Musical Chairs
Steve BradleyA weekly perspective on music every Friday. Information, inspiration, indignation.
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#136 The Late Show
Music icons David Bowie and Kate Bush built a career on reinvention, but it is striking how many legendary artists have chosen a different path in the autumn of their career. Welcome to The Late Show.
The Man in Black Johnny Cash was...
#135 She wore Blue Velvet - nearly
A song she'd never even heard three years earlier almost landed Elizabeth Fraser a role in one of the most iconic films ever made.
In 1983, 4AD label boss Ivo Watts-Russell handed Cocteau Twins singer Fraser a cassette featuring Tim B...
#134 A splice of heaven
This week in 1983 saw the release of one of the greatest pop albums of all time, The The's Soul Mining.
I hesitate to use the word 'highlight' because the entire record is basically a 41-minute highlight, but the extended version of U...
#133 Play Roberta for Me
There are some notable trios in music history - Barry, Robin and Maurice, Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle, Kurt, Dave and Krist.
But how about these three? Ewan MacColl, Roberta Flack and Clint Eastwood. Without their combined efforts, we...
#132 Eighteen months that shook the earth
Valhalla, I am coming. The final line from the first verse of the first track on Led Zeppelin III, Immigrant Song.
In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the place great warriors go to die after they are slain in battle. The four Zep heroes...
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