[ purchase The Quarrymen Live in Penny Lane, featuring Chas Newby on bass and vocal ] You’re a teenage (left-handed) bass player, and a f...

purchase [ White Album ] When it appears at the start of a sentence, don’t is a command - as opposed to its use mid-sentence, where it is mo...

The Beatles : Let It Be [ purchase the basic version ] [ purchase the Super Deluxe version ]  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, as we m...

Buddy Holly : Crying, Waiting, Hoping (Apartment Tapes version) [ purchase ] This may be the hardest theme we’ve tackled here, and I’ll ...

Ain't technology wonderful? Want to do a duet with the deceased? No problem, and there is a rich seam of grave-robbing for profit, the s...

As I read Jordan's last piece , erudite and informative, it got me a'thinking around the other taboo subject in popular song, seemin...

Billy Preston : Outa-Space [ purchase ] When I was 10, in the summer of 1971, my parents sent me to sleep away camp for the first time...

I veer from the standard "post a song with extra" because I just couldn't get into my original idea. It's not that Lou R...

Nanci Griffith : Armstrong [ purchase ] It isn’t a particularly profound or original observation to point out that 1969 was a pivotal ...

Electric Light Orchestra : Fire On High [ purchase ] Regular readers of my work here and elsewhere know that I’m a fan of prog rock, a...

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