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Look over yonder wall

The incomparable Freddie King in 1970 – Look Over Yonder Wall

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Surfing the sounds of the Killing

The nexus commences with this…

 

A search on the lyrics “Run, run, run but you sure can’t hide” brings up this…

 

Excellent stuff but the next one is it…

And that ladies and gentlemen is the power of the web in three little steps.

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PIL – Deeper Water

I happened to catch the iconic and imitable Mr. John Lydon on Jools Holland’s show and have become transfixed with the beauty that is Deeper Water.

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Shotgun

Buddy and Stacy from 1965 with “Shotgun” and a certain Mr. Jimi Hendrix on guitar in the back up band.

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Restless diesels

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In a white room with black curtains near the station. Blackroof country, no [...]

Kiki 1974

Ginger, 1970s and Yorkshire not normally a good mix – but talent will out….

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A musical nation

So sorry for the Welsh, to loose to the French at the rugby. Their massive consolation is that they clearly have the best national anthem of all the nations in the UK.

Compare and contrast the magnificent “Land of My Fathers” with the plodding “God Save The Queen” for the English or even “Swing low [...]

The Sex Pistols – Atheist thought for the day

When’s there no future, how can there be sin?

I admire the stark bleakness of this line from God Save the Queen. It is an expression of the concept which the faithful routinely trot out; namely, without judgement in the afterlife what is to stop people from behaving “sinfully.”

They are rather missing the point [...]