Continuing this month’s theme – Politician appeared on Cream’s third album, Wheels Of Fire, released in 1968 – the world’s first Platinum selling double album. Produced by future Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi who also played organ, viola and trumpet, the album consisted of one disc of studio recordings and one disc of live recordings from New York’s Fillmore […]
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released Déjà Vu in March 1970 with the album going all the way to the top of the US and the Australian charts, reaching No.5 in the UK. Stephen Stills debut album was released in November 1970 opening Side 1 with the hit single, Love The One You’re With, the album […]
Giorgio Gomelsky was born in Georgia and grew up in Switzerland and was essentially a Jazz fanatic with impresario skills and a knack for getting publicity. Throughout his career as a manager, club owner, songwriter, film maker and ideas man, Giorgio Gomelsky played significant parts in the careers of sixties icons like The Rolling Stones, […]
The Who, The Sixties, Tommy The Rock Opera – but have you ever seen the film? Released in 1975 and directed by Ken Russell, I saw it when it came out at a cinema somewhere on The Wirral, Wallasey perhaps? It was 40 years ago! The film is much maligned but I consider it to be […]
The Yardbirds and screaming girls singing their biggest hit, For Your Love in 1965 with singer Keith Relf looking very cool and ahead of his time. The song was written by Graham Gouldman, later bassist with 10cc. Gouldman also wrote sixties classic, No Milk Today For Herman’s Hermits and Look Through Any Window and Bus […]
As bassist and singer in Cream, one of the world’s greatest bands, Jack Bruce was a legend before his 25th birthday. At the age of 19 he was a memeber of Alexis Corner’s Blues Incorporated, next he was in a band with Graham Bond evolving into The Graham Bond Organisation with Ginger Baker before John […]