Showing posts with label Paul Simon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Simon. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Paul Simon: That's Why God Made the Movies

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I've long had a fondness for one of Paul Simon's more obscure albums, One Trick Pony. This is a track from it.
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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Connie Converse: Roving Woman

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From an article on the BBC website by Thomas Hobbs : Centring on an edgy, city-dwelling female protagonist unapologetically owning her sexua...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

The Joy of Six 1570

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"This is a staggering death rate of 130 per 100,000 care leavers, a figure at least three times higher than the general population. It ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1530

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"The big red 'stop nudes' button is appealing because it’s a lot easier than investing in proper services to protect children a...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Aiye-Keta: Afro Super

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Here's Steve Winwood in 1973 playing what came to be called "world music" more than a decade later. "Aiye-Keta" (whi...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Paul Simon: The Obvious Child

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This is from Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon's 1990 follow up to Graceland. Just as the earlier album had drawn on South African music,...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Paul Simon: One Trick Pony

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  I was in my favourite coffee shop the other day, when I found I half-recognised a song they were playing. Eventually, despite the ambient ...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

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"The study, which examined nearly 300 child-arrangement case files and observed over 100 hearings, found that domestic abuse featured i...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time

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Paul Simon issued his album The Rhythm of the Saints in 1990, four years after Graceland. It uses Latin American and South American music as...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

St Vincent: New York

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St Vincent - the American singer-songwriter Annie Clarke - has featured here before . New York is a track from her fifth studio album, Masse...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Hear Joni Mitchell play a lost Leicester Market Place pub in 1967

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What a find! And what a performance! Here's an hour-long bootleg recording of Joni Mitchell singing at the White Swan in Leicester on 16...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Joy of Six 1198

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Timothy Garton Ash says Poland is learning that restoring democracy is even harder than creating it. "The Tories are in arguably the w...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

When a young David Bowie played a venue opposite the derelict Leicester Belgrave Road station

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One of my favourite Twitter threads is one from The Chisit on gigs at unlikely venues in and around Leicester. It reveals, for instance, th...
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Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Seekers: Cloudy

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As I wrote when paying tribute to Judith Durham , her bandmate from The Seekers, Bruce Woodley, wrote three songs with Paul Simon. (Woodley ...
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Saturday, August 06, 2022

Farewell to Judith Durham

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Judith Durham, the lead singer of The Seekers, has died in Melbourne at the age of 79. The Seekers, were an Australian group who played pop ...
Sunday, November 07, 2021

Julian Lennon: Saltwater

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People were talking about this song on Twitter a couple of weeks ago#, because it has turned uo on a vintage edition of Top of the Pops. I r...
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Sunday, October 03, 2021

Paul Simon: Anji

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Composed and played by Davey Graham, Anji was the track that every acoustic guitarist wanted to master in the Sixties.  Acoustic Guitar exp...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

Simon and Garfunkel: My Little Town

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This single from 1975 is something of an oddity. Simon and Garfunkel had not recorded together for three years and My Little Town was not to...
Sunday, November 08, 2020

Simon and Garfunkel: America

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I've long been a little ashamed that the first album I bought with my own money was Band on the Run by Wings. But I have no such feeling...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

Simon and Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York

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I don't know why, but I have been playing this song all week. The wonderful backing vocals are just Simon and Garfunkel singing and th...
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