Music Monday: Ashes to Ashes
This week we give Music Monday a big kick up the Eighties with this unforgettable song from David Bowie. Released in August, 1980, it reached number one in the UK and made the top...
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Music Monday: Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush was about nine years old when she caught the last ten minutes of a BBC adaptation of Emily Bronté’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS on television. The image of Katherine’s ghost outside the window pleading...
Music Monday: The Logical Song
The first Supertramp song I remember hearing, liking, and knowing who sang it, was probably “Breakfast in America.” Their 1974 hit, “Dreamer,” was somewhere in my musical subconscious, but in 1979 I hadn’t made...
Music Monday: Livin’ Thing
I’ve always enjoyed ELO, and consider Jeff Lynne to be a talented songwriter and producer. He is usually a pretty straight-up writer, and doesn’t tend to go in for a lot of jazzy chords...
Music Monday: New York State of Mind
I’ve flown into New York a few times on my way elsewhere, but so far the only time I’ve actually been to New York as a destination was for a computer conference in 1998....
Music Monday: Northern Lights
My Dad was always an early riser. Even on his days off from work, he’d be up by seven. I don’t think he knew how to lie in–the concept was foreign to him, I’m...
Music Monday: Bolero
The boléro is a type of Spanish dance, but this is Music Monday, not Dance Monday, so I have a specific boléro in mind, perhaps the most famous of them all: Maurice Ravel’s 1928...
Music Monday: Mack the Knife
“Mack the Knife” is one of those songs everyone knows because it’s been around for so long, and anyone who’s anyone has sung a version of it–or so it seems. I always thought it...
Music Monday: We’re All Alone
Have you ever heard a song that sounds vaguely familiar, but you don’t know when you heard it, or who it’s by? And then when it gets to the chorus, or a solo, or...
Music Monday: Is She Really Going Out With Him?
A few weeks ago while discussing the Beatles’ song “Blackbird,” I mentioned my school friend Jon who was learning classical guitar. His parents owned a store in a town just outside of Hereford, where...
