pop music 🎵
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the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister
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Bob Geldof initially dismissing the Pogues as “paddy-whackery”
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the bloke from the Wire on The Body of An American
Want to read: Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth 📚
I listened to this podcast in which the author spoke to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, and the book sounds interesting
The book combines a history of goth with personal memoir, and stuff about the 1980s generally. Unsworth says there was a good queen, Siouxsie Sioux, and a bad queen, Margaret Thatcher
I never saw Goth as being that political tbh, but I’ll be interested to read about it in more detail
Also, Unsworth nominates the Sisters of Mercy single with Alice on one side, and Floorshow on the other as being the Greatest Ever Goth Record….which is, as far as I am concerned, the correct answer 😃
The two best songs which start with the same two words, imho
Goin' back - Dusty Springfield
Going back to my roots - Odyssey
I read in this month’s Record Collector magazine that:
[David Essex’s] performance of Che Guevara in Evita led to a personal invitation from Fidel Castro to meet in Cuba.
It seems odd that Fidel would want to meet someone mainly because they’d played the part of his comrade on stage
Melvyn Bragg once perceptively said that the 1970s McCartney had made a “magnificent attempt to be seen as, and to behave as, a very ordinary young English man” to hide the fact that “he was a most extraordinary young English man”.
Annual-ish post / toot / tweet / skeet….
Please could you all continuosly stream my daughter’s version of Blue Christmas from now until Boxing Day
That would be grand
Thanks in advance
Blue Christmas - Bethany Eve on Spotify
Spotify tells me that I’m in the top 0.2% of listeners to Elvis
….so the year hasn’t been entirely wasted
I’ve never seen Back to the Future.
I only realised today, when I saw this poster, that the name of the band ‘McFly’ is a Back to the Future reference
Lovely BBC radio doc about Shane Macgowan, with his wife, and his sister, and Nick Cave, and Bono, and Geldof, and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all
I particularly enjoyed
BBC - Archive on 4 - Shane Macgowan - The Old Main Drag
in honour of the season