It’s hard to understate the impact this album (and Fools Gold) had on me, and also their interviews of the time as a 16 year old. Growing up there was still a huge amount of tribalism among my friends inherited […]

You’d need to add Whodunnit

Sad news. Like many people growing up in the 80s Steve Wright was a huge part of my everyday life through the radio on the school bus journey home and my first job in a shop , on my clock radio while doing my […]

Reference to a rumour that went round the music press during the making of Second Coming that IB had completely lost the plot and had started referring to himself as King Monkey

@arthur cowslip I think the one thing all the released versions miss is it would have needed to be around 45 mins long to fit on 2 sides of vinyl.

Never had an issue with legit CDs but had an absolute nightmare trying to get an MP3 based tracklist of Smile burnt onto a CD-R with no gaps between the tracks. Was back in the early 2000s before any full album […]

Sounds like Daryl Hall felt John Oates eyes watching him and seeing his every move.

Stanley Kubrick’s last film was Full Metal Jacket The Coen Brothers stopped after Oh Brother Where Art Thou Ridley Scott packed it in after Blade Runner

Pink Floyd call it a day after Wish You Were Here, a final quote from the melody of See Emily Play in the fade out of Shine On You Crazy Diamond providing a last poignant reference to their founder.

I’m not surprised but still frustrated by the lack of consistency in points deductions. Have seen plenty of people saying Everton have a 10 point deduction but other clubs have been given 9 points for going into […]

These are good and have a number of courses at various levels from beginner up, plus lessons on particular songs

Both this and Fear of a Black Planet sound like the most fire breathing Free Jazz with Clyde Stubblefield and Jabbo Starks on drums (this is very much a good thing)

I’m sure there are areas where AI will be used extensively in music (and is starting to be already). This is for more ‘production line’ pieces like some pop and catalogue/soundtrack music that needs to be done […]

You don’t necessarily need multiple mics to record a kit or even a whole band. But having more (poss one for each drum, or additional mics closer and/or further away from the kit) allows you to mix the drums and […]

I prefer some of the fan made versions that kept all the sections from the original demo, it feels like they have flattened out some of the quirks and lost some of the ‘Lennon-ness’ as a result. Undeniably […]

Oh absolutely. Also (and thanks to your avatar for inspiration) – Lowell George

This is a bit of an obvious one but would have loved more Syd Barrett releases, either with Floyd or without

Richard Page is power ballad royalty. He was offered the gig to replace Bobby Kimball in Toto and also was offered the lead singer with Chicago when Peter Cetera left.

Seems like a huge amount of musicians tried their guitars and basses at one point or another

Those Steinberger guitars were everywhere for a short time weren’t they. Bowie and Reeves Gabrels also used them in Tin Machine, Mike Rutherford used one for a while as did Lou Reed and others.