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May 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Fleetwood Mac

The soap-opera of Fleetwood Mac has had me hooked since I was about 10 or 12.  There was a doco – a bit of late-night music-TV   that filled in all the blanks. I was, as a kid, already a fan, but I had no idea how the same band that sang Sara and Sweet Little Lies had jammed out an instrumental called Albatross.  My brother recorded this thing called Fleetwood […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Doco, Documentary, Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac at 21, FM, Poem, Poem: Fleetwood Mac, Soap Opera ·

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December 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 783

V/A, The Young and The Restless Horizon [OST] (1974) I loved that music – as a kid, sick days from school or home from kindergarten – my mum watching the soaps. I can remember the music without hearing it. Play the music, as on this record, and I can remember attempting conversations with my mum […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1974, Barry De Vorzon, Bless The Beasts And Children, Cotton's Dream, LP, Nadia's Theme, Perry Botkin Jr, Record, Sebastien Tellier, Soap Opera, Soundtrack, The Vinyl Countdown # 783, The Young And The Restless, TV, Vinyl ·

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