Life on the road, with all its perils and temptations, coupled with a tendency among some young people to both “push the envelope” and believe they are indestructible, has meant that we have lost too many musicians at a tragically early age. But it is jazz musicians who have perhaps suf...
I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
These artists not only have the abilty to spit, but they can vocally sing as well. They are a double threat that are dared to be matched. This is The Greatest ...
there's a song inside me i can't it visualize i got my pen and paper trying to bring it out to life two shots of whiskey still i haven't wrote a line always been full of paper that i stop when i saw the time and when i listen to my radio my radio is a jazz beat playing ...
"I bought a cello and played it on ‘Happy Jack’, a nonsense song I wrote about a village idiot from the Isle of Man. This is Paul McCartney’s favourite Who song – tellingly, because it was partly inspired by ‘Eleanor Rigby’, which I thought was a small masterpiece. 'Happy Jack...
Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members. He released a solo R&B album, Back to Then in 2002 on Hidden Beach Recordings but no singles from it charted. Six years later, Rucker signed to Capitol Nashville as a country music singer, releasing the album, Lea...
engineer and A&R. Crucially, Cropper was the guitarist in Stax's house band,Booker T. & The MGs— they of "Green Onions" fame — and backed artists includingOtis Redding,Wilson Pickett,Sam & Dave, andCarla Thomas. Among his manybonafides, Cropper co-wrote ...
Mack also served on the board of the S.C. Coalition for Black Voter Participation, the Progressive Network, Hollings Cancer Center and was a member of the North Charleston branch of the NAACP. In the 80’s Mack wrote columns for the The Chronicle newspaper before transitioning into a radio...
murder in which Roy Radin, one of the film’s financiers, was shot in the head and then blown up with dynamite; testimony from one of the perpetrators later cleared him, but then again, as screenwriter Joe Eszterhas once wrote, “all lies ever told anywhere about Robert Evans are true....
because of the Beatles connections, though if ever their talents needed proving one needs look no further than the song 'Without You' which they wrote for the 'No Dice' album (often cited as their best) and became a massive international hit (and UK #1) for the late Harry Nilsson in ...