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Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Saints_Alive, Jun 13, 2017.

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Do you want a stickied music thread ?

Poll closed Jun 16, 2017.
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  2. NO

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  3. DON'T CARE

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  1. Saints_Alive

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    Multi-Grammy Award winning Singer, Songwriter, Actress and Filmmaker, Barbara Streisand is 76 today having been born on this day in Brooklyn in 1942...

    This is a wonderful duet from two consumate performers...

     
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    Oh go on then...
     
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    Came across this video. I like it a lot. Something so special about music, it brings people together in the moment. Euphoria, elation, happiness and nothing else matters. And of course, everyone loves Queen.
     
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    Streisand with Donna Summer. Two great singers. Summer sadly died of cancer in 2012 far too young.

     
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    This somehow passed me by on release in February but it sees Ash going back to their punk-rocking best.

     
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    One of the giants of 20th Century Jazz singing, " The First Lady Of Song", Ella Fitzgerald was born on this day in Newport News, Virginia in 1917...

     
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    Happy 60th Birthday to original Frontman and Songwriter for Marillion, Fish who was born Derek Dick (really!) in Dalkeith, Scotland on this day in 1958...

     
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    My dad's favourite! (and apparently had no small influence on me being conceived!) but I don't know to which song?
     
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    Swedish Songwriter, Composer, Musician, Singer, Guitarist, Producer and Musical Director, Björn Ulvaeus most famously of ABBA (he was married to the lovely Agnetha, lucky bastard!), turns 73 today, having been born in Gothenburg in 1945...

    He wrote this gorgeous instrumental with Co-Songwriting partner Benny Andersson...

     
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    Sheer brilliance . What those two did will never be bettered in POP music EVER as far as I am concerned .

    Quite weird , this is one of my Favourite ABBA tracks , but a bit like Union City Blues ( Blondie ) and Rapture as mentioned by Fatletiss , never gets played .
     
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    One of my musical heroes, Glen Matlock, allegedly borrowed from this Abba classic when writing Pretty Vacant. I think it was Pete Townshend who called it the perfect pop song. Debatable of course, but damn good regardless.

     
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    Happy 80th Birthday to the Twangmaster, Rockabilly Guitarist, Duane Eddy, famed for his string of instrumental hits, who was born on this day in Corning, New York in 1938...

     
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    Indie Pop Singer/Songwriter and Producer, Nerina Pallot turns 44 today having been born in London in 1974, she grew up on Jersey..

     
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    Mr Alf n’Safety would have a fit if anyone tried that sort of thing nowadays! Brilliant!
     
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