Was reading a couple of blog posts on music piracy recently, and the same tired old threads kept coming up. “Music tracks are just advertisements for the artist - they should make their money selling T-shirts and tickets to live shows.”
I’ve contributed this rebuttal, as have others - “what about music that can’t be [...]

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I posted on twitter a bit ago asking for names/titles of female Beatles song characters.  I was driving home last night and started to put together this list and thought it would make a great quiz.  I’ve had a lot of excellent responses so far - too many to twitter about.  Here’s the list so [...]

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Wow - can’t believe I missed this. Just heard a couple tracks and it’s classic Ray. Can’t speak to the whole album cause I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but I’ll be picking it up shortly.  Working Man’s Cafe @ Amazon
If somehow you don’t know who Ray Davies is, please have a [...]

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Cliff Richard has been quoted as saying the Beatles were “out of tune“.  Not sure what’s got up his nose these days or why it’s being reported now, but he particularly singles out the guitar work, and one can assume he’s talking mostly about George Harrison’s playing.  Hunter Davies comes to George’s defense, but it’s [...]

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… at least new to me.  In 1964, when planning a spring/summer tour around the world, Ringo got tonsilitis.  Plans were already made, and surprisingly, their manager decided to go ahead without him.  A replacement drummer, Jimmy Nicol, was brought in and played in Ringo’s place for a handful of shows - I think it [...]

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