As we were playing some very early Bowie clips in the last post, I thought it was about time that we tried to illustrate the Anthony Newley influence that all early Bowie articles refer to. Here’s Newley in some different eras performing in the US and the UK. He was a singer a songwriter, an […]
Although overplayed and parodied by Neil from The Young Ones, this single seriously blew my 9 year old mind in 1967. I hadn’t seen the video till decades later and you probably hadn’t either, so let yourself relive this psychedelic trip and you can transport yourself back to the era, meld with the mellotron, have a love-in with […]
Blind Faith have been classified as one of the first supergroups and the band did contain famous members, but there was something wonderfully organic about their music that makes this album much more interesting than the headlines at the time about who was in the band. In fact the record was not well received by […]
The debut gig of Blind Faith not that long after the demise of Cream. Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Rick Grech – (Winwood from Traffic and The Spencer Davies Group, Grech from Family). What I love about this concert is how soft and calm it all is. No canopy for the stage, […]