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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Whitney, Can I Be Me: Film

Whitney, Can I Be Me Director: Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal Lafayette Films/Passion Pictures/Showtime Networks A subtly powerful documentary that gets its strength and credibility through the use of footage from a never-before-seen fly-on-the-wall 1999 tour doco (that’s Dolezal’s footage, hence the co-directing credit), it seems important to get out of the way, right away, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bobby Brown, Can I Be Me: Film, Can I Be Me?, Cissy Houston, Clive Davis, Diva, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Movie, Movie Review, Nick Broomfield, Pop Music, Robyn Crawford, Rudi Dolezal, Soul Train, Whitney, Whitney Can I Be Me, Whitney Houston ·

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December 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 971

Bobby Brown, Don’t Be Cruel (1988) My favourite rediscovery of 2014 – no joke, no shame, no guilty-pleasure bullshit. I mean it. I found this record in a chuck-out bin, a coupla bucks, and it was that silly, giddy rush of nostalgia that hit. Head on. Taken, straight away, back to a bus-ride home from […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1988, Bobby Brown, Don't Be Cruel, Ghostbusters 2, Gisborne, LP, My Prerogative, Nostalgia, On Our Own, Vinyl ·

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August 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1302

Sonic Youth, Goo (1990) I had the tape – my first Sonic Youth tape but not the first album I heard by them. The first one I owned though and the first that totally pulled me in. Swapped it for a Bobby Brown tape. Go figure – that’s gotta rank as one of the music world’s […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1990, 4LP box-set, B-Sides, Bobby Brown, Deluxe Edition, Goo, Karen Carpenter, LP, My Friend Goo, Rarities, Sonic Youth, Tunic (Song For Karen), Vinyl ·

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June 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Cissy Houston: Remembering Whitney

Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Died Cissy Houston Harper Collins Considering this is – apparently – about Remembering Whitney, about “the night the music died” there’s not a lot of Whitney in here and not a lot of remembering. Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mum, is of course entitled/qualified […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bobby Brown, Book Review, Cissy Houston, Loss and the Night the Music Died, Remembering Whitney, Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Love, Whitney Houston ·

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