Category Archives: Rock

Little Richard………comes to Manchester in 1963

Posted on June 10, 2017 by kindadukish

In 1963 I was fifteen years old and just getting into my stride with pop music. There was little opportunity to listen to pop music as the BBC rigidly controlled the airwaves and looked down on popular music with considerable … Continue reading →

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Scott Walker…………a wondrous voice

Posted on June 8, 2017 by kindadukish

During a recent bout of redecorating the house (not by me I might add) I had to move all my CDs and store all 800 of them, into boxes for safekeeping. This was an onerous task and one I had … Continue reading →

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State of Independence – Jon Anderson and Todmobile

Posted on March 3, 2017 by kindadukish

There are a number of versions of the song State of Independence which was written and first performed by Jon Anderson (of Yes) and Vangelis on the market. The original is probably the definitive version although many argue that the … Continue reading →

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Rob Wasserman……..bassist extraordinaire

Posted on July 22, 2016 by kindadukish

A couple of days ago I was doing a musical search on YouTube and came across a track by an artist I had never heard of, namely Rob Wasserman I discovered that Wasserman was a Grammy-winning highly respected bass player and … Continue reading →

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Kelvingrove Museum and Solomon Burke

Posted on June 15, 2016 by kindadukish

Paid a visit to the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow today and as I walked in the entrance I was met with a display of heads hanging from the ceiling which are lit up with different colours. The expressions on the … Continue reading →

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“Lust for Life”……..Iggy Pop

Posted on May 23, 2016 by kindadukish

To corrupt an old saying, “there are old rock singers and there are wild rock singers, but there are very few old and wild rock singers” but one who seems to have survived and fit the latter category is Iggy … Continue reading →

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Billy Joel……….”River of Dreams”

Posted on March 9, 2016 by kindadukish

Billy Joel has been around for as long as I  can remember and has had numerous hits in both the UK and USA, most notably Uptown Girl, Tell Her About it and An Innocent Man. He was often labelled as … Continue reading →

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The greatest rock band of all time………..

Posted on February 2, 2016 by kindadukish

My musical education started in the earl 1960s with the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and the godfather of British R&B Cyril Davis. I then began to investigate original Blues artists such as Sleepy John Estes, Sony Terry and Brownie Mcghee, … Continue reading →

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David Byrne……………a unique talent

Posted on August 25, 2015 by kindadukish

It was the 1980 album “Remain in Light” and the single “Once in a Lifetime” that first alerted me to the band Talking Heads and caused me to explore more about their music. The album has subsequently gone on to … Continue reading →

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Vangelis……..and the Greek “Bolero”

Posted on August 21, 2015 by kindadukish

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943), professionally known as Vangelis is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, rock and orchestral music He is best known for his Academy Award winning score for the film Chariots of Fire … Continue reading →

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