Before David A. Stewart became so famous with Eurythmics that he could appear with French teenage sensation Vanessa Paradis (shorty after her making a record with the iconic Serge Gainsbourg in her songwriting team) he had been in New Wave pop group The Tourists, scoring some minor hits on Logo records until a cover of Dusty Springfield’s […]
Holly Woodlawn, transgender Warhol superstar and the inspiration for one of the characters from Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side, has died in Los Angeles aged 69. Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl was born in Puerto Rico in 1946 and grew up in Miami. The line: “Holly came from Miami, F-L-A, hitchhiked her way across […]
Jimmy Ruffin will be most remembered as the singer of What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted, a hit for Tamla Motown on both sides of the Atlantic in 1966 and then again in 1974. The song was written by James Dean, Paul Riser and William Weatherspoon and was originally intended for The Detroit Spinners. Jimmy […]
As their is no live footage of Arzachel this is a clip put together by a fan on You Tube. It is a track from Egg’s 1971 second album featuring three members of Arzachel, Dave Stewart and Clive Brooks with Mont Campbell singing about their times in their previous band. It’s as Prog as Prog […]
Although the story of Arzachel may be a little complicated, a trip to the Uriel, Steve Hillage and Egg links will explain the story, but the short version is as follows: Arzachel is in fact Uriel who are in fact three quarters of Egg with Steve Hillage. Hm, maybe that’s not quite clear – Ok […]