by NRB | 2 Feb 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Here is a further list of YouTube selections I play fairly often, sometimes when I hear of the deaths of the artists or I am reminded of them for one reason or another: ‘Blueberry Hill’ by Fats Domino. I once had an EP – that is, an extended-play 45-rpm record with...
by NRB | 10 Mar 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In the television program Life on Mars a character from the present has gone back to the past and at a moment of plot crisis shouts in frustration, ‘I need my mobile!’ ‘Your mobile what?’ someone responds. This illustrates the effect time and technology can have on...
by NRB | 15 Jan 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
My familiarity with pop music spans only the 1950s to the 1970s, after which I lost touch. I’m aware that I may be taking this mostly ephemeral material too seriously, but I’ve found it an interesting personal exercise to choose my ten worst pop songs ever and the...
by NRB | 4 Jul 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
For no particular reason I can think of I recently experienced a wish to listen to Buddy Holly. I’d had some singles and a vinyl ‘best of’, but that was a long time ago. I went to the HUM CD and DVD shop in Newtown thinking I’d have to order an album in. As everyone...
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