Musical

Osaka Show 1970 was a hour-long musical produced by Valerio Lazarov for TVE (the national television station in Spain). It featured its countries biggest pop…

One of the first major country “crossover” artists, Bobbie Gentry became an overnight sensation with her massive 1967 hit single, the hauntingly enigmatic “Ode to…

Like science fiction becoming reality, or worse, satire becoming reality, this 1968 off-Broadway musical–or to quote the subtitle, this “dirty politics musical”–immediately opens eyes very…

The opening music to Kate Bush’s career is in the key of C. One day, sometime in 1970, Kate’s father–a doctor by profession–showed his daughter…

Hey America! Here’s a wild Donald Trump-inspired playlist that all the hip kids are tuning into! I did an expanded version of this on my…

Hollywood and Bollywood play by rather different rules and nowhere is this more apparent than in the contrasts between American action films and the ones…

Right this moment, I really wish I spoke Russian, the better to understand this 1964 commercial that turned up yesterday on the wonderful Soviet Visuals…

Slumber Party Massacre II, written and directed by Deborah Brock, is a horror comedy musical cult film that you need to see. Pay no attention…

When seeds of malice and deceit are planted, only the worst kind of garden, watered by blood and tears, will bloom. The Ancient Greeks knew…

Although back home in New Zealand–and Australia–Split Enz are YUGE, and agreed upon by all as THE seminal Kiwi pop act, everywhere else they’d be…