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Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
The Misunderstood | Children Of The Sun: The Complete Recordings 1965-66 / 05 April 2021 507 Views
For astronomical potential prematurely curtailed, few fables top California’s awesome Misunderstood who, on the advice of their ex-pat DJ buddy John Ravenscroft, relocated to London to find an audience receptive to their futuristic Yardbirds-derived R&B laced with Glenn Campbell’s other-worldly pedal steel. After December 1966’s still-stunning I Can Take You To The Sun manifested as a psychedelic landmark, singer-songwriter Rick Brown fell victim to the US draft, splintering the band and leaving a recordings trail, including Shapes of Things-mutating posthumous single Children Of The Sun and mind-blowing signature blow-out I Unseen. This inestimably vital set remasters all available recordings from California and London in original mono, its riveting history in the making explained in insightful notes from Ugly Things’ Mike Stax.
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Definitive statement on the John Peel-lauded psychedelic pioneers
by Kieron TylerSunday, 28 February 2021
On 31 December 1966, the
Daily Mail s Virginia Ironside got to grips with a new trend in pop music. Under the heading “The bleeps take over”, Jimmy Hendrix (
sic) The Move and The Pink Floyd were gathered together as purveyors of something The Who had started with “feedback, violence, ripping strings from their guitars.” “New groups,” it was said “are taking it farther and farther out.
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Harvey Kubernik s Docs That Rock, Music That Matters Continues to Make Waves! December 28, 2020 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News During mid-December Harvey Kubernik was the guest for a two-hour interview on the Coast to Coast AM radio show hosted by Ian Punnett heard by 2.5 million listeners on over 500 AM radio stations discussing his 19th book, Docs That Rock, Music That Matters.
BEST CLASSIC BANDS CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA, in its 2020 Review: The Best Music Books of the Year lists Docs That Rock, Music That Matters by Harvey Kubernik, reporting, Here is the real-to-reel backstory behind many of the music DVDs and documentary films you have on your shelves and in rotation in your home library. This book includes dialogues with acclaimed Oscar winners including D. A. Pennebaker, Murray Lerner and Albert Maysles, (And Morgan Neville and Curtis Hanson!)