Shame - I was never into Duane Eddy but the Moody Blues were right up there in my list of favourite bands - spent many a happy hour mesmerized by their music. I used to particularly love their song Go Now - so sad that they've Gone Now...
I remember hearing Voices in the Sky in Bamberg on a German exchange in 1968...... a real 'ear opener' ....I had never heard music like that before...
Memories of music in Germany in the 60s. That would be around the time a friend and I were hitch hiking to Italy - and got stuck in Heidelberg late at night. We decided to shelter in an underpass, settled down for the night, turned the trannie on to hear Pet Clark singing 'Don't Sleep in the Subway'. A few minutes later we realised what sound advice that was - the mother of all thunderstorms broke and we were flushed out.
German exchange in Hamburg 1978 was the key moment (see what I did there? ) and the song was Highway Star by Deep Purple. I was already rock orientated, but that took things to a new level for me.
It's funny how, after the career he's had, he is probably best remembered for his role in a film from 1970. Mind you, it was a brilliant film - I've lost count of the number of times I've watched it, and he was outstanding in it.
Reading a retrospective in Rolling Stone magazine on-line, he was never even nominated for an Oscar. Considering his career and the number of Oscar Winning films and actors he was involved in, that is a staggering statistic. MASH, Klute, Ordinary People, Six Degrees of Separation, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, A Time to Kill, Hunger Games.... it's an extraordinary body of work. 88 is a fine innings... and yet I'm still sad.
BBC News - British blues pioneer John Mayall dies aged 90 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80ej3j9j72o Another music great moves on
Sad news. I saw him with his band The Bluesbreakers at the Railway Hotel in Harrow a couple of times back in the 60s. Memorable gigs because both times I was near-deaf for three days afterwards.
I was too young to go to the Railway Hotel where The Who played everyweek - I wish I had known at the time.
I probably was too, but wasn't going to let that stop me. I was lucky enough to be living opposite the Trade Union Hall back then - and watched The Who there a number of times. In fact I can be spotted in the crowd in one of these pictures... https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/leisure/24233781.rare-concert-pictures-watford-trade-union-hall/
This sad news made worse. The hidden disease that so many have. www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cy84x7rrppno
That truly is awful. My youngest son suffers from the same thing and my wife and I dread the day the police coming knocking on our door with unwanted news.
