Virtually everybody loves music, loves listening to it, loves playing it, loves exploring it or just loves being around others who do. Great artists come and go from our attention, from my attention, as whims and tastes change but every once in a while someone comes out of nowhere and changes everything. I discovered Jacob […]
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Bands come and go year bye year, decade by decade. There are however some bands that live on decades later as anchors or focal points to significant periods of our lives. They don’t even have to be favorites or even liked but when we hear them we are instantly transported back years or decade as […]
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During the climax of one of Adele’s most beloved songes the arena burst into a ticker tape shower. Little snippets of paper with hand written messages flittered into the crowd, into the stands and out into the parklands beyond the stadium. “hello”, “Twas your song through every open door” and “… to stand in your […]
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A long time ago in a world far, far away two musicians were making waves amid the wonderful new sounds being created in the 80’s music scene. For me the songs and sounds of Howard Jones captured my imagination and resonated with my hopes, fears and dreams. For many of my friends the rockier, rawer […]
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Who’d have thought I’d be kicking back and enjoying rocking to Kim and Ricky Wilde 35 years on! As much as I loved many of Kim Wilde’s songs I would never have called myself a fan so I would never had found myself here without just a little encouragement. Once I discovered she was on […]
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