The Unknown Soldier was Roy Harper’s tenth and last studio album for Harvest Records. Released in 1980, You was co-written with old friend Dave Gilmour and featured a duet with Kate Bush. Although Kate Bush was enjoying enormous success at the time, this amazing track seems to be off most Kate Bush fans’ radar (three […]
When Kate Bush wanted a proper Rock and Roll bass player to drive her powerful and weird music on her experimental album, The Dreaming in 1982 – she called Jimmy Bain. When John Cale was looking for a bass player for a European tour – he called Jimmy Bain. When Roy Harper duetted with Kate […]
September 18th seems to be a popular date to release a new album in mega-star land as Dave Gilmour releases a new track from his forthcoming, first album in 10 years, Rattle That Lock. The first single might be a little too aware of the need to succeed, too in need to tick all the boxes, catchy […]
It’s not often that you find reason to post Smoke On The Water, overplayed and equally hated and loved, this old chestnut is another example of riff vs song. (Posting Smoke On The Water is rather like playing Stairway To Heaven in a guitar shop). Despite Smoke On The Water’s verse, chorus, lyric and vocal melody […]
Like The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd have not had the creative fire burning inside of them since the release of The Wall 35 years ago (or in The Stones case parts of Tattoo You, an album of outtakes from a richer period in their history). As Roger Waters indulged his demons on The Final Cut (1983) and […]
One of the most influential records that led me to immerse myself in music was the Syd Barrett song, See Emily Play by The Pink Floyd (in those days there was a prefix). The record had such a wonderful sound and Emily seemed to be such a mysterious and magical figure – Emily dwelled in a fantasy land […]