It Starts With a Birthstone...

His best known song. Number 1 in The States, Number 2 in the UK in 1961.

First song on the second side of The Madcap Laughs . After which Syd wanders off for the rest of the record which he was prone to do. T...

Old school Faces, Rock and Roll but it's current. A very nice thing to hear on Sunday morning radio.

The NME is shortly going to stop being published for weekly sale after 63 years, to become a free publication. This is sad, but probably ine...

Friends of the stars. Clapton, Duane Allman and George Harrison were in the band at various points. They also toured with Blind Faith a...

  An interesting melange of sound. With plangent, Byrds guitars, sixties harmonies and fey, Suede-esqe vocals. It was destined never to...

Perhaps not the soundest gender sentiments for this so called more enlightened day and age. Never the less, quite wonderful.

Where we're all going. Like it or not. Old school stuff from identical twin sisters born in New York City in 1938. From their 1956 ...

Is it as good as the Marvin version? How do you judge these things? It's pretty great whichever way you look at it.

Fancy a serving of thick funky stew? Here you go! I like the idea of Marie Queenie Lyons. Her name, her look, her voice and delivery, h...

This was Number 1 in the UK fifty years ago. Lennon later said of it: ' When "Help!" came out in '65 , I was actu...

Spotify without a contract often exposes you to the most irritating snippets of music in between the tracks you've actually chosen ...

Remarkably, this began life as a b-side. To Gentry's debut single Mississippi Delta.  This was the one that got the record to Numbe...

Because it sounds great coming out of the radio late on an early August evening.

Peter Sarstedt is now almost exclusively known to the general public for Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?, which kept Space Oddity  off ...

Released 48 years back.

B-side to You Better Move On, which made the American Top Thirty in 1962. Much loved by the Mersey beat bands and covered by The Stones...

Now here's a minor classic. The Youngbloods' third album Elephant Mountain,  released in 1969, and sounding very much like a 19...

Arthur Lee passed nine years back. And it's August.

Cilla Black passed away yesterday. A very English phenomenon, she had a solitary Top 30 hit in America, and really a showbiz one. Lis...

John Mulvey in the NME writing about Blondie's return with Mar ia. He's quite wrong in every way.

Peter Perrett practices his Lou Reed moves before The Only Ones.

Lynn Anderson, best known for this, has just died. I imagine it's being played all over the world today.

It could be any one of umpteen Radiohead songs here. But I liked this. A track from the Amnesiac sessions.

While we're jingle-jangling through the mid-eighties here's a song for the infamous star of London West End farces, most famous...

Reputedly about Edie Sedgewick.One of the finest B-sides of all. All eighty two seconds of it. Remarkably, coming towards its thirtieth...

Former Zombie of course. His first debut album, 1971's One Year had a few golden moments. Here are a couple of them.

For my older brother who was something of a Sweet fan when we first started taking an interest in such things way back in our youth. Th...

So what is it that we look for in drama and music that we can't get from life. A sense of escape of course but also a dramatic inte...

There's a football club called Everton in Chile. There might as well be a psychedelic tropicalia flecked band from Brazil. Late six...

Now here's avant gard. From Red Krayola's astonishing, (though frankly not always listenable), album God Bless the Red Krayola ...

Close behind the use of Three Dog Night at the beginning of the movie, this song is used to soundtrack the first killing. A wonderful c...

Breathy!From the recent film Frank. 

Just heard this. Or at least the recorded version. All I could get on YouTube was this clip from the film about the Manchester Pu...

Can't beat a bit of 5th Dimension. B side to Age of Aquarius.

'And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I ever had.'  I dreamed a...

More Slade than Slade. B Side to Come And Get It.

A Sunday evening watching Dazed & Confused, the second film with a great soundtrack in as many days and as good a film on the last ...

This has that end of the pier or fairground feel that so much of the best Two Tone stuff does. The single sadly sank without trace. A s...

Jim Jones sitting in on 6 Music and playing some Rock and Roll. Like this!

Not the start of a series. Just an excuse to play and post this on a Sunday morning.

I was delighted last night to see the Hollywood film Zodiac,  about the west coast serial killer of the sixties and seventies who took ...

Quite legendary, at least in Italy, comedian, actor and singer. This is one of his most famous hits, from 1972, about how the English...

Something about those New Orleans ingredients.