I had no idea it was a Temptations song. I’m not quite sure if I thought the Peter Tosh take with Mick Jagger was an original composition, but that’s the one that rings in my head when I hear these words (when I don’t think of the movie…oops, research tells me the name of that […]

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You can’t make it without a manager. With hindsight you’d think that the Beatles were fully-formed, waiting to be picked up by a label and blasted into the stratosphere. But nothing could be further from the truth. Of course there’s the story, the facts, but even more interesting to me is the identity of these […]

If I see one more inane, insane article about the uptick in CD sales… They’re merch, not carriers of music, as anyone on the inside will tell you. Hell, most kids today don’t even have access to a CD player, never mind a cassette deck or Walkman to play the ancient tape format the press […]