the Beatles US release of Beatles VI
the debut album from Them, known then as Angry Young Them
and one of the most heralded rabble rouser classics the Yardbirds debut album For Your Love
the debut album by my own fav band of the invasion led by the esteemed Jeff Beck on guitar and Keith Relf on vocals. Eric Clapton gets a lot of credit for being in the band, though he only played lead guitar on three songs and left the band months before the album was released.
nonetheless, the quintessential garage band of the 60s.
as well, a couple of 25th anniversary specials, from this week in 1990, if i have enough time to throw in:
Dio's Lock Up the Wolves, featuring perhaps the best Dio song ever "Wild One"
r.i.p
from the music's over:
to the left, enjoy a track from Heaven's debut album Bent (1982), or Twilight For Mischief as it was known in Australia. a song about all the classics and the best kind of school there is! "Rock School"
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and another one from the music's over:
Nick Marsh is best remembered as the co-founder and lead singer of ’80s goth/alternative rock band, Flesh For Lulu. Formed in London in 1982, the band quickly signed to Polydor who unceremoniously dropped them after lackluster sales of the self-titled debut. After a couple more miss-starts, the band signed with Beggars Banquet who was able to place their new single, “I Go Crazy,” into the popular John Hughes film, Some Kind Of Wonderful; the result, decent rotation on American college radio and their first tour of the United States. The momentum continued with Capitol Records soon releasing Long Live The New Flesh, which included “I Go Crazy,” as well as their second college (and MTV) hit, “Postcards From Paradise.” In 1989, they scored their biggest hit single with “Time And Space,” after which Capitol dropped them for reasons unknown. The band soon split up. During the mid ’90s, Marsh resurfaced fronting a new band called Gigantic, which failed to repeat the success of Flesh For Lulu, so they disbanded a couple of years later. In 2013, Marsh reformed Flesh For Lulu who toured clubs to the cheers of longtime fans. On June 5, 2015, Nick Marsh, 53, died of an aggressive form of throat cancer.
Marsh did get to live long enough to witness Ringo Starr stealing the name Postcards From Paradise for his own new album. tonight, i am gonna play a track off the self-titled Flesh For Lulu album (1984), the second, and last, on polydor. you can hear from this track that it's unreal they were dropped from the label due to commercial failure, i would guess that the label didn't promote them well enough. so enjoy this track "Subterraneans"
and last, but not least, Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers has passed away in California at the age of 88. the singer with a conscience, provided a lot of great protest material. here's a track from a 1963 UAW records compilation of union fight songs, Ronnie Gilbert singing of the wobbly songster (and rabble rouser hall of famer) Joe Hill, who was killed by the state of Utah after being framed for murder in 1914 in Salt Lake City.
and another one from the music's over:
Nick Marsh is best remembered as the co-founder and lead singer of ’80s goth/alternative rock band, Flesh For Lulu. Formed in London in 1982, the band quickly signed to Polydor who unceremoniously dropped them after lackluster sales of the self-titled debut. After a couple more miss-starts, the band signed with Beggars Banquet who was able to place their new single, “I Go Crazy,” into the popular John Hughes film, Some Kind Of Wonderful; the result, decent rotation on American college radio and their first tour of the United States. The momentum continued with Capitol Records soon releasing Long Live The New Flesh, which included “I Go Crazy,” as well as their second college (and MTV) hit, “Postcards From Paradise.” In 1989, they scored their biggest hit single with “Time And Space,” after which Capitol dropped them for reasons unknown. The band soon split up. During the mid ’90s, Marsh resurfaced fronting a new band called Gigantic, which failed to repeat the success of Flesh For Lulu, so they disbanded a couple of years later. In 2013, Marsh reformed Flesh For Lulu who toured clubs to the cheers of longtime fans. On June 5, 2015, Nick Marsh, 53, died of an aggressive form of throat cancer.
Marsh did get to live long enough to witness Ringo Starr stealing the name Postcards From Paradise for his own new album. tonight, i am gonna play a track off the self-titled Flesh For Lulu album (1984), the second, and last, on polydor. you can hear from this track that it's unreal they were dropped from the label due to commercial failure, i would guess that the label didn't promote them well enough. so enjoy this track "Subterraneans"
and last, but not least, Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers has passed away in California at the age of 88. the singer with a conscience, provided a lot of great protest material. here's a track from a 1963 UAW records compilation of union fight songs, Ronnie Gilbert singing of the wobbly songster (and rabble rouser hall of famer) Joe Hill, who was killed by the state of Utah after being framed for murder in 1914 in Salt Lake City.
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