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Gig review: BAD TOUCH- Patterns, Brighton, 13 April 2024
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Gig review: JUDAS PRIEST/Saxon/Uriah Heep – Wembley Arena, London, 21 March 2024
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Gig review: SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS – Wembley Arena, London, 5 April 2024
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Gig review: JOE BONAMASSA – Royal Albert Hall, London, 4 April 2024
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Gig review: MR. BIG- Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 23 March 2024
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Gig review: NINEBARROW – Harwell Village Hall, 15 March 2024
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Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT Part 2 (Peter Frampton interview)
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Feature: Rock: Rewired – STEVE MARRIOTT (Part 1)
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Feature: DANNY VAUGHN at Fairycroft House, Saffron Walden, May 24 2024
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Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – MAGNUM (December 2023)
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Feature: The GRTR! Grotto of Greatness – SAXON (November 2023)
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Tag Archives: The Sixties
Album review : THE CRYIN’ SHAMES – Please Stay, Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes
Cherry Red [Release date: 12.04.24] The Cryin’ Shames were late to the Merseybeat party, and departed almost as soon as they arrived. This a 2 CD reissue of every recording made by the band in its various guises. 48 tracks … Continue reading
Album review : V/A Let’s Stomp (Merseybeat 1962-1969) 3 CD set
Cherry Red [Release date: 26.05.23] Heavily influenced by US Blues and Rock, Merseybeat was a sixties pop music phenomenon, originating in Liverpool, that swept all before it. First the UK, then Europe, ultimately invading the USA and the ROTW. Across … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, Beatles, Billy J Kramer, Cilla Black, Doc Pomus, Gerry and The Pacemakers, Jackie DeShannon, Joe Meek, Lennon & McCartney, Let's Stomp (Merseybeat 1962-1969), Liverpool, Merseybeat, Mojos, Mort Shuman, pop, review, rock, Shel Talmy, Swinging Blue Jeans, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Searchers, The Sixties, US Blues
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Album review: WHAT A GROOVY DAY – The British Sunshine Pop Sound, 1967-72 (3 CD boxset)
Cherry Red/ Grapefruit [Release date 27.02.23] Sunshine Pop – a worldwide phenomenon, though most popular in the USA and the UK – predated the age of psychedelia only by a matter of months. Legendary but hitless sixties UK band, Tony … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 CD set, boxset, review, Sunshine Pop, The seventies, The Sixties
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Album review: THE FIRST CLASS – Beach Baby – The Complete Recordings (3 CD set)
Cherry Red [release date: 27.01.23] 1974, and the first pop single to be written by Shakespeare, ‘Beach Baby’, breaks into the US and UK charts. John Carter (not that one) was born John Shakespeare. A singer, songwriter and producer who … Continue reading
