When you come from another planet you simply have to do everything yourself. You have to play the bass, the guitar, the keys, the sax, the drums, you have to sing it, produce it, engineer it, mix it, edit it, cut it, you have to write it, promote it and you have to do your […]
The transition from Blues, Beat or any form of Pop proved difficult for some of the more succesful bands of the early sixties. The Hollies and The Stones cautiously tinkered with psychedelia with mixed results, but the one of the most unlikely and successful transitions was Cream with their album Disraeli Gears. Sgt. Pepper’s June […]
When Skylarking was released in 1986, I must have been in America because I remember having it on pre-recorded cassette. These little convenient plastic boxes of sound were extremely popular there – more popular than anywhere else I’d been. It was something to do with the car culture, everyone had a car, everyone had a […]