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15/02/2025

Singer scores 13th chart-topper with Valentine’s Day edition of her live album Lover (Live from Paris)

15/02/2025

Burn” Deep Purple Album Anniversary of its release
It was released on February 15, 1974.Deep Purple’s first album since last year’s departure of original vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist/composer Roger Glover. On Burn, new lead singer David Coverdale sounds suitably histrionic, like Free’s brilliant Paul Rodgers (rumored to have been Purple’s first replacement choice). But the new material is largely drab and ordinary, without the runaway locomotive power of the group’s best work.

The title track is a notable exception, attractively energetic, with appropriately speedy breaks. And “Sail Away” is a Free-like mesmerizer. “Mistreated” again sounds like that lamentedly extinct group, but is flaccidly lengthy (7:25).

They fill out the LP with the relentlessly mediocre single “Might Just Take Your Life,” the stodgy blues-rocker “What’s Goin’ On Here,” the commonplace Cream-like funk riffs and harmonies of “You Fool No One,” and with a tedious Moog/bolero instrumental retread applying the coup de grace. Much of the LP is skillfully wrought and likable, and the new line-up has potential. But the Gillan/Glover spark that created “Highway Star” and other memorable Purple smokers is regrettably absent.

15/02/2025

Released 51 long years ago on this day in February 1974 ... the landmark single 'Rebel Rebel' as the lead track from the album 'Diamond Dogs' by 'influencer' & icon, David Bowie

15/02/2025

Remembering Mike Bloomfield
July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981
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Michael Bernard Bloomfield was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969. Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he played on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, including the single "Like a Rolling Stone", and performed with Dylan at that year's Newport Folk Festival.
Bloomfield was ranked No. 22 on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2003 and No. 42 by the same magazine in 2011. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 and, as a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

15/02/2025

Released incredibly 49 years ago this week in February 1976 ... the only single from the landmark 5th studio album of the same name - 'Radioactivity' - by West pioneers Kraftwerk

15/02/2025

Also on February 15: On this day in 1969, Instant Replay was released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eqIqvD3xbE

This was The Monkees’ first post-Peter Tork album, and their only long-player to be comprised entirely of songs never heard in their TV series. Though the group’s prolific recording habits had not slowed one iota, their musical director, Brendan Cahill, chose to use recordings dating back to their initial 1966 Kirshner sessions, believing they held wider appeal than then more mature (and idiosyncratic) newer material.

Posted above is an example of the latter; a Nesmith tune purported to feature Harry Nilsson on backing “ahhh”s. Nez performed the tune in his final round of live dates in 2021.

This Boyce-Hart composition possessed a resemblance to a certain Magical Mystery Tour film finale - judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXHIQt7Auk .

15/02/2025

Also on February 15: On this day in 1942, producer Glyn Johns was born.

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This man’s resume encompasses every big name in rock (Beatles, Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Faces, Eric Clapton) as well as many lesser names (Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Georgie Fame) and acts in between (Steve Miller, Humble Pie,). Triumphs include Who’s Next and Slowhand; projects that didn’t quite come off include his work on the Get Back tapes.

Though he labored under the Beatles’ own directive of keeping it honest and reflecting their warts-and-all philosophy, it was a fool’s errand to believe that this approach would result in the commercially-viable product the public demanded.

You can read all about it in his memoir: https://tinyurl.com/2p8fbfsn

Here’s his account of things from the recent Let It Be re-release:
https://tidal.com/magazine/article/beatles-glyn-johns-remembers/1-82116

Someday - hopefully soon - someone will do an in-depth write-up of Glyn’s January 1969 fashion choices (example: https://tinyurl.com/y5fztm29 ). I would happily read it.

15/02/2025

🔴 FEBRUARY 13 1968
Simon & Garfunkel released the single "Scarborough Fair" from the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme.
Scarborough is a small town on the coast of England. The "Scarborough Fair" was a popular gathering in Medieval times, attracting traders and entertainers from all over the country. The fair lasted 45 days and started every August 15th. In the 1600s, mineral waters were found in Scarborough and it became a resort town. Today, Scarborough is a quiet town with a rich history. In Medieval England, this became a popular folk song as Bards would sing it when they traveled from town to town. The author of the song is unknown, and many different versions exist. The traditional version has many more lyrics. Paul Simon learned about this song when he was on tour in England, where he heard a version by a popular folk singer named Martin Carthy. When Carthy heard Simon & Garfunkel's rendition, he accused Simon of stealing his arrangement. Carthy and Simon did not speak until 2000, when Simon asked Carthy to perform this with him at a show in London. Carthy put his differences aside and did the show. Martin Carthy learned the song from a Ewan MacColl songbook, and had recorded it on his first album, according to BBC's Patrick Hamphries. Paul Simon admitted to the July 2011 edition of Mojo magazine: "The version I was playing was definitely what I could remember of Martin's version, but he didn't teach it to me. Really, it was just naivety on my part that we didn't credit it as his arrangement of a traditional tune. I didn't know you had to do that. Then later on, Martin's publisher contacted me and we made a pretty substantial monetary settlement that he was supposed to split with Martin, But unbeknown to me, Martin got nothing." The lyrics are about a man trying to attain his true love. In Medieval times, the herbs mentioned in the song represented virtues that were important to the lyrics. Parsley was comfort, sage was strength, rosemary was love, and thyme was courage.

15/02/2025

Happy 84th Birthday Brian Holland
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Brian Holland (born February 15, 1941) is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound, and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. Holland, along with Lamont Dozier, served as the team's musical arranger and producer. He has written or co-written 145 hits in US and 78 in the UK.

15/02/2025

Also on February 15, 1965: On this day, “Eight Days A Week” was issued as a single in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kle2xHhRHg4

Capitol released but one single from their recent Beatles ‘65 album: “I Feel Fine” / “She’s A Woman.” The package had been culled from the UK-issued Beatles For Sale; the aforementioned single, plus leftover tracks from the UK A Hard Day’s Night. But deejays in the US, armed with copies of the latest British long player, began spinning “Eight Days A Week” - a track Capitol had earmarked for a future release.

This forced their hand before “Baby’s In Black” or any other track could follow up, putting the label in the odd position of issuing a “new” (unreleased in the US) single while the previous album was still at the top of the charts.

So coupling two Beatles For Sale tracks offered stateside fans a foretaste of the upcoming Beatles VI, which would be rush-released in June - after Capitol’s version of Please Please Me/Introducing The Beatles, The Early Beatles, was given its day. The single peaked at #1.

15/02/2025

Este canción, homónima del álbum, fue lanzada en 1971 con un gran éxito y se convirtió en un clásico del soft rock

15/02/2025

Whitney Houston's self-titled album was released 40 years ago today. 💿 With "Saving All My Love For You," "How Will I Know," and "Greatest Love Of All," it became the first debut LP to produce three #1 hits in America.

15/02/2025

In 1977, Billy Joel released his album The Stranger, his first critical and commercial success which spent six weeks at #2 on the charts. Watch the official ...

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15/02/2025

Lady Gaga delivered a performance that was fitting for Saturday Night Live's "Homecoming Concert," and sang the Lonely Island's viral "Dick in a Box."

15/02/2025

UCR breaks down the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 2025 nominees in February 2025.

15/02/2025

The collection now boasts 36 tracks including 16 previously unreleased performances.

15/02/2025

Gary Clark Jr. signe un nouvel album puissant et sincère, riche de collaborations et de compos de haute volée.