STEELY DAN: WHAT´S IN A NAME?

“Song For My Father” influenced many in popular music over the years, including the opening horn riff for Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” and Earth Wind & Fire’s opening bass notes for the song “Clover.”  

DONNY OSMOND; a change of perception

everybody is interested in my song that was itself inspired by one that Justin Bieber wrote. When I saw the video for his song "Lonely," I thought, Boy, if anyone can relate to that story, it's me, because I've been through the same thing. So I wrote "Life After Loneliness," because in it, I talk about the fact that he's a star, and that light that he has will never dim because he's the real deal. He's made the leap that I've been able to - to get away from the teenybopper thing and have people recognize me as a writer and a musician. He's made some odd decisions in his life, but he's found love and some normalcy to his life. So, that song, "Lonely," inspired "Life After Loneliness" on my album.

primary school PUPILS RESPONDING TO ART

Gordon Cheung paints much more than a broken down world. That he employs his art to imagine beyond the near future  whilst also seeking, through his art, to understand his country´s historical past makes him both compelling and demanding of his audience.
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A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE

Ailey said that one of America’s richest treasures was the African-American cultural heritage—“sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful.”
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PASS IT ON: Sideetracks And Detours Weekly Walkabout Sunday 16th July 2023

There came to the stage a rock band of the likes I have never seen before.  Guitarists, percussion and keyboards and back line choral ensemble. The Line up was of men and women, young and old, and there were two or three solo vocalists and a musical director on stage, too.
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build another shelf? LET´S DO IT

Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers
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REVEREND RICHARD COLES has books to write

“I’ve worked with prisoners who were coming to the end of sentences for terrible crimes. The kind of crimes for which there is no forgiveness, I think, but when you get to know people and you walk alongside people with that kind of history, you don’t have to go far back to see they were victims too before they were aggressors. Once you get that sort of picture of people it’s hard not to feel compassion… We must judge as we would wish to be judged, and that is with compassion.” Crime novels also express a reality—that life is all light and shade,

FROM BARROW- BOY TO THE BALLROOM

"You've heard the expression I could've danced for joy?" Len Goodman once wrote. "Well, I have and still do."

KNOPFLER KRONIKLES (part 10 concluding) One of The Boys In The Bands

British author and humorist Douglas Adams said about Knopfler, in his book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: "Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink."

POET with a capital P, politician with a small p

There remain some grainy, scratchy recordings of Frost reading his work, and there is an element of the tones of voice we would later associate perhaps with such books and filsm as Tales of Lake Woebegone. Nevertheless´I somehow associate Frost with Townes Van Zandt lines that ´we do what we do for the sake of the song. That inversion was there to serve the poem, not to show the poet.