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 […]
As I sit here in the archive, playing an American copy of The Kinks’ 1967 album Something Else on the Reprise label, I’m in awe at how prolific Ray Davies was as a writer – but on this album it wasn’t just Ray. Although The Kinks first album, released in 1964, had been made up […]
Scott Walker was born in Hamilton, Ohio, as Noel Scott Engel in 1943. After much moving around the US as a child he found himself in California in the late fifties where an interest in acting and music saw some moderate success culminating in him playing bass as a session musician and as a member […]
The most polarizing Stones album of all, despite its melodic, fun-filled Psychedelia. It’s mostly criticised for jumping on the Psychedelic bandwagon and ripping off the Beatles after Sgt. Pepper. I guess you’re never allowed to rip off your contemporaries but you are allowed to rip off your heroes as both The Stones and The Beatles […]
When I was 9 years old I bought this catchy single probably after hearing it on the radio, no picture sleeve, no video. I was completely unaware of the Johnny Cash/June Carter version. I was also completely unaware that Nancy Sinatra was the spitting image of Lady Penelope! (See the video below). Of course the […]
Undeniably one of the great songs of the sixties, The Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset stalled at No.2 on the UK chart, unable to dislodge The Tremeloes Silence Is Golden from the No.1 spot. In America it didn’t chart at all, blame laid on the quintessentially English lyric – so explain Our House by Madness No.7 in the […]