Who were the great lyricists before Dylan? Well, from the fifties into the sixties you would probably say the men that wrote the words for the musicals, writers like Lorenz Hart. Hart wrote the lyrics for The Lady Is A Tramp and My Funny Valentine and was Richard Rodgers partner till alcoholism (Hart died tragically of […]
There was a time when singers/artists/comedians/musicians were entertainers – irony just wasn’t in. There was no such thing as a non-communicative performer, you sat down you were entertained, you weren’t supposed to penetrate the soul of the artist, judge his worth, his sincerity and then applaud him from the inside – he/she was supposed to […]