Susan Stanford – Five Miles Out

We Are All Just Prisoners Here of Our Own Device

They were yacht rock. Not that anyone called it that at the time, it was named that retrospectively and I only found out when I watched a Katie Puckrik documentary about the soft rock/ country crossover music of that period. The Eagles were the sound of the summer for several years in the mid-1970s. ThatContinue reading “We Are All Just Prisoners Here of Our Own Device”

Born in the UK

Obviously I did not hear this when it came out. I heard it first at university. I was surprised that the Equals were a group of different ethnicities. Even in the 80s that was not common. I was born in 1966 in Newmarket Hospital. In those days the mother stayed in hospital for day afterwards. Continue reading “Born in the UK”

There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis

Kirsty MacColl is now most famous as one half of the vocals on Fairytale of New York. She had a solo career too, at least she did until she died in 2000 in a powerboat accident. The circumstances of her death were murky. The powerboat should not have been in the area and was ownedContinue reading “There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis”

Surprise, Surprise….

My Mum likes The Shadows. My Dad likes the Shadows. We had a Shadows LP when I was a kid. They were originally backed Cliff Richard and were part of the fallow period between the birth of Rock and Roll and the arrival of the Beatles, like the Everly Brothers. The Shadows were safe withContinue reading “Surprise, Surprise….”