It seemed rather depressing to enter into a new year with the death of an old hand, but as Dean Ford left us on the last day of 2018 one cautiously wonders who will be leaving us as we move into 2019? One other noticeable thing for me is just how forgotten a lot of […]
Holly Woodlawn, transgender Warhol superstar and the inspiration for one of the characters from Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side, has died in Los Angeles aged 69. Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl was born in Puerto Rico in 1946 and grew up in Miami. The line: “Holly came from Miami, F-L-A, hitchhiked her way across […]
If she had been called Lesley Gore today she would have been the singer in a blood curdling death metal band, as it happens she was born in the forties as Lesley Sue Goldstein – how they came upon Gore as an alternative to the family name remains a mystery but like the other famous Gores, […]
It might not be exactly clear as to how a kaftan clad, bearded Greek born in Egypt, fleeing his country due to a military coup and arriving in Paris instead of London, finding an audience in France anyway and then making a Progressive Rock album called 666 before embarking on a middle of the road […]
As the lead singer in an Australian band formed in the sixties, Jim Keays and The Masters Apprentices may have been off the radar for most of the world, but the memorable music they made only attracts more and more fans as the years go by. It is with great sadness that we hear of Keays’ […]