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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: April 2009
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Sunday, April 12, 2009. I am aware that this group has had a long and illustrious career. And while I have no intention of knocking what they have done over the past three decades, there was a time in the late 1960s when they were the most hip sound around. They were also responsible for something called the Green Manalishi becoming part of our everyday vocabulary, though no-one knew what it was. But what became of Green? Ah, success. Wikipedia says the “two most successful” periods for t...Wikipedia say...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: February 2013
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Monday, February 4, 2013. This blog now on Kindle, iPad, etc. The new cover, designed by Douglas Bentley, who curiously turned the Beatles image on its side. I’ve finally done it. This blog was originally intended to be a book – but it was always going to be too long and unwieldy for any publisher to be interested. So it became a blog instead. But now I have started turning it into a book – albeit an e-book. And Part 1 is now available from Amazon.com. Anyway, here’s hoping there are people around ...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: March 2014
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Monday, March 10, 2014. I’ve been getting back into the music of Don McLean, who was such a key player in my high school years from 1970. I am unable at this stage to go into the sort of depth I have with previous artists, but have discovered that the many gaps in my album/CD collection can, with a bit of dedication, be filled thanks to that miracle called the internet, and more specifically YouTube. It is about the latter I’d like to speak. Sadly, I have been unable to track down that documentary. Howev...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: May 2011
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Monday, May 9, 2011. This is the article I had published. Here are the responses, which show that this event, thanks to Michael Wadleigh's magnificent film and the triple-album soundtrack, had a profound influence on people and continues to strike a chord. It's just a shame he blotted his copybook in Pete Fornatale's book. Posted by Kin Bentley. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). On the southern tip of Africa, in a. On a personal note, having been born in 1956 and with two older brothers, my childhood was steep...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: March 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009. AS teenagers growing up in East London in the Sixties and early Seventies, my brothers and I were, I suspect, among very few youngsters in apartheid. Who actually listened to and enjoyed Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic sounds. But from 1967 till his death from an overdose of sleeping pills in 1970, Hendrix was a sensation in. And today he is consistently voted by music magazines, musicians and fans as the greatest rock guitarist who every lived. Capital, Lourenzo Marques, now. Hendrix ...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: March 2011
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Woodstock, the movie, wasn't banned in South Africa. In my previous posting, I wrote about a book which quotes the Woodstock. Movie’s director, Michael Wadleigh, as saying that the film was either banned outright, or had all black musicians removed from it before its release in apartheid South Africa in the early 1970s. That is what Benjy, in his own right a South African global rock legend, had to say:. 8220;I really can’t comment on his claim that he filmed anti-apartheid...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: July 2009
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Friday, July 17, 2009. WE really only knew of Blind Faith as an album. The theory was that the world’s first mega-group, not just a super-group, a mega-group, would combine the best of Cream and Traffic and team up to form the best damned rock group in the history of the world. Ric Grech, perhaps? While my love of their first and only album is ingrained, I clearly need to brush up the finer details. Group and Traffic, and Grech, at that point only ex-Family. For similar reasons, Winwood had quit The Spen...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: The Rodriguez phenomenon
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Monday, February 4, 2013. WHEN the Oscar winners are announced at the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on February 24, South Africans will have a very good reason to be interested in the Best Documentary Feature category. Because a film which is among the five nominees – Searching for Sugar Man – is, from a South African perspective, one of the most powerful and poignant yet produced. While for me Sixto Rodriguez’s album was just one of a plethora of discs by brilliant anti-establishment artists ...
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Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s: May 2010
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Growing up in the 1960s would have been incomplete without the disarming harmonies of three brothers, two of them fraternal twins, who became known as the Bee Gees. As early as 1960, with Barry, the eldest, just 14, they were already featuring on local television shows, and over the next few years at Queensland coastal resorts. This culminated in a recording deal with Festival Records in 1963, under the name the Bee Gees. They cut several singles a year, while Barry wrote s...So, w...
