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October 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Reconnecting With Billy Cobham: His Best Solo Works

Autobiographies are often 500 or 600 pages long – sometimes more than that. Greatest hits albums are double-discs or stretch to 19 or 20 tracks. You can’t help but get the feeling that the artist is most definitely their own biggest fan. Not many are prepared to write a 150 or 200-page memoir but when […]

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September 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 627

Billy Cobham, The Best of Billy Cobham (1979) Maybe I had heard some of his pre-solo stuff first – I’m sure I had, even if maybe I didn’t even know that it was him but certainly hearing this Billy Cobham compilation was one of the formative experiences for me in the beginning of my CD-buying […]

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September 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Sheila E: The Beat of My Own Drum – A Memoir

The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir Sheila E. with Wendy Holden Atria Books Here is one of the single best music memoirs I’ve ever read – sure, it helps I’m already a fan, I found out about Sheila E. through her work with Prince, of course. But I was soon well aware of […]

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December 15, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1221

Billy Cobham, The  Best of Billy Cobham (1980) One of my all-time favourite CDs – one I listened to so much as a teenager, particularly – was this version of a Billy Cobham best-of, with all the best stuff he’s known/revered for like Stratus – and Snoopy’s Search/Red Baron. I was in awe of this guy […]