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Pop Tributes: Johnny Cash Converters, Epsom
EVER on the look out for great pop tributes, her’s the Johnny Cash Converters in Epsom.
Rod Stewart And The Faces Rock The Marquee Club In 1970
ROD Stewart and the rest of The Faces played London’s Marquee Club in December of 1970. Ron Wood, Kenny Jones, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagen never looked better than in this video recorded for German TV “WDR”.
If the camera was any closer, one sniff and you’d be inside one of rock’s greatest noses:
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Posted: 11th, November 2013 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment
Nazi Uniforms: Sid Vicious, Peter Rabbit, Prince Harry And Other People Who Still Wear Them
PAUL Dutton, 48, was ejected from his local branch of Asda in Cambridge, after a fellow shopper complained about his attire – a classic formal black suit of the type produced by Hugo Boss in the 1940s.
Unfortunately this suit happened to closely resemble the uniform of Hitler’s notorious SS, and even more unfortunately the resemblance was entirely uncoincidental. Mr Dutton’s “hobby” is Adolf Hitler, you see, and his fascination is such that his living room boasts a painting of himself being decorated by the Fuhrer – a man who once earned an honest living decorating people’s homes as a housepainter.
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Posted: 11th, November 2013 | In: Books, Flashback, Key Posts, Music, Reviews | Comment
Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer Gets Death Threats For ‘Wiping His Bum’ With A Flamengo Shirt
WITH the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Brazil for a concert, drummer Chad Smith went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Belo Horizonte and earned the wrath of Flamengo fans.Why? Well, during the drum clinic a fan in the crowd handed Smith a Flamengo shirt. Smith duly stuffed it down his bum crack and then tossed it away.
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The Woman From Volantis: Lady Gaga Shows Us Her Flying Dress
TO herald the release of her album ARTPOP. Lady Gaga stood at New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard and showcased the Volantis transport prototype “flying dress.” She said: “Although she is a vehicle, she, is essentially a metaphor for me.”
She is her own biggest fan.
Posted: 11th, November 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Music | Comment
For Sale: Joy Division Lead Singer Ian Curtis’ Kitchen Table
THE £100 reserve price for Ian Curtis’ kitchen gable had yet to be met.
The item is the genuine deal. A certificate of authenticity has been signed by Curtis’ daughter Natalie and Curtis’ widow Debbie . The table was owned by Curtis’ neighbour, whose daughter – the seller – has also vouched for its providence.
Dorothy Smith bought 77 Barton Street, Macclesfield, with everything in it from Debbie.
The seller narrates the table’s history:
In 1996 the table was passed to Dorothy’s Daughter Vicky Morgan when she got married and set up home in Macclesfield. In December 2005 the Morgan’s were redecorating and felt that the table no longer fitted in with their own home. They offered the table back to the family and contacted them via Marco of Joy Division Central.
With the filming of Control taking place in Barton Street and Natalie Curtis arranging the props the table was offered but was declined.
Natalie Curtis, Ian and Debbie’s daughter was then going to take the table for her own flat but in the end decided to have one of her mums instead which belonged to her Grandmother.
At that point it went on Ebay and I travelled to Macclesfield after winning the bid.
So. You can buy the kitchen table where Ian Curtis might have eaten an egg or tapped out a melody to a Joy Division hit or contemplated suicide: 0n May 18 1980, Ian Curtis the singer of Joy Division committed suicide in the kitchen.
The Measurements are:-
- 75 cm Wide
- 98 cm Long
- 76 cm Tall
- Extend Flaps 28 cm each.
I easily got this table into my car, which if you have a 5 door car with seats that go down anyone else with a reasonable size car should do also.
Pop artefacts don’t come any more mundane than this.
Posted: 8th, November 2013 | In: Music, The Consumer | Comment
Imam Says ‘Only Gay Men Play Musical Instruments’ – Lemmy Is A Faker
ELTON John. Liberace. George Michael. All gay. We know this because they can play musical instruments. Lemmy, Mick Jagger and even Cliff Richard are all either gay or else faking it and not playing any instrument or singing. No less an authority that an imam says that only gay men play music.
More on overcompensating Lemmy here.
Posted: 7th, November 2013 | In: Music | Comments (2)
What’s All This About A Brazilian Prostitute Filming Justin Bieber While He Sleeps?
DANCING foetus, Justin Bieber, has been trying his darnedest to be a man in recent years, spitting off balconies, giving fruity hand gestures to paps and generally throwing wobblers all over the place.
Now, he’s found himself in the middle of a very weird scenario with one woman filming him while he slept.
The story went like this: The woman who videotaped a sleeping Bieber was a prostitute. The unidentified woman blows a kiss to a passed out popstar and everyone assumed she was a prostitute that the singer had paid for.
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Posted: 7th, November 2013 | In: Celebrities, Music | Comment
Hurra Torpedo: Norway’s Kitchen Metal Band Play Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart
HURRA Torpedo play music with your kitchen. They are:
Egil Hegerberg – bass guitar, guitar, vocals.
Kristopher Schau – percussion, backing vocals
Aslag Guttormsgaard – percussion, guitar, vocals
(Morphy Richards is away.)
Here’s the Torpedos in 1983 playing Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Central London Record Shop For Sale On eBay
Ageing hipster with £300,000 knocking around your bank account? Well then why don’t you check out this little listing on eBay.
You could own your very own central London record shop, and as the current owners says hang out with interesting people and maybe even meet the odd pop star or two
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Posted: 6th, November 2013 | In: Music, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Shopping In The Lego Vinyl Store
The Vinyl Lego Store:
The use of 2×2 printed tiles as LP jackets is spot-on and the eclectic nature of album art is such that just about any tile would make a good jacket. I also love the speaker up in the corner, as it really anchors the shot. I also like the use of 1×1 tiles as CDs. I have to say I’m impressed. It is not often that a builder completely captures the essence of scene like this.
