Although Lou Reed declared that the lyrics to The Black Angel’s Death Song were without meaning and were just about the sound of the words, it’s the closest that Lou Reed ever got to Bob Dylan with colourful language. Written in 1966 and released in 1967 – at this point Dylan was on his eighth […]
Nico and The Faction in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1986 performing, Das Lied Vom Einsamen Mädchen (The Song Of The Lonely Girl). Most of Nico’s songs were sung in English and although she was born Christa Päffgen in Cologne in 1938, I read that she sang the German songs with an English accent, never wanting to be known as […]
Recorded shortly after the release of the seminal 1967 album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Nico’s aptly titled Chelsea Girl saw the emergence of a strange, chiseled ice maiden from Berlin, finding her way into the New York art scene and leaving her unique mark – no pun intended. Born In Cologne in 1938 as […]
This is a live version of the opening track from John Cale’s Fear album, filmed at the Crystal Palace Bowl in 1975 and featuring Chris Spedding on guitar. Cale was known for some unpredictable wild acts in the seventies. At one show he chopped the head off a dead chicken with a meat cleaver – […]
John Cale, co-founder of The Velvet Underground, Welshman, songwriter, singer, producer and multi instrumentalist, playing viola, cello, guitar, bass and piano. Cale has also been extremely prolific making more than 30 albums and in later years he has been working on soundtracks and ballet. I saw him live twice, both times in Sydney, once solo in […]