Musical Chairs
Steve BradleyA weekly perspective on music every Friday. Information, inspiration, indignation.
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#127 Fade Away and Radiate
I know writing an entire blog about less than four minutes of music is self-indulgent, but then so is the song - in the very best way.
Released this week in 1978, not only is Fade Away and Radiate unlike anything else Blondie ever wro...
#126 A tale of two anthems
This week marks 50 years since the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival Riot, an event of huge social, political and cultural importance in the UK.
Sparked by simmering tensions over police stop-and-search practices, far-right agitation and the...
#125 Pacific Ocean Blue
The burnt out Ferrari, Manson Family mayhem, rampant drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, five marriages and death by drowning tend to get in the way, but the truth is that Dennis Wilson was a sensitive visionary who stoked the fires o...
#124 Slash and Burn: You Really Got Me
It's the riff that changed everything. Just not for the band that created it.
Depending on your point of view, when The Kinks released You Really Got Me as a single this month in 1964, they either (a) invented the hard rock riff (b) l...
#123 Finding inspiration
A friend sent me a video last week. It was Glen Hansard talking about an encounter with one of his musical heroes, Van Morrison.
Here's an exec summary: Young Dublin busker Glen invited to Van's private 50th birthday party (not by Van...
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