JONI MITCHELL SHAPES HER LEGACY by Norman Warwick The modular degree for English Language and Literature that I took at The University Of Leeds, somewhat belatedly at the age of fifty, enabled me to study Canadian literature and read authors who, according to our tutor, had ´written Canada.´ Being the mature student in the group […]
Black musicians have always composed and performed, played pivotal roles in their own times, and even help shape and shift the course of musical history.
´there is something comforting about the sound of familiar music.
Norman Warwick stops At The Barrier and learns KATE RUSBY ALBUM IS MORE THAN JUST A HAND ME DOWN. Release Date: 14th August 2020 Label: Pure Records Format: CD /DL / vinyl (incoming) Mike Ainscoe is informed and informative and I will be certainly looking for his critiques again. He is a reviewer, I think, who […]
Bolan was hardly ever talked about as a ´composer.´
´our historical legacy has always been to serve as a platform for artists to share social justice messages.
DOLLY MIXTURES AND SONGS by Norman Warwick Despite her own song-writing talents, Dolly Parton has, nevertheless, lent her distinct vocals to plenty of cover recordings of material by her fellow song-smiths. The Tennessee native has recorded and performed dozens of hits by other famous artists in the last 50-plus years, including everyone from The Beatles […]
FIRST AID KIT CONTAINS HEALING MUSIC By Norman Warwick As a teenager, when my love of the country music that was to become Americana was my guilty, and very much secret, pleasure I was too embarrassed to admit to being a country and western fan lest I be damned by the preconceptions of others about […]
VERY EXPENSIVE BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY´S BY Norman Warwick Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, loosely based on Truman Capote‘s 1958 novella of the same name. Starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen to my generation always Ged Clampett of The Beverley Hillbillies), Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney, the film was initially […]
DYNAMITE BLOWS UP THE CHARTS by Norman Warwick, and Sidetracks & Detours global pop music correspondent, Olivia Lee Warwick The members of South Korean boy band BTS (left) could become $54 million richer when their record label goes public. Big Hit Entertainment — the Seoul-based music firm behind the world’s hottest K-pop act — revealed […]
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