@mertonesque Christopher Milk, a US glam / power pop band formed by Rolling Stone scribe John Mendelsohn. He’s really embarrassed about the band.
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@rewindtvuk This is such a cheap and nasty angle. A fine way to disrespect and alienate your audience.
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Rick Wakeman - friend and fan of Rewind TV, is doing a special one-off event celebrating classic British comedy.
Tickets are limited - get yours now:
theconcordeclub.com/product.php/35…
#classictv #comedy #sitcom #britcom #rewindtv
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@World0fEcho He added the Aloysius in the 80s; it was a tribute to Tony Hancock who had it as a middle name in his sitcom Hancock’s Half Hour.
Weirdly, Elton John’s chosen middle name, Hercules, is a nod to another sitcom by the same writers. It’s the name of the horse in Steptoe and Son.
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you’d think he chose the stage name Elvis Costello because it’s a cooler sounding name than his real one. but his real name is Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus, so if anything it was a lateral move at best.
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@sweetseaslug unfortunately, the prisoner goes against the current thinking that the only good television - hell, the only television - ever made is american.
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@sinderinister @gem_ste Lonnie came from a trad jazz background too; his version of “Rock Island Line” developed as a bit of side business when he played with Chris Barber's Jazz Band.
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@gem_ste Let's not forget how incredibly influential skiffle was. Ask Jimmy Page and Van Morrison! Lonnie Donnegan started so many kids on the road to fame and fortune!
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In Britain between the first wave of Rock n Roll and The Beatles, the major music fad was Trad Jazz which consciously mimicked the 1920s and was led by The Temperance Seven who had numerous hits including number ones and were produced by a certain George Martin.
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listening to the beatles and beach boys in the 2020's would've been the equivalent of listening to scott joplin or stuff like "take me out to the ball game" or "you're a grand old flag" in the 1960's (60 years)
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Fab @ElvisCostello cover story in the new issue. Order today via the below link. shindig-magazine.com/?p=7519
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@Steven_Hyden Sensational lack of energy in this performance, fair play to them.
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Can anyone recommend any really good books on Little Richard? Something engaging, not just a straight biography but a piece of writing with some character?
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@mertonesque wicked band, wicked tunes. there's a world out there where this is a cameron winter song and it soundtracks hundreds of tiktok videos of sad dogs.
youtube.com/watch?v=fVe_KV…
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@Steven_Hyden Winwood's stock deserves to be higher. The kidz need Traffic! Arc of a Diver is his McCartney II!
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Every classic rocker needs a "was this song written for a Michelob commercial or not?" section of their Wiki entry.
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@Steven_Hyden With Pink Floyd, the early stuff - Piper especially - seems to have had a dramatic downturn in appreciation. Makes me a little sad.
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@Steven_Hyden Love your take on stocks. Agree with most but I do think LZ are very steady - there are few more popular acts in the "classic rock influencer" world and they're weirdly a shorthand for the 60s as much as the 70s now - but I say this as someone who wasn't there for the 90s.
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I wrote about Paul McCartney, the recent doc about him, why he (still) cares about how he's perceived, and why some classic rock legacies go up (Fleetwood Mac) and others go down (Eric Clapton) like stocks.
tinyurl.com/4rxf2f67
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@AMadmanNotABox @AndrewCreak I think it particularly stings for us Welsh cos we are always fighting to reclaim stuff off the tourists! ;)
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@huwareyou Oh absolutely a fair point. @AndrewCreak did make a rather apt question the other day about what percentage of the petition that has been started is actually reflective of local opinion. And certainly none of the comments I can find on it are from non-tourists.
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And with that, I think we can conclusively say the shrine isn’t coming back. But a plaque will do. Much much less divisive with some of the locals; and less of a confusing sight to those unaware than a faux-memorial to a fictional character.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Shrine to Doctor Who spinoff character to be taken down after 17 years bbc.in/4rPKVlp
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@AMadmanNotABox True, though those figures are widely recognised icons of British pop culture in a way Ianto is never going to be. Some (not you) speak as though the desires of some international Torchwood fans who might visit Cardiff once are as important as what the people who live there want.
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@huwareyou -the Bay. That would’ve really tested this whole affair to a limit. But at least with a plaque, I can rationalise that London has a few plaques to fictional folks like Sherlock and Ziggy Stardust.
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@mertonesque I feel like lots of huge genres came out of musicians attempting to do specifically New Orleans rock & roll / R&B and not having the same jazz background to do it perfectly. early ska in jamaica, roots / southern rock in the US later on.
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the stated purpose of the Ramones, the first punk band, was to bring rock music back to a time when it was simple pop music
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the logical conclusion of punk rock is making simple pop music, that's why all the best punk musicians either quit punk or started making pop rock
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@yugiohmachinim2 The true pseud listens to Scott and Elvis but not Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond
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the mark of the pseud is they will listen to Scott 4 but will not deign to listen to elvis suspicious minds
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@yugiohmachinim2 another one: listening to Scott 4 but not bothering with Til the Band Comes In. It’s great!
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@facetedcarapace It’s interesting how certain aspects of the musicians get spotlighted and magnified. Labi Siffre was never really seen as “folk” before, but it’s his acoustic songs that are most popular now.
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One aspect of streaming platforms and algorithms that seems Less Bad is that sometimes artists who were underappreciated geniuses in their time are rediscovered by young people and they get an entire second act.
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Labi Siffre, the 80-year-old British folk musician, has announced his first new album in nearly three decades pitchfork.com/news/labi-siff…
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