‘Truly’ awesome: Lionel Richie lyrics embroidered on discarded furniture
The forlorn feelings elicited by unloved, unattached furniture just sitting around in some public place make them a fit canvas for the lyrics of a…
Music Archives: 12/2013
‘Mull of Kintyre’: Paul McCartney’s sweet holiday perennial
“Mull Of Kintyre” was written by Paul McCartney (with Denny Laine) about his farm at the eponymous Scottish headland. McCartney bought the 183 acre High…
Janis Ian is NOT politically correct and brilliantly defends her ‘Howard Stern’ appearance, 1994
My love of “AM Gold” is well-documented on this blog, and I defend the soft-rock/easy listening genres of the 1970s as an artistic movement of…
Brian Wilson covers Barenaked Ladies’ ‘Brian Wilson’
On their 1992 debut album Gordon, the easygoing and likable Canadian band Barenaked Ladies made the fourth track a catchy little ditty called “Brian Wilson.”…
Kate Bush, fitness guru
Earlier this week Paul Gallagher introduced us to “Kate Bush, comedian” — so why not end the week with “Kate Bush, fitness guru”? All right,…
‘The Ballad of the Skeletons’: Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney & Philip Glass, together
Throughout his long career, Allen Ginsberg was keenly aware of the power of music–and an association with generationally key musicians, like Bob Dylan and The…
When Neil Young met The Monkees and completely tore the roof off the sucker…
Although the story about Stephen Stills auditioning for the Monkees is apparently at least somewhat apocryphal–Stills says that he only wanted to sell the group’s…