YOUNG (and old) v SPOTIFY: elimination fight.

Rogan’s podcast has repeatedly faced backlash for sharing misinformation concerning the Covid-19 vaccine; other recent statements of concern include an open letter from 270 medical professionals calling on Spotify to de-platform Rogan after having Dr. Robert Malone, who has been criticized for making baseless anti-vaccination claims, as a guest.

KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH OLD SONGS

Record stores are caught up in a time warp. In an earlier day, they aggressively marketed new music, but now they make more money from vinyl reissues and used LPs.´

Two Out Of Three Ain´t Bad, BUT MEAT LOAF WAS 100%

Meat Loaf turned rock records that were really opera into soap operas with the kind of comedy Coronation Street can create out of drama.

WHEN THE TIMPLE ROCKS

German Lopez, timplista, is certainly up there with the best and is already creating work for posterity.

a graceful glide with ORQUESTA de CAMARA de PARIS

What I remembered on the way home was how quickly the music escaped; as quickly as I became used to one particular ´riff´ it was replaced quickly by another that then seemed to disappear ion the same. Then as I smiled at what I was thinking to be a brand new refrain, it became thrillingly familiar for a few bars and drifted off into the ether again.

BARRY CRYER WAS COMEDY GOLD

Baz was just the loveliest guy: funny and generous. Barry (left) had worked with everybody and everybody he worked with liked him. I shall miss his happy company so much, and his regular phone calls – he gave you a gem of a joke with each one.’

AN ISLAND REMEMBERS

My column here at Lanzarote Information and my own daily blog at Sidetracks And Detours are each English Language publications. At Lanzarote Information I aim my writing at new English residents and visitors to Lanzarote by reporting, usually through offering news, interviews, previews and reviews, on the island´s arts offer. Sidetracks And Detours looks at the global arts scene and particularly at singer songwriters but Lanzarote arts events are also included.

FOLLOW FEBRUARY ARTS IN 2022

arts events for the Spring from The UK and The Canary Isdlands
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PANGEA

We also heard these extraordinary compositiions from Cupeiro himself, which were inserted with so much fun and vigour, whilst at the same time somehow stepping unobtrusively in to the itinerary of this wonderful journey back to the beginning of the relationship between Mankind and music.

KEB MO at home with all music

You have that. You have the Black Panthers, you have Malcolm X, you have Martin Luther King and any number of ministers from the Civil Rights Movement and those things. And then later on comes Maya Angelou (left). a poet with such eloquence, who talks about all those things. Her cohorts, people like Oprah Winfrey and people like that who bring it about with a gentle touch. Unapologetically.