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McCartney 80 Solo Playlist

Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3O7SZtK LETTING GO I was going to do this in order, but then I thought it best to start with the McCartney solo track I play most, “Letting Go.” It was the summer of ’75, the summer of “Captain Fantastic” and “One of These Nights.” The year before had been all about “Band […]

I Am A Child

“The Best of Buffalo Springfield: Retrospective”: https://spoti.fi/3baFhYG 1 It comes after “Rock & Roll Woman” on “Retrospective.” Funny, “Rock & Roll Woman” was why I bought the Buffalo Springfield greatest hits compilation, it was the song that sounded most like the Stephen Stills material that generated such success, that was so satisfying on the first […]

Ziggy Stardust Turns Fifty Today

1 It was not a hit in America. One of the thrills of going to London in 1972, besides going to the Chelsea Drugstore and the record stores, like Virgin, before there was a label, was the music press. Three weekly tabloids. A cornucopia of information. Nothing was that up-to-date in the U.S. “Rolling Stone” […]

Mark Farner-This Week’s Podcast

Mr. Grand Funk Railroad. Need I say more? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-farner/id1316200737?i=1000566622187 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/ea0dd616-0347-48af-bc89-a9403febe7d6/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-mark-farner https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/mark-farner-204120667