Tag Archives: Carpenters

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14/11/16 – Leon Russell – April 2 1942 – November 13 2016 / Hall Of Fame Induction By Elton John – 2011 / Talking About Songwriting / A Song For You – 1970 – A Song For You – Live – 1971 / Carpenters – Superstar – 1971 / Joe Cocker And The Grease Band – Delta Lady – 1969 / George Benson – This Masquerade

After a political thread that inspired wonderful, meaningful songs about righting the world’s wrongs, Donald Trump was elected president of the USA – then Leonard Cohen died. I left London and flew to Stockholm to rehearse with Anekdoten and then in turn flew to Holland to play, leaving the following day to drive to Germany – […]

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15/5/14 – Leon Russell – Delta Lady Live – 1970 – Beware Of Darkness with George Harrison – Concert for Bangladesh – 1971 – A Song For You – Live With Willie Nelson & Ray Charles – 2003 – Big Lips – 2014 – A Song For You – The Carpenters – 1971

  Here’s some Leon Russell videos from his extensive career. Starting with a fantastic version of Delta Lady in the studio from 1970 complete with two false starts. His voice rips, the songs rocks. Celebratory soulful R’n’R at it’s very best. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_russell         Beware Of Darkness – Concert for Bangladesh with George Harrison […]

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13/3/14 – Carpenters – Live At the BBC – 1971

The phrase, “They’re so straight they’re weird.” may have been coined to describe Carpenters – yes that’s Carpenters, not The Carpenters, they dropped the ‘The’ because Richard Carpenter thought that it would be cooler ” like Buffalo Springfield of Jefferson Airplane”.  He thought in terms of what might be cool? Really? Welcome then to the […]