Radiohead have delivered a Christmas surprise – a new song initially intended for the latest James Bond film.
The band said they had been asked to write the theme for Spectre, the latest instalment in the secret agent series. “It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much,” Radiohead wrote on their website.
“As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it.”
Sounds pretty darn…Bondesque to me…well played lads.
“It’s all true, folks: all you need is love.” -John Lennon, 1969
For David Bowie, space remains the place in the haunting, psychedelic short film for the musician’s new song, “★” (previously titled “Blackstar”), the title track from his upcoming LP.
A 1988 Tom Waits interview with journalist Chris Roberts was recently unearthed.
The interview, conducted in a London studio shortly after the release of Waits’ concert film Big Time, was recently unearthed and expertly animated by Patrick Smith for PBS’ Blank on Blank series, which gives lost interviews from famous faces the cartoon treatment. It is everything you imagined it should be.
Last night, for the first time in 40 years, Rod Stewart reunited with Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones, the other surviving members of the Faces. (Bassist Ronnie Lane died in 1997, and keyboard player Ian McLagan past away last year.)
Miraculously, their hair looked exactly the same although Rod’s blazer looks like he’s stuck in an 80’s video.
The band played the Prostate Cancer UK benefit concert Rock ‘n’ Horsepower.
Hunter S. Thompson and Studs Terkel…what could possibly go wrong?
In the mid-Sixties, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson spent about a year with the world’s most notorious biker gang to write the book Hell’s Angels, which came out in 1967. He spoke with radio broadcaster Studs Terkel that year for an interview that PBS has now animated whimsically for its Blank on Blank series.
I’ve always liked Nina’s version of the song made famous by Billie Holliday.
With the recent horrifying murders in SC., and elsewhere, seems appropriate to watch and listen again to Nina talk about the song.
Jimi Hendrix was at the top of this flight in blues progression and it was in 1968 that he was soaking in the New York jam scene unlike any other artist and on the evening of April 15, 1968, Hendrix took to the stage with B.B. King. Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Al Kooper and many others for one of the world’s greatest blues jams ever captured in a small club setting. To celebrate B.B. King’s passing into the next journey, I welcome you all to enjoy this jam recording from the Generation Club, New York City, April 15, 1968. A Stereo Soundboard Recording.
Hope you’ve been listening to the new Blur album, The Magic Whip. It’s massively exceeded my expectations, so was delighted to stumble over this 30-minute film about the making of it, complete with interviews and personal studio footage shot by the band.
Hurrah for the fisheye lens cameraman.
A real treat for all us. A spine-tingling live Tops of the Pops Xmas special David Bowie and Spiders From Mars performance from 1973, deleted from BBC’s master tapes…. however the cameraman had made his own copy, forgotten about, and found it almost 40 years later.
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