I’ve been sick as a dog. You see I was hanging with Roland Orzabal, who told me his son was in an outdoor play in Bristol, and it’d been raining all summer, and his boy had gotten sick, and the illness had spread itself throughout the family, they’d just all been to the doctor. Didn’t […]

I missed “Waterloo Sunset.” What kind of wonderful world do we live in where an iconoclastic, irascible rock star who’s alienated almost all the people surrounding him can be featured in the finale of the world’s greatest sporting event? Long as I gaze on, Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise. I was gonna watch the […]

This is what it’s all about. You see prior to “Workingman’s Dead”, not only had almost no one east of San Francisco heard the band, they thought their music sounded like their moniker. Heavy and dark, somewhere between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, whose eponymous debut would come out shortly thereafter. The previous albums were […]

There’s great music today, there is in every period, but why were the sixties and seventies such a fertile era, why did we get not only the Beatles and the Stones, but the entire British Invasion, the San Francisco Sound and the great acts of FM radio? You’ve got to start in the U.K. Every […]