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November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #4 – Bob Dylan

You will have to trust that I was going to write about Bob Dylan anyway. It’s time to mark him down in my files just as I have with Neil Young and Mike Nock and Paul Simon (and you can click those links to read the entries about each of them) in my series “Heroes […]

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November 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #3 – Mike Nock

Mike Nock is a Kiwi – but he left New Zealand when he was still a teenager. He travelled to Australia, then England and onto America. Largely self-taught he went from playing nightclubs and dinner jazz to being part of Dionne Warwick’s band, to working with the great Yusef Lateef – check out the startling […]

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October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #2 – Neil Young

Earlier this year I reviewed the brand new Neil Young album another live record from him, another weird one from Uncle Neil. Only Neil Young could give up smoking marijuana and then release a live album where he replaced the audience applause with animal noises. When I was writing that review I thought that Neil […]

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October 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heroes Live: #1 – Paul Simon

As important as it might be to pay respects and write tribute articles when we hear about the passing of our musical heroes isn’t it nice – also – to celebrate them, in print, while they’re alive. I tried to do that recently with Willie Nelson. Just woke up one day and felt like writing […]