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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Features: The Beatles one by one…

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. It started late November in 2018. Jesse Mulligan asked me if […]
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August 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 82

The Beatles, Ticket To Ride [Single] (1965) I don’t have that many singles by The Beatles so when I saw this I had to grab it. Ticket To Ride is a song for the ages for the innovation of the drumbeat alone. One of the many examples of Ringo’s brilliance. Sample Track 1: (Side A): […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1965, A-side, B-side, Countdown, Help!, LP, Record, Ringo Starr, Single, The Beatles, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 82, Ticket To Ride, Vinyl, Yes It Is ·

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July 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

They Say It’s Your Birthday – 80 Great Thingos By (and about) Ringo: Ringo Starr at 80

1. He was the first drummer to use a drum-riser on TV; sales of sticks and kits went up about 400% the next day after his appearance on Ed Sullivan. 2. The drum feels and fills and groove of Rain 3. Ringo’s malapropisms, wit and rejoinders. He gave us the lines that fed into Eight […]
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December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Harry Nilsson: Losst And Founnd

Harry Nilsson Losst And Founnd Omnivore Recordings Well, it’s here now – you can hear it – the final (posthumous) Harry Nilsson album. The record Harry was working on in the mid-90s. He laid down the vocal cuts on what was to be his comeback album. He hadn’t recorded a record since the late-1970s; the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1994, 2019, Album Review, Covers, Harry Nilsson, Harry Nilsson: Losst And Founnd, Jim Keltner, Jimmy Webb, Keifo Nilsson, Losst And Founnd, Mark Hudson, posthumous, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, Van Dyke Parks, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 202

Paul McCartney, Pipes of Peace (1983) Of all the Paul McCartney material to be reissued this is the one I hated the most hearing it the second time around – I had lost love for it, rather than gained any. And I say that as a fan of the title track purely because my intermediate […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1983, 80s, LP, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Pipes of Peace, Record, Ringo Starr, Say Say Say, So Bad, The Beatles, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 202, Vinyl ·

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November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 16 – Paul McCartney, “Give My Regards To Broad Street”

Paul McCartney, Give My Regards To Broad Street, 1984 John Lennon makes a good greatest hits – Paul McCartney less so. With Paul it’s an album-by-album thing; he doesn’t excerpt well. Maybe because his biggest solo hits have been the “cheese” that turns so many off him. There’s certainly a lot of buried treasure in […]
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November 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Re-Righting The White Album: Choose Your Own Tracklisting

When Steve Gunn was in town last week I recorded a conversation with him for a future episode of Sweetman Podcast. You’ll get to hear that soon and it was a lovely chat. By the end of it we were geeking out over The Beatles and many other things to do with music. And then […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Beatles, Blog, Choose Your Own Tracklisting, George, George Harrison, John, John Lennon, Paul, Paul McCartney, Re-Righting The White Album, Re-Righting The White Album: Choose Your Own Tracklisting, Ringo, Ringo Starr, Spotify, Steve Gunn, The Beatles, Tracklisting, White Album, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ringo Starr: What’s My Name

Ringo Starr What’s My Name Ringo Starr Every other Ringo Starr album is “the best thing he’s done in 30 years” – no one checks to see what album came out 30 years ago when they say that, they just assume it’s the requisite amount of distance. The alternate ones are dogshit and best forgotten, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Colin Hay, Joe Walsh, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Ringo Starr: What’s My Name, Solo Album, Steve Lukather, What's My Name, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: We Listen To The Beatles

We listen to The Beatles because they’re the best band in the world – they mean the most to the largest number of people – and yeah, that’s changing and that’s all good too – but when my son asks me if this is a Paul or a John or a George song, or tells […]
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September 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Beatles: Abbey Road – Anniversary Super Deluxe

The Beatles Abbey Road: Anniversary Super Deluxe Capitol It’s the 50th Anniversary of the last album The Beatles recorded together – and its available in a spangling new package with a book and outtakes and straight away you might wonder if you need to purchase it again and the answer is, ultimately that you will […]
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September 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Abbey Road at 50

It’s The 50th Anniversary of Abbey Road which means it’s pretty much the 30th Anniversary of me listening to Abbey Road. It might not be the best Beatles album but it’s my favourite. And that’s always been the way. And yes, there are new mixes and outtakes – but today to celebrate we took the […]
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May 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 170: Gregg Bissonette

Welcome to episode 170 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here’s a 35-minute conversation I nabbed with […]
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