Time for some Gun’s and Roses? The story of this song is not fully evident until you watch the video until the very end but it involves “matches and dispatches” without the “hatches” ????.
Day 255: November Rain, Guns N’ Roses Read More »
Another song from the piano man, Rocket Man. This is such a great version of this wonderful song when the young Elton John still had his voice. The piano in this video is also just wonderful.
Day 254: Rocket Man, Elton John Read More »
I remember falling in love with this piece by Elton John when I first heard it as a child (released in 1978). I just love the piano chord progression with the clever use of synthesizer and the gentle castanet percussion sound. This is not an entirely musical piece for it ends with the single and
Day 253: Song for Guy, Elton John Read More »
Yesterday I posted the song “Africa” by Toto. Along with “Eye of the tiger”, this song reminds me of a youth camp I attended in 1983. The final song that I associate with this camp is this classic tune by Lionel Richie. On the camp was some guy whose nickname was “mouse” (can’t remember his
Day 252: All night Long, Lionel Richie Read More »
This song came out in my teenage years around the same time as the Rock movie theme tune, Eye of the Tiger. I mentioned in that post about a camp I attended where we stayed up all night watching Rocky movies. This song also figures heavily in this pleasant teenage memory as many of the
Day 251: Africa, Toto Read More »
Such a lovely piece of music that brings back pleasant memories of the movie Local Hero which came out in 1983 when I was still at school. A nice concert performance of this timeless classic although this version does lack the brass section of which of course is prominent in the original soundtrack. However without
Day 250: Going Home, Mark Knopfler Read More »
OK I have resisted putting in a Michael Jackson until now as he is not one of my favourite artists. However, let’s face it he is mega famous and certainly part of modern rock pop so here is my Covid Island disc offering. I think this song is one of my favourites MJ songs and
Day 249: Beat It, Michael Jackson Read More »
First for this band in Covid Island Discs. Like the way they combine the word shame with the guitar. Postscript March 2022: RIP Taylor Hawkins.
Day 248: Shame, Shame Foo Fighters Read More »
Another very famous rock classic. Even after so many days of Covid Island Discs there are still classics to find on Youtube.
Day 247: Jump, Van Halen Read More »
Ok so this song brings back lots of teenage memories for me. I remember going on a youth camp when I was about 16 and one night we had a video night where we watched all the Rocky movies back to back. This song always reminds me of that camp which was so much fun.
Day 246: Eye of the Tiger, Survivor Read More »
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