David Bowie | Sparkle in my life

Please Mr. Postman

Posted on06. Mar, 2010 by Mike.

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God Save The Queen!

A bumper crop of new albums for Febuary including the latest from Sade her first for almost ten years, Hot Chip with “One Life Stand” and Peter Gabriels first album covering other artists songs including David Bowie, Lou Reed and Paul Simon.

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Top 50 Albums of the Decade (2000-2009)

Posted on01. Jan, 2010 by Mike.

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What changes have we seen over the last decade? Probably the biggest change is the way we now buy our music.
Gone are the heady days of vinyl –my preferred music format- the CD now seems old hat as the digital download is fast becoming our musical drug of [...]

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Poetry on Friday…on Saturday!

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Mike.

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The relationship between music and poetry has always been close so I ´d like to share this song/poem by David Bowie,
Just eight lines of gorgeousness which was included on his classic Hunky Dory album from 1971 [...]

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“Oh You Pretty Things” The story of Gender Bender pop stars. Part 1

Posted on12. Nov, 2009 by Mike.

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Who were the first pop stars to challenge the general publics view on what we now call “Gender Benders” by cross dressing in feminine/ masculine clothes?

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The history of music videos

Posted on22. Oct, 2009 by Mike.

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The music Video has been around since the swinging sixties and was initially called the “promo film” and was used to promote bands who could not be in every country when they had a single released. The Beatles were one of the first bands (and best known) to use video for tracks like “Help” and [...]

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Glam Rock part 2 – “Rock ‘N’ Roll suicide”

Posted on15. Oct, 2009 by Mike.

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¨Come Join The Revolution¨- the Sweet
1974 was pure teenage heaven with the Sweet´s “Teenage Rampage”, T Rex’s “Teenage Dream” and Alice Cooper´s ”Teenage Lament 74”.
It also brought me my first taste of Sparks with the glorious single “This town ain´t big enough for the both of us” and the first ever album I bought “Kimono [...]

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Glam Rock part 1– “a walk on the Wild Side”

Posted on14. Oct, 2009 by Mike.

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I feel fortunate to have been a teenager growing up in the early 70´s and Glam Rock was the first music that had a major impact on my life.
There were no videos, no MTV and you had to use your own imagination when listening to songs. You had 12 inches of tremendous art work and [...]