome. Stewie Griffin nails it too (It's only one song)
The missus just got tickets for Fleet Foxes for my birthday at Southampton Guildhall on 29th November, can't wait!...
First one in an occasional series of... "This is a really intriguing song that I like but I'm not sure about the group because I haven't heard enough of them yet" : And I actually never got round to doing so because XTC took over, which, perhaps in this case, is to my negative. Keep an open mind. Then again, what is a prog-rocker supposed to do when faced by Thatcherism.? Look for something to hide behind,? Anyway, I love this track. I keep forgetting its name and I have to research it every time I want to hear it again. Luckily these days, I know it is by the Tom Tom Club, so it doesn't take too long to Youtube. Here's Genius of Love: This is a car radio track, where you're on your way to Cornwall or [insert your favourite UK destination] and people are murmuring away in the car but you go silent because this kind of grabs you. And then they ask your opinion and you say, I like it...
And in the series of First Heard... Here's Talking Heads [yeah, they're associated with the above group and there's a pub in Southampton by the same name, so there]. You can keep you Road To Nowhere, and all that Remain in Light stuff. Yes, I like it too, but anything off Fear of Music is absolutely dynamite. The first track which properly made me go, HELLO WHAT ? was... Animals, but the last three tracks off side two of this album are simply this side of bonkers and all the better for it. Truthfully, I could pick any track off this album, especially anything off side two, and extremely especially the last three tracks off side two. If you haven't heard this album it is David Byrne, prior to working with Brian Eno [that's another story], pretty much thinking he can do anything and not holding back. He's not affeared of making music:
