Got tickets to see The Cat Empire, an Australian Ska and Jazz band in Boscombe later in the year. Should be great fun live!
The great Tom Harrell -born today in 1942. An amazing musician , irrespective of the difficulties he has had to overcome. This is his most famous composition. I have a book of his lead sheets and the music is extremely difficult and peppered with awkward, altered chords and weird harmonic shifts.
60...Jello Biafra [Eric Reed Boucher], American musician and activist (Dead Kennedys), born in Boulder, Colorado in 1958... This could almost be the current Government's manifesto...
56... Michael Monroe, Finnish singer, songwriter (Hanoi Rocks) was born Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm in Helsinki in 1962... Guns N' Roses ripped off their act quite a bit!...
One of my brothers was the master of the "ulterior motive present". He would buy you an LP of someone you never even said you liked (Level 42 for example) and then copy it on a cassette before giving it to you!. He once gave me Trivial Pursuit, but I found out that he had already had an evening of playing with his mates and then had the temerity to keep *borrowing it afterwards. *taking it without asking
Rockabilly electric guitarist, ranked 79th in Rolling Stone magazine greatest of all time, Cliff Gallup (of Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps) was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1930, (d.1988)...
76..Sir Paul McCartney, singer,songwriter, musician and member of The Beatles, was born in Allerton, Liverpool in 1942... Some personal fave Macca songs...
This one is special to me as my dear old dad took me to see Live and Let Die, Roger Moore's debut as Bond...
57...Alison Moyet singer, songwriter of Yazoo and Solo was born Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet in Billericay, Essex in 1961...
Every bit as talented as his father, with an idiosyncratic sound that shows his influences but is very much his own, this is Justin Townes Earl, son of Steve Earl. His dad gave him his middle name in honour of his friend Townes Van Zandt.