Showing posts with label Doors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doors. Show all posts
Monday, 19 September 2016

Back to the Sixties at the V&A ....

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We will have to trek up to South Kensington shortly to see this new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REV...
Saturday, 26 March 2016

1971: Golden year for music?

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A new tome on the key albums of 1971 should be worth investigating - as long as it is not as heavy as that recent book on 1966 (which I revi...
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Saturday, 25 October 2014

RIP, Jack Bruce

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Veteran rocker Jack Bruce (1943-2-14)   has died of liver disease aged 71. One third of Cream (alongside Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Sunday musings ..... and some bands I like

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" NYMPHOMANIAC has wooden performances and a baffling plot - STRANGER BY THE LAKE is a far sexier proposition" so states The...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

The long run .... the 1970s California music scene

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"All alone at the end of the evening, and the bright lights have turned to blue..", "On a dark desert highway..." - y...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

R.I.P.

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Ray Manzarek (1939-2013) - Co-founder of The Doors, whose keyboard playing shaped the band''s individual style, and who kept the...
Saturday, 5 January 2013

For Garry: Bette and me in 1972 ...

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I had posted before here about seeing Bette Davis at the London National Film Theatre in 1972. Imagine my surprise today when the BBC her...
Saturday, 22 September 2012

Cream & Sunshine of your Love ...

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Looking at a 'Classic Albums' programme on supergroup Cream has made me feel sorry I more or less missed them at the time in thos...
Monday, 23 April 2012

The Doors at the Roundhouse again ...

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I am back on television again this week, as the UK Sky Arts 1 channel is doing a few screenings (on Thur 26) of that 1968 documentary TH...
Monday, 7 November 2011

Happy Birthday Joni !

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Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell - a gentleman doesn't reveal a lady's age but I will just say she is 2 years older than me (mine i...
Thursday, 13 October 2011

Living in the material world

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1965 : Imagine being 19 and loving The Beatles, but not really seeing much footage of them, as one did not have a television then, apart fr...
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Saturday, 17 July 2010

When You're Strange ...

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I wonder if that new documentary on The Doors WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE includes this moment from their 1968 concert in London, as that is m...
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