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Mick Farren's Funeral And Memorial Today

The Farren send off-affair (affray?), since his death last August from a stroke whilst doing a lead singing gig with his band The Deviants,at a club in London, could last for days,with hundreds of his friends gathering to rejoice in having known him.

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The Seekers Celebrate 50th Anniversary

“Georgy Girl”, “The Carnival Is Over”, ” There will Never Be Another You”, show me another band with this sort of pedigree, indeed, show me another folk band so effortless great in distilling pop to folk and vice versa and i will show you Peter, Paul And Mary

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Blaze Foley: Forever In Duct Tape

Foley played in small Austin bars, when they weren’t banning him due to drunkenness, and lived in a car. He released a few singles in his life, but album releases were never meant to be – master tapes were continually lost or stolen.

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Missing John Lennon

We as a species were robbed of such a bright and beautiful human force of hope and goodness and creative power, I can’t help but be struck by the ultimate tragedy of a man who gave the rest of us so much.

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R E S T I N P E A C E M E I S T E R B R U B E C K

Just as Bebop and Bird came and never flew the coup, so Dave Brubeck’s take continues to wash down smoothly 50 some odd years afterward; enduring each and every everyman and woman’s jazz cocktail “happy” hour, no worse for the extended play.

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Warren Zevon's Top 10 Songs

Get your head out of the marijuana patch and into the bottomless pit of Jack Daniels and find yourself in an airconditioned motel room, your body a shaking wrecked as you tilt the medicine deep inside and sleep thru days after days and you will playing frisbie with “One Of These Nights” and turning to the Raymond Chandler of rock

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10cc Live… In 1977

Let’s go back to an English summer 35 years(!) ago. It’s 1977 and the band is on its “Deceptive Bends” tour. During the course of three June dates at the Odeon Theatre Hammersmith in London, and two nights at the Apollo Theatre in Manchester,

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Glen Campbell's Final Concert On His Farewell Tour

Really, of all the slow malingering deaths, this one sucks so bad. All you have is memories, how cruelly indifferent can nature be, to rob them from people. Terribly sad, really. Glen, like so many of us, went through the lot on his road to redemption, and Alzheimer doesn’t take it for us, it takes it from him

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Coldplay Tribute to MCA

As Alyson wrote of yesterrday, Coldplay tributed MCA.  The difference here is our opinions of the action.  I didn't know if i should laugh or cry when I saw this. 

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