In 1947, the year David Bowie was born, a tubercular George Orwell shuffled over to the bedroom window of his cottage on the storm-lashed Scottish island of Jura and thought about London. He was always thinking about London. The ailing Orwell moustache and cigarette drooped downward, clad most of his days in just the same old raggedy dressing gown as he propped himself up in bed with a typewriter was in a race against time to polish off the manuscript of what would be his ninth and final book,
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian satire about totalitarianism and the cynical manipulation of language set in the British capital in the not-too-distant future.
Al Green performs during the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. CREDIT: Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage.
Al Green‘s cover of ‘Before The Next Teardrop Falls’, made popular by Freddy Fender, has gotten a wide release.
Green first recorded the song with Matt Ross-Spang in 2018, a decade after his last release, the 2008 album ‘Lay It Down’.
“As a lifelong Memphian, I’ve always been a massive fan of Al Green and his Producer Willie Mitchell,” Ross-Spang said at the time. “Together they created some of the most enduring soul music. Sonically speaking, Willie and Al also really invented a distinct sound that separated them from Stax or Motown.”
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Rolling Stone Menu The Black Keys Reflect on a Decade of ‘Brothers’
The band nearly broke up before heading down to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record their sixth album. But it was just the beginning
By John Peets
When
Rolling Stonejoined the Black Keys on the road in 2010, the band was facing a problem. To promote their single “Next Girl,” their label had commissioned a video featuring a dinosaur puppet singing the track surrounded by women in bikinis and the band wasn’t into it. “There’s a fucking dinosaur singing my lyrics!” guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach said after watching the video on their tour bus. “It’s not funny, and I really don’t like it … They’re fucking with our art, man.”