Category Archives: Music
Born to run
Straight from the Jersey shore, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen has delivered another spectacular Australian tour down under. Sprung from cages out on highway nine, chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin’ out over the line, he was recently in town to let his music do the talking. But not without leaving us with his political message […]
George Michael RIP
Freedom! ’90 I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me. Freedom. ***** LHenderson is a communications specialist.
Pet Sounds doesn’t sound fifty
One of the greatest musical achievements of our time, composed by the genius Brian Wilson. Released in May 1966 by Capitol Records, Brian defined the genre of psychedelic rock. Rolling Stone got it right when they ranked Pet Sounds #2 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, second of course, to […]
That’s All Right, sixty years on
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s recording of ‘That’s All Right’ (Mama). First recorded at Sun Studio, Memphis Tennessee on 5 July 1954, the song was first played on US radio by DJ Dewey Phillips, and the rest is history. To mark the song’s anniversary, actor and musician Sam Palladio hosted ‘That’s […]
Memphis has a heartbeat like no other
“The Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar. I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war. I’m going to…Memphis, Tennessee”. If you ‘love your music’ and wondered about life in the fifties and revolutionary sixties, Memphis will take you there. Understated, the city has a ‘heartbeat’ like no […]