Keith Richards’ raunchy and thoroughly entertaining autobiography ‘Life’ is the best rock memoir I’ve read since Dylan’s ‘Chronicles’. Shambling and shameless, ‘Life’ stumbles along like…
While hippies enjoyed “three days of peace and love” in Woodstock, another equally important music festival was staged in Harlem. What’s become known as Black…
Sammy Davis Jr leads Max Harris’ ‘Dee Time’ orchestra in an utterly-unrehearsed version of the then-new Bacharach/David number ‘This Guy’s In Love With You’. The…
Today is the 53rd birthday of the great Mister Julian Cope! As regular readers of this blog know, I think Cope is one of the…
He says, “I’ve seen the Beatles on television and have heard of few of their songs. It’s not my kind of thing. I prefer classical…
Irish Elvis impersonator James “The King” Brown does a sultry version of Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’. I was never a Nirvana fan, but I…
Sammy Davis Jr. scats for Suntory whiskey, 1974. Adlibs followed by the final take. Via Cherrybombed
In this fascinating article, written for Crawdaddy magazine in 1977, William Burroughs explores the music of Led Zeppelin and discusses Crowley, infra-sound, magic, Moroccan trance…
A young Nina Hagen doing a punky—some might call it demonic—live cover version of “Ziggy Stadust” around the time of her Unbehagen album in 1980.…