It’s Bob Dylan’s birthday. He was born on May 24th 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota and today he is 81 years old. Dylan’s paternal grandparents were from Odesa in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, not any more. I thought today as Olivia is leaving at 7 AM for Germany, I’d just write a couple […]

Music today has been The Move’s four albums, Move (1968), Shazam (1970), Looking On (1970) and Message From The Country (1971). It’s an interesting history that went from a slew of Top 20 singles in the sixties, Night Of Fear, I Can Hear The Grass Grow, Flowers In The Rain, Fire Brigade, Blackberry Way, Curly, […]

Music today was Neil Young’s After The Goldrush, his third album, released in 1970. It has the classic title track covered by Patti Smith, K.d. Lang, Thom Yorke, Billy Corgan, Natalie Merchant, Dolly, Emmylou and Linda, and Prelude who famously had a worldwide hit with it a cappella in the seventies. Music Of The Daze […]

Music today came in the wake of the death of Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou aged 79. Too many albums and soundtracks to list here although one must probably mention his most famous, Chariots Of Fire and Blade Runner. Before his solo work, he was a member with that other most famous Greek, Demis Roussos, in the […]

Music today has been Miles Davis – Live-Evil (1971), ready to blow your mind. The cover art is by Mati Klarwein, Santana – Abraxas (1970) is one of his. Music Of The Daze The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO WHERE I AM NOW, featured on my main […]

Music today was inspired by a guy in the gym who was wearing a Doors T-shirt. The T-shirt was the cover of the first album (1967) but he told me that L.A. Woman (1971), their sixth album, was his favourite, so that’s the album of the day. Jim Morrison died three months after its release. […]