"We recorded my first song, ‘It Was You’, in late 1963 at the home studio of Barry Gray, who wrote music for children’s TV puppet series like Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5. Dick James, The Beatles’ co-publisher at the time, heard ‘It Was You’ and signed me to his company. ...
Hayes wrote the song in late 2017 and and first performed it during a songwriter’s round on Star Vista’s Country Music Cruise in early 2018. “That’s where we got the idea to record it because everybody reacted so strongly to it,” he says. “I wrote that for me. It was just ...
For a man who once wrote the wondrous, engrossing music for The Lord of the Rings, one knows he can do better. Indeed, one knows that courtroom drama can be done better. Watch the recent National Treasure, starring Robbie Coltrane. All-in-all, Denial is a nicely put together legal ...
For a man who once wrote the wondrous, engrossing music for The Lord of the Rings, one knows he can do better. Indeed, one knows that courtroom drama can be done better. Watch the recent National Treasure, starring Robbie Coltrane. All-in-all, Denial is a nicely put together legal ...
She wrote the title short story for WindlingThe Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivorsanthology anthology about child abuse survivors. Grim reading but recommended. It was nominated for an Otherwise Award. It’s one of a not deep number of short stories she’s written, just...
“That is the exact number of days from the last time I wrote something on this blog, ouch.” I always make a joke that what I want for my last day on earth is having seven hundred and twenty three people in form of a choir singing august, my forever-till-I-die song from folklore...
May 6, 2015:Hot Chocolate lead singer Errol Brown died from liver cancer at the age of 71. The crooner topped charts with singles like "You Sexy Thing" and "Every 1's a Winner" in the 1970s and '80s. He also co-wrote the song, "Brother Louie,"a cover of which can be heard in...
Plus Pat shares a weird bummer of a short story he recently wrote, and everyone tangles in the Death Zone to figure out which new series Doctor had the best first five episodes. Whew! Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Podcast: Play in ...
. It’s part history, part romance; part dysfunctional family drama. Maybe that was the hook. I wrote about lines in the closing scenes, spoken by Caesar over the corpses of the doomed lovers. I was certainly enthused about true love, and how they fought the social constraints of the ...
You can read my earlier review of The Living Daylights here. There’s also an old piece I wrote where I talk about how Licence to Kill and Octopussy are my two favourite Bond films (that’s still the case) – there’ll be some overlap between this piece and that. It’s there right...