So post Covid Island Discs normally consists of occasional reports that act as memoranda to famous musicians who have passed away. Yet every day of course many people lose their lives in tragic circumstances. A few days back I learned about the death of a friend from breast cancer and of course at the time […]
Song 4: The Dogs Of War, Pink Floyd Read More »
So as I wait in my car on the 30th of November 2022 the sad news of the death of Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac has just flashed up on my phone’s news headlines. It is a little disconcerting that many of the bands I loved in the 80s are now no longer even theoretically
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Funnily enough I always thought this song was Stevie Nicks rather than Fleetwood Mac. Ironic really since I bought the album Tango in the night which is the album this song is taken from. A fairly solid offering from Fleetwood Mac.
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Well this is the 4th last song of Covid Island Discs. In the final 4 songs I shall return to my favourite bands that have brought me the most listening pleasure over the years. REM certainly is up there with my all time favourites and this song is one of their all time classics. This
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So let’s kick of week 63 with a song from the Australian group Icehouse. The video to this song is also pretty cool although I think Iva Davies got the opening idea of his video from the horror movie Play Misty For Me. For any Sydneites out there, enjoy the scenes of our beautiful city.
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Time to finish the first week of 2021 with another classic song from arguably the greatest Australian wordsmith Paul Kelly. A great story about a guy struggling with alcohol addiction who ends up splitting up with his wife while he receives inpatient therapy for his addiction. The story then covers the nervousness of his returning
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Second song from Guns N’ Roses. I think this is their most best known hit and certainly would sit comfortably in a Hard Rock Café playlist.
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Another bizarre unique Christmas video. The other thing that keeps me going in life is comedy and one of my all time favourite double acts were Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Their head to heads were hilarious but this head to head quickly takes an interesting Christmas musical twist with none other but Kim
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Certainly another great band that produced some great music over the years yet as with so many great rock bands, one of its members is no longer with us. I remember the day that Michael Hutchence was found dead in his hotel room from I guess suicide; I was driving back from Sydney University as
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So last week I posted a song from Pink Floyd’s album a momentary lapse of reason called learning to fly. This song is from the same album which was published after Roger Waters left the band. I was very fortunate to see Pink Floyd just after this album was released and it was definitely one
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