THE VOICE OF ANNE MURRAY
Anne Murray had a great studio-and-radio friendly voice and deserves to be remembered for recordings that became embedded in the culture of more than one generation..
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Entries by Norman Warwick
A PRINCE AMONG MUSICIANS
his commercially-acceptable face of erotica opened the doors for those who would subsequently burst through those doors with more aggresive and foul-mouthed tirades.
HIS NAME IS ON THEIR FLAMING LIPS
On the deepest level, making music for the Flaming Lips requires tapping into an egoless naivety, a complete surrender to the song
SHIRLEY BASSEY KEEPS HER PROMISE
Even now, if a track of this album were to be played on the radio with no introduction you would still recognise that voice as soon as you heard it.
In Praise Of The Poets: James Nash
I feel lucky, but I suppose like most freelance artists I have made a lot of my ‘luck’ happen!
BUSY DOING NOTHING ON LANZAROTE
BUSY DOING NOTHING ON LANZAROTE by Norman Warwick For an island with approximate dimensions of only 70 km from north to south and 25 km from west to east, Lanzarote has over 200 km of coastline, of which 10 km are sand, 16.5 km are beach, and the remainder is rocky. These shorelines surround an […]
ARTS & SCIENCE & EDUCATION FOR ALL CAN SAVE THE WORLD
´yet another educational Cinderella that is conveniently swept under the carpet.´
THINGS WE FORGOT TO SHARE IN OCTOBER
Each of these art forms could survive without the other, but we seem to have found plenty of evidence of collaboration recently.
A BALM FOR THE PHILISTINES, OINTMENT FOR THE MIND by Michael Higgins
the upper room of the brightly lit Baum was thronged, or ´thrung´as one says in the dialect, overheated and loud.
ON THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION
He is a man of mantra and aphorism it seems and he used the phrase “On the way to canvas, to paper, to nature,” many times throughout the afternoon to describe his process.
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