(You Gotta Walk) Don’t Look Back was originally recorded by The Temptations in 1965 as Don’t Look Back. It was written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, co-founder (and only original member) of The Miracles. With many cover versions, perhaps the most notable is Bobby Womack’s version from his 1970 album My Prescription. There’s also […]
The Model was never actually intended to be a single in its English translation. Released as a single in Germany from the 1978 album Die Mensch-Maschine, the English language version only found its way onto a single as the B side to the title track from their following album Computer Love (1981) reaching No. 36 in […]
Travelling to Germany from Ireland means a change of direction for In Deep posts and having been in Cologne, Dortmund and Dusseldorf in the last three days, it seemed appropriate to investigate some of the bands from the area of western Germany. Last night was Dusseldorf, so after being in their home town, I simply […]
Two bands from Northern Ireland that made lasting impressions. Originating in the Punk scene, Stiff Little Fingers were from Belfast, formerly a Deep Purple covers band called Highway Star, till they discovered Punk Rock and forming as Stiff Little Fingers in 1977. They sang about “The Troubles” and were an edgy, growling powerful four piece. […]
Leaving Nantucket island on a beautiful day, leaving the soft sound of whispering summer sand and the heavy thump of sacks of gold coins falling out of the back of Maserati SUV’s loosening the cobblestones and shaking the grey (gray) cedar tiles from the facades of multi-roomed mansions. Twelve hours later arriving at the Port […]
Anyone lucky enough to be 21 or thereabouts in 1979 will remember all the great New Wave hits between 1977 and 1980. One of them was Lucky Number by the inimitable Lene Lovich. She had the voice of an owl locked in a tree, the look of a Dickensian 19th century doll dressed for a banquet […]