Spotter: kraftfuttermischwerk
Posted: 5th, November 2013 | In: Music, The Consumer | Comment
Jimmy Somerville Joins Berlin Busker In Rendition Of Bronksi Beat’s Small Town Boy
TO Berlin, where a buskers is playing Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy when Jimmy Somerville and his dog wander past. The song’s original singer does the right thing and joins in. He knows all the words…
Or maybe this busker has magic guitar and whenever he plays a tune the popstar who made it famous appears? In which case, look out for his mash-up of of Michael Jackson and Elvis tracks…
William S. Burroughs Sings Songs Of Poets From The Beatnik Book
WILLIAM S. Burroughs is known for his collaboration with rock musicians in the 1990s. But he had previous.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2013 | In: Books, Flashback, Music | Comments (2)
Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Debbie Harry Faked Lou Reed’s Death (Says My T-Shirt)
WHO was Lou Reed was David Bowie was Debbie Harry? One Etsy has produced this epic T-shirt saluting the life of Reed, Pop and, well, insert your Seventies pop icon in the space below, in this example populated by Rod Stewart:
Posted: 1st, November 2013 | In: Music, The Consumer | Comment
The Amen Break: The History Of The Six-Second Burst Of Brilliance
THE Amen Break Beat. You’ve heard it. It’s been played on pretty much everything. It’s six seconds of music history. You heard it on Public Enemy’s Bring the Noise, N.W.A.’s awesome Straight Outta Compton and lost of sounds from the rave scene.
Writer Nate Harrison will explain its use after this blast of godly goodness from The Winstons, who filled a gap in the tune Amen, Brother, a B-side makeweight to the Grammy-winning 1969 hit Color Him Father. You might not know the song, but listen for drummer G.C. Coleman beating out the Amen Break. And, no, they got no royalties for their short blast of magic:
Why People Moaning About Susan Boyle And Elvis Are Stupid And Wrong
PART-TIME music snobs have been tutting and sighing about the imminent Christmas single featuring both Susan Boyle and Elvis. They think Elvis represents something sanctified and Boyle, something awful. These people, clearly, have little knowledge in either and, in fact, don’t realise how this duet makes a whole load of sense.
When asked about the duet, Susan Boyle was as puzzled as anyone, saying: “To sing with Elvis, I didn’t think it would be possible… isn’t technology brilliant? Dueting with Elvis was beyond my wildest dreams and now that this is able to raise money and help children, it is simply fantastic.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2013 | In: Music | Comments (5)
Naughty Boy Fail: Loughborough University Student Union Make Us Go Ah Ah Ahhhhhhhhh
THE Loughborough University Student Union have a song for you. They’ve changed the lyrics of the Naughty Boy’s La la la. You can get better at media and take part in Black History Month:
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Watch David Bowie’s Cracked Actor: The Queasy Lure Of Fame
IN 1974, David Bowie was at a low ebb. The 1975 BBC film Cracked Actor recorded the singer on his 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour. The then 27-year-old Alan Yentob’s Omnibus film showed Bowie in the raw. In 1987, Bowie would say of the BBC film:
“I was so blocked … so stoned … It’s quite a casualty case, isn’t it. I’m amazed I came out of that period, honest. When I see that now I cannot believe I survived it. I was so close to really throwing myself away physically, completely.”
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Posted: 30th, October 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Ear Worm Music: When You Can’t Get That Song Out Of Your Head
YOU know when you can’t get a song out of your head.
In Touching the Void, the film based on Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’ epically disastrous attempt to ascend Siula Grande (6,344m) in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985, Simpson’s tired mind is assaulted by Boney M’s Brown Girl in the Ring. He thinks “Bloody hell, I’m going to die to Boney M”.
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Correction: Lou Reed’s Collaboration With Metallica And Lulu
WHAT did the Metro newspaper have to say about the death of Lou Reed, who is un-we-e-e-e-eeellllll:
Rocketman: Tom Hardy To Play Obvious Doppelganger, Elton John (Eddie Murphy Busy)
IF you were given the job of finding an actor who looked like Elton John, one of the last people you’d choose was Tom Hardy. You’d inevitably go for Eddie Murphy before him, as at least he could play the entire cast of the film with a variety of masks (and he’s got previous when it comes to making soulful pop).
Yet, here we are, looking at a musical biopic called Rocketman, which will feature the man-mountain who played Charles Bronson and supervillain Bane in the last Batman movie, as the little Candle In The Wind singer.
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Posted: 28th, October 2013 | In: Celebrities, Film, Music | Comment
RIP Lou Reed – A Symphony In Sound
LOU Reed has died. He was 71.
Take it away Lou Reed – with Andy Warhol’s Symphony in Sound and the mighty Velvet Underground:
Photo: Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie share a joke at a party at Cafe Royal thrown by David Bowie. Date: 03/07/1973
Posted: 27th, October 2013 | In: Music | Comments (4)
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore: A Film About Clubbing In The 70s, 80s And 1990s
IN Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, British artist Mark Leckey produced what one critic called “the finest portrayal of British nightlife ever captured”.
Jonathan Jones added that “(Leckey) haunts the secret parts of modern culture, where memory and emotion linger”.
What he did was to capture the feeling of dancing in a night club in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Says Leckey of his 1999 film:
“It took two years to create, but it was made of 30 years of repressed desire.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2013 | In: Flashback, Music, The Consumer | Comment
