Music today wanted to be another early Genesis album, their second, Trespass, released this month in 1970. On release, it didn’t chart and sold just 6,000 copies BUT it went to No.1 in Belgium which was appropriately topical after today’s game. It was the first and last album for their third drummer John Mayhew before […]
Music today has been very weird. I woke up Olivia today with another Genesis treat and put on Foxtrot for her as she rose from her golden slumbers. The album was released this month in 1972, a mere 38 years ago. How come it sounds so good when so much music from beyond the seventies […]
Music today was early as I had a session late with Noel, French, writing and another bout with the diamonds that made me close my eyes and wish away any oncoming pain, it seemed to work but I lost a lot of time. It might have been the fact that I didn’t have to get […]
Music today is the other two Van Halen records which for some reason I didn’t play in chronological order – Women And Children First (1980) and 1984 (1984). These are the last two albums before the Sammy Hagar era and it only took Why Can’t This Be Love to lose them for me from here […]
Music today is continuing with the much-missed Eddie Van Halen. Yesterday the Song Of The Daze was Jump, the reason being was that it looked like such a happy time for Eddie and the lads in the band, smiling his way through the video and playing a killer solo. Today it’s Fair Warning (1981) and […]
Music today comes with the shocking news that Eddie Van Halen has died of cancer at the age of 65. I knew he was sick, I’d heard a rumour but to lose this giant of the electric guitar is hard to take. All those virtuosos, all those unbelievable guitar players that adopted that style that […]