Musical Chairs
Steve BradleyA weekly perspective on music every Friday. Information, inspiration, indignation.
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#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...
#131 The greatest Joke ever
OK, here's a question for you: If you could rewind your life in music, what album do you most wish you could hear for the first time again?
For me, it's Killing Joke's self-titled debut which was released this week in 1980. Drop the n...
#130 The Old Grey Whistle Test
It's probably a fair indicator of the psychedelic weirdness of 1970s British culture that none of us ever bothered to question the origin of the name. Instead, we just happily plonked ourselves in front of a tiny TV set and lapped up the la...
#129 In a spin with Vertigo and Revolver
Two transformational cultural moments. One common denominator: we just weren't ready for them.
When Alfred Hitchcock released Vertigo in 1958, the public and critics were disarmed, just not in the way the director wanted them to be. T...
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