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ELVIS COSTELLO, world-class song-writer

Elvis Costello said, "I'm not interested in extracting some dark secret. I'd rather hear about a bright secret, a deep love or a curiosity that might be otherwise obscured by fame. Spectacle With was a wonderful opportunity to talk in complete thoughts about music, movies, art or even vaudeville, then frame it with unique and illustrative performances."
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BEING LOST AS USUAL Jorge Da Rocha,

somehow the sounds he and the instrument made seemed to emerge from the dawn of time before stepping into the complexities, and simplicities, of contemporary music.
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PLAYING FOR BILL EVANS:

PLAYING FOR BILL EVANS: John Horler, Alec Dankworth, Ronnie Jones Jazz pianist still has today´s jazz men enthralled. says Norman Warwick It was in March of last year that we ran a feature on Jazz pianist Bill Evans, and now…

ELVIS, THE COSTELLO KID

I didn’t think I was a performer. I was almost certain that I was a songwriter!
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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.
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XMAS PRESENTS FROM CHRISTMAS PAST

The months between the New Year of 1871 and that of 1872 were lived against the backdrop of the Franco- Prussian War (July 1870 – to the Armistice of the following January of 1871) and the building of Royton’s first limited liability cotton spinning mill also of July 1871.
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ART WORKS on our behalf

I believe that art strengthens our mental immune system, especially in these times.
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Plant & Krauss: A SILENT HARMONY TO RAISE THE ROOF

One thing is certain – after far too long a wait, Plant and Krauss have once more proved themselves a duo of formidable alchemy,... not so much raising the roof as raising raising the bar.
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sidetracks & detours through TRACKLESS WOODS

“You led me into the trackless woods, / My falling stars, my dark endeavor. / You were bitterness, lies, a bill of goods. / You weren’t a consolation–ever.”
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we celebrate our 500th Sidetracks and Detours post with TWO GUN TEX FROM TEXAS

Watch With Mother was the catch all title of five separate programmes, shown as one per day on the BBC for pre-school children throughout the week.