Showing posts with label Steve Winwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Winwood. Show all posts
Saturday, August 08, 2026

A blue plaque for Traffic's Jim Capaldi in Marlow

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Jim Capaldi, singer, Traffic's drummer and Steve Winwood's longtime writing partner, is now remembered by a heritage plaque on his f...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Steve Winwood and Viv Stanshall: Boy in Darkness

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"I suppose I sort of went underground a little," Steve Winwood once told Classic Rock , looking back on the mid Seventies: One of ...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Family: Scene Through the Eye of a Lens

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This one ticks a lot of Liberal England boxes. Family grew out of a band called The Farinas that was formed at Leicester School of Art in 19...
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Why non-fiction books need their indexes

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I'm coming across increasing numbers of new non-fiction books that lack an index. No doubt it's done to save costs, but I wonder if ...
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Spencer Davis Group: Watch Your Step

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The closing track of the Spencer Davis Group's second album, which was imaginatively titled  The Second Album . It was  Bobby Parker , 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...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

String Driven Thing: It's a Game

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Someone posted a track by String Driven Thing on Bluesky the other day and I wondered why I knew the name. And then I remembered this. It...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Dave Mason (1946-2026)

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Dave Mason, one of the founding members of Traffic, has died. Steve Winwood , now the only one of the four still with us, paid this tribute:...
Sunday, February 01, 2026

The Charlatans: The Only One I Know

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"It’s an unusual song construction. I’m still not sure which bit is the chorus. The title and main hook is in the verse, but the intro ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Child prodigies: A column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Here's another of the discursive Sighcology columns I write for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy.  Ches...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?

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This is the first part of a programme broadcast by the BBC in 2009 – YouTube will offer you the other five. There is some great music and lo...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Les Fleurs De Lys: Circles

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This great 1966 single is a Pete Townsend song, originally recorded by The Who and to be found on the B-side of Substitute. And it's pr...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Cars: My Best Friend's Girl

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I heard this on holiday in Shropshire and was reminded what a good single it is. And because I'm without my laptop for a few days, that...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Eddie Harris: I've Tried Everything

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Eddie Harris (1934-96) was a saxophonist, singer and inventor of musical instruments. He pioneered that very Seventies idea, the electronic...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1371

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"In cases of adult rape, it takes the police an average of 344 days to decide whether to press charges (for all other crimes, it is 41 ...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

To celebrate St Pancras Day: The Beatles at Old St Pancras and a 1983 Steve Winwood interview

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Today is St Pancras Day. To celebrate it, here's another showing for this video recreating the Beatles' visit to Old St Pancras chur...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Slade: Coloured Rain

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I never got on with Slade. The worst kids at school loved them, and I could (just) remember the music of the Sixties. Though I followed the ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Eurovision is fabulous but is it scandalous too?

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Fil from Wings of Pegasus has been looking at what exactly it is that we hear in the Eurovision Song Contest final. The rules now allow a pr...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Steve Winwood: Dear Mr Fantasy

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Before he ever saw a Hammond organ, Steve Winwood was a brilliant guitarist and jazz pianist.  Here he is at Eric Clapton's Crossroads G...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

Who Steve Winwood played with as a young teenager

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Embed from Getty Images I've heard stories about Steve Winwood, as a young teenager, had played with the some of the American blues grea...