Roger Hodgson celebrates his 62nd birthday today. Founder member of Supertramp, one of the best “progressive” rock bands to come out of the UK, he was born in Portsmouth in 1950.
Hodgson composed and sang on most of their hits including Dreamer, The Logical Song and Breakfast in America.
Happy Birthday Roger
Long time drummer for American rock band, the Doobie Brothers, Michael Hossack has died.
Doobie Brothers Drummer Michael Hossack Has Died.
Hossack performed with the band from the early 70’s right up until recently. He was an important contributor on all their major releases including probably their most famous hits “Listen To The Music” , “Black Music” and of course “Long Train Running”.
As a tribute, why not take a listen to the live versions below.
Come on folks. Lets find this gear and return it to Paddy. I am posting the following, unchanged…..
PLEASE REPOST THE FOLLOWING STATUS – LETS SEE IT ALL ROUND FACEBOOK – 🙂 xxxx
URGENT!!! last night Paddy Maguire had his car broken in to and they have taken his black strat guitar, his Germino amp head and his pedal board! the pedals he had are an oxfuzz 2, a jim dulop custom wah wah, dunlop rota vibe, hep cat, line 6 DL4, all in a powered flight case. The Germino is an LD55 Lead and has the serial number rockgrinder 1. the guitar is a 1984 black strat with cigarette burns on the head stock and a paddycaster name plate on the scratch plate. PLEASE KEEP YOUR EYES OUT FOR THESE. They were taken from our house in Halifax but they could be trying to get rid of the gear anywhere. obviously paddy is devastated and we would appreciate for anyone to let us know if they hear anything. We are offering a reward to get our stuff back safely so please pass the message around and lets get the little scroats that decided it was ok to do this thing! thanks guys
I have no doubt that he is a good singer, I’ll even go as to admit he’s a great singer but is this really the best that “GREAT BRITAIN” can do ?
It is possible that Engelbert could pull it off, after all he certainly couldn’t do any worse than some of our previous candidates and it is a lottery.
Apparently Humperdinck will perform an, as yet, unannounced song. As if it will make any difference, the BBC said the song would be recorded in London, Los Angeles and Nashville. What the hell difference does it make where it is recorded. It’s the performance on the night that’s going to count as well as the quality of the songwriting.
It will be written by Grammy award-winning producer Martin Terefe and Ivor Novello winner Sacha Skarbek, who co-wrote James Blunt hit You’re Beautiful.
Here we go again with the “they’ve written a hit so they must be able to write another one”
Even with all the political voting it’s still a lottery.
And then of course we mustn’t forget that we are universally hated by the rest of europe.
Engelbert, you have my vote even though I don’t think you have a snowballs hope in hell of winning. You’d get my vote for having the guts to do this at the age of 75.
Engelbert Humperdinck to represent UK at Eurovision Song Contest 2012 | News | NME.COM.
Davy Jones, lead singer with The Monkees, has passed away in his sleep. He died of a heart attack aged 66.
Jones, with the Monkees, was an integral part of our lives throughout the sixties. Many will also remember him appearing in Coronation Street.
Although not high on my list of favourite bands I will admit to enjoying many of their songs. Davy and the band have a place in my memories.
The music lives on…..we were and still are believers.
I’m thinking that this track / song is likely to become the theme tune for the planners in the Waterlooville area.
I know that the song is based around Saltdean and the South Downs, home to the Copper Family, who are based in Rottingdean and Peacehaven also in Sussex. The track features reminiscences of their family.
However, the sentiment is fitting for almost anywhere in the UK these days as the planners clamber over themselves to fill in all the open green areas with ‘Ouses, ‘Ouses, ‘Ouses
Take a listen ….’Ouses, ‘Ouses, ‘Ouses – John Copper & Sheila Chandra
It makes me “prostrate with dismal” too.
Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston has sadly passed away aged 64.
Only with the band for a short two year stint, Weston replaced Danny Kirwan in 1972. He contributed slide guitar, harmonica and banjo, supporting vocals as well as writing at least one track for the albums Penguin and Mystery To Me
Fans of Etta James have known for many years that her health was deteriorating. Her doctor has announced that she is now terminally ill.
It seems that the music world is soon to lose another icon.
At aged 80 it can be said that  Hubert Sumlin has had a good innings. The world of electric blues will miss him.
As a Chicago electric bluesman he has been the one of the creative inspirations for so many musicians including Eric Clapton and Keith Richard. He is best known for being a member of Holing Wolfs band for many years although he also played for Muddy Waters for a while.
Since posting this I have just discovered that Mick Jagger and Keith Richard have “insisted” on covering the costs of Sumlins funeral.
The Stones stars issued statements following Sumlin’s death:
“Warm, humourous and always encouraging, he was a gentleman of the first order,” wrote Richards. “Miss him, yes, but we have his records. All my condolences to his family. One love, Hubert.”
“Hubert was an incisive yet delicate blues player,” Jagger wrote. “He had a really distinctive and original tone and was a wonderful foil for Howlin’ Wolf’s growling vocal style … He was an inspiration to us all.”
Every now and again the BBC really rocks.
Yesterday morning while I was working I happened to have BBC Radio 2 playing in the background instead of my usual Radio Paradise. Note, I said” in the back ground”. That was until my ears perked up.
Ken Bruce was playing Argent’s “Hold Your Head Up”. But not just the usual version. Oh no, Ken was playing the album version, complete with extended instrumental break in the middle.
Needless to say I wound the volume up to 11.
So imagine my surprise as I am driving home this morning, having just dropped my wife off at work. Chris Evans was bemoaning the fact that he had suffered a huge dose of show envy.
What was that envy ?
Well, of course, it was the fact that Ken Bruce had played the album version of Hold Your Head Up. So to get over this Mr. Evans decided to play the same track.
So there I was, stuck in my car, parked on my drive, with the volume on my radio turned way up.
Two days on the trot good ol’ Aunty Beeb had hit the gold spot.
What do you think the chances are that they can make it a “hat trick” ?
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