Posts Tagged The Beatles
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October 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Those Early Musical Experiences That Stick
DD Smash. Napier. Marine Parade, Soundshell. 1984. I was at primary school. I loved DD Smash. Well, I liked them. Well, I knew that one song Outlook for Thursday. But more importantly, my brother liked DD Smash. And mum and dad did too. They didn’t like them enough to pay – so we sat outside on the concrete, with a […]Archive
June 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
All I Am Saying Is Give Yoko A Chance
Yoko Ono. She is nearly 90. She might not be with us for much longer. I don’t think we’ve really appreciated her as an artist in her own right, for her amazing talents – and in her role too as the love of John Lennon’s life. That’s important – when The Beatles broke up both […]Archive
March 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Ed Palermo Big Band: The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III – Run For Your Life
Ed Palermo Big Band The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run For Your Life Sky Cat / CD Baby The Ed Palermo Big Band is a proper big band – all the horns! – but they love nothing more than taking classic rock and pop tunes and making some hybrid/novelty work out of them. The […]Archive
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 […]Archive
December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Come Together – Abbey Road (December 10, Wellington)
Come Together: Abbey Road Opera House Thursday, December 10 Last year some of New Zealand’s best known, much loved musicians banded together and delivered a concert replication of Neil Young’s Live Rust album/show – I went along slightly cynical. I left impressed with the effort – it showcased that wonderful music in the very best […]Archive
December 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: The Solo Career of John Lennon
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. But how to finish with John Lennon? Well there was the […]Archive
December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Dear Prudence,
My parents planned to name me Prudence if I was a girl. I wasn’t – so that is pretty much that. I hated the name – but loved the song; when I heard it was because my dad always loved that tune from The White Album it made more sense, or something like that. Now […]Archive
November 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Ryan Brady (Take It Away Podcast)
There’s a special bond that develops with radio hosts – and now podcast hosts – and their long-time listeners. Usually we don’t meet, we often have no idea what the person looks like. But we carry their voice in our head. We listen to them for hours and hours and we form a picture in […]Archive
October 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ulf Wakenius: Taste of Honey
Ulf Wakenius Taste of Honey ACT Music Ulf Wakenius is a Swedish jazz guitarist that worked with both Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson later in their careers as part of trios and quartets. He’s released well over a dozen albums as a leader (going back to 1984) and has collaborated and cameoed with many artists […]Archive
August 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Movement You Need Is On Your Shoulder
You find wisdom in different places, it’s in the traces of what a person says. Today’s – for example: My 8-year old boy told me that Paul McCartney “might laugh a lot and giggle but he is never ever funny”. So take on board that note, as you make your sandwich, as you eat your […]Archive
August 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman