Sweet sensation BILLIE EILISH played a couple of shows last weekend in Los Angeles. For each one she invited guests. So she did last night too with Dave Grohl for a gripping, acoustic rendition of Foo Fighters‘s 1997 classic MY HERO (almost 300 million streams on Spotify).
See a snippet
of the duet here…
Band: GANG OF FOUR
Who: English post-punk band from Leeds, UK feat.
the late, highly influential guitarist Andy Gill who
passed away 2 years ago. Only 64.
Active: 1976–1984, 1990–1991, 1993, 1995, 2004–2020
Song: TO HELL WITH POVERTY
Single from 1980
Clip: Performance on the legendary British
music show The Old Grey Whistle Test
in 1980.
GANG OF FOUR: Bio – Discography
4 December 2022
Band: THE DAMNED
Single: NEAT NEAT NEAT
From their 1977 awesome-debut-punk
longplayer Damned Damned Damned
Dave Dave Dave
THE DAMNED: History
25 November 2022
Band: JOY DIVISION (1976-1980)
Song: ATMOSPHERE
Released: 1980
The gripping pîece was originally released on 18 March 1980 by French
label Sordide Sentimental as a 7″ single, only available in France and named
“Licht und Blindheit” (German for Light and Blindness). Only 1578 copies were
pressed.
Frontman/lyricist IAN CURTIS – mentally and psychically suffering from epilepsy
and depression – committed suicide on 18 May 1980. Shortly after Atmosphere
came out as a 12″ single (artwork below) It was #1 on the UK Indie Chart.
Still goosebumps after all these years.
Here’s the iconic, Anton Corbijn directed video.
JOY DIVISION: Bio – Discography
For your eyes only
7 November 2022
Band: EURYTHMICS
Famous English pop-rockers Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart
Active: 1980–1990, 1999–2005, 2014-2019 / 8 albums
Clip/single: SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS)
Year: 1983
Score: #1 in the US, #2 in the UK
Last Saturday the duo were inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame .
Check out their acceptance speech below.
EURYTHMICS: Website – Bio – Discography
Eye-catching video clips from the past
5 November 2022
Band: YELLO
Who: Swiss electro-pop trio with Dieter Meier and
Boris Blank. Founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983.
Active: 1979-present / 14 studio LPs, with
the excellent Point as the most recent one,
released in 2020. Stream it below.
Single/clip: I LOVE YOU
Released: 1983
POINT
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YELLO: Bio – Discography
4 November 2022
Band: BEASTIE BOYS (1978–2012)
Single/clip: INTERGALATIC
Released: 1998
Score: #1 on UK dance charts
and #6 in the USA
About the clip: Late Bestie Boy Adam Yauch (1964-2012) directed it under
the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér. The storyline revolves around a giant
robot causing destruction by fighting a giant octopus-headed creature in a city
while popping, a parody of, or tribute to, Japanese Kaiju films. Various scenes
are filmed in Tokyo, Japan. Throughout the video, the band wear bright uniforms
of Japanese street construction workers.
Go go go!
BEASTIE BOYS: Bio – Discography
Eye-catching video clips form the past
3 November 2022
Band: NEW ORDER
Single: TRUE FAITH
Year: July 1987 – 35 years ago
Score: #4 in the UK, #8 in Australia,
#3 on the US dance charts
Jump, jump, jump.
Top singles from the past
28 September 2022
Band: THE MARCELS
Who: American doo-wop group from Philadelphia that
scored several hits in their short career (1959-1962).
Bass player Allen Johnson was the voice who started the song with the legendary line “Bomp-Baba-Bomp-Ba-Bomp-Ba-Bomp-Bomp-Vedanga-Bang-Bang-Vadinga-Bong-Ding”. He died today in 1995 from cancer, only 55. Rest in peace.
Single: BLUE MOON
It was a love ballad written by Connee Boswell
and by Al Bowllyal already in 1935
Score: No 1 in the US and the UK in 1961
Let’s roll…
THE MARCELS: History
Friday the 13th 2021
Well, it’s another Friday The 13th. A day to celebrate all psychos, freaks,
evil maniacs, lethal politicians, and black cats on this horror-ific planet.
Big fun in hell! Hallelujah!
My favorite scary sledgehammer to play until my brains explode and color
my PC screen with blood is this one by Chicago’s metallic nutcases Ministry…
“Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil…
In my dang a ding a ding a ding dong
A sticky sticky son of a gun
Ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong.”
C’mon, you motherrocker…
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