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May 13, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Zombi: ZOMBI & Friends, Volume 1

Zombi ZOMBI & Friends, Volume 1 Relapse Records The prolific Zombi (Steve Moore on bass and synths, Anthony Paterra on drums) reached out to a few friends (members of Trans Am, The Sword Zao and Pinkish Black) to help them realise a few choice power-pop and prog-lite covers. It’s a wonderful range of music that […]
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February 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

John Powell: Film Suites, Vol. 1

John Powell Film Suites, Vol. 1 John Powell / 5 Cat Studios John Powell is a British composer who has been based in America for most of the last quarter century. There he has quality amassed some 50 individual film score credits as sole composer and has collaborated with many other big names – including […]
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April 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Boy George: This Is What I Dub, Vol. 1

Boy George This Is What I Dub, Vol. 1 BGP Records If Lou Reed and Keith Richards were the two at the top of the list of rock stars most likely to not survive the 1970s then in the late 1990s and across the 00s it was the two Georges:  Georgios Panayiotou (aka George Michael) […]
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November 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: End Of The Larkin Line

When the first Traveling Wilburys album was released we took a drive into Hastings – Friday night, late night shopping…it was me and my brother in the back of the car (our usual spots) and mum and dad up front. They bought the album – on cassette tape. No CDs then – not in our […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bob Dylan, Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, End Of The Larkin Line, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Philip Larkin, Poem, Poem: End Of The Larkin Line, Roy Orbison, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1 ·

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July 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 855

Val Doonican, The World of Val Doonican (1969) Well it’s R.I.P. ole Val I guess. Val Doonican never meant that much to me beyond seeing this album – and a couple of others in the multi-volume virus – in my grandparents’ house, in in so many junk stores and second-handers ever since. (Especially the book-stores […]
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June 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 871

Earl Hines, The Legendary Little Theater Concert Of 1964, Volume 1 (1979) Earl “Fatha” Hines, great pianist, but I only own this LP, I haven’t hunted out anything much else of his. Had a couple of CDs along the way. I bought this, though, about a decade ago I guess. My folks had surprised me […]
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