sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 72 weekly supplement Sunday 20 10 2024
“The idea is to reuse the horses that were in a warehouse, unused, and thus take advantage of the transfer made at the time by the author and which expired in 2026,”
Author Archive for: Norman
Entries by Norman Warwick
A SUITCASE FULL OF DREAMS
Who knows whether the definitive biography of Kris Kristofferson is yet to be written?
tuned in to BOOM
Nanci Grifith wrote and recorded a great song that was not only a tribute to pioneering ´country´ singer writers like Loretta Lyn and Emmylou Harris, but also a celebrfation of the radio.
Lanzarote Tourism ALL DRESSED UP
Our home town of Playa Blanca recently successfully hosted the Lanzarote Tourism Awards ceremony for 2024.
KRISTOFFERSON
Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at age 88 in Maui, Hawaii, had not one but two successful careers: the first as a country-music songwriter and the second as a movie actor.
FUNMI ONONAIYE: OMNIPRESENT
Funmi Ononaiye, the regal, omnipresent music connoisseur, who was an inspiring ray of light in his capacities as A&R director, event producer, artist manager, performing musician, and mentor to many people, died on December 18, 2023, at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.
sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 71 weekly supplement Sunday 13 10 2024
I have fond memories of the Castleton Literary and Scientific Society, and I am still amazed at the broad church of their ethos and of their congregation.
BOOKS BY LARRY YASKIEL
I always made sure I was with artists when they were in the studio on the first day of making a record and was always trying to be with them on the first day of a tour, too, to make sure they had all they needed.
A DANGLING CONVERSATION
It began with Larry telling me he had been watching a music documentary series on Sky Arts about how so many black musicians and writers were paid only a pittance for their catlogues, because of signing contracts that they didn´t realise were offering royalties that were less than one per cent of what recording companies were offering to white musicans.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS & MUTUAL PRAISE
When Liz and Dee realised that Larry and I would be neither deterred or detoured on our musical pilgrimage of a chat, they decided to hitch their wagons to our star, and made their own contributions. Dee talked Motown, in the shape of Diana Ross & The Supremes, while Liz, to my amazement spoke of Canadian artist Robin Thicke and his huge, but controversial hit with Blurred Lines.
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