Legend

Folk Heroine JONI MITCHELL Was A Special Guest At The GRAMMY AWARDS 2024 (And At The Newport Folk Festival In 2022)

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6 February 2024


Clouds LP, 1969

The 66th annual GRAMMY AWARDS 2 days ago in Los Angeles attracted millions
of viewers. Not me, too showy, too glossy, too sugary and too many big egos. As all music websites/blogs covered the festivities, it was hard to escape the features. One moment caught my eyes. 80-year-old folk heroine JONI MITCHELL was obviously a special guest.

She performed BOTH SIDES NOW, the timeless classic from her 1969 Clouds LP.

The quality is poor, but the moment is magnifico.

She performed the song also at the world-famous Newport Folk Festival in 2022.
The quality of the footage here is splendid. Mitchell is just wonderful.

And she’s not done yet.

Joni Mitchell: Instagram – Website

LOU REED’s Previously Unreleased Track ‘OPEN INVITATION’ Was The Most Viewed TUTV Post In 2023

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Last March a book titled The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi came out. It captures the energy of Lou Reed’s worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, with Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, and Scott Richman.

2 January 2024

Along with the news of the book release, came a previously unreleased track called OPEN INVITATION from the sessions of his 1984 album New Sensations, one of his rare upbeat LPs.

TUTV featured this news/song on 18 March 2023 and it got the year’s most views
with 1469. Well, true legends are immortal and still loved by many music fans, in
this case by several genrations.

LOU REED: Instagram – Facebook

Book available via Amazon

Gone But Not Forgotten – MARK LANEGAN Would Have Celebrated His 59th Birthday Today

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25 November 2023

American singer-songwriter MARK LANEGAN was born on 25 November 1964
in Ellensburg, Washington. Happy 59 to the singular artist with one of the most
impressive baritone voices ever in rock.

He was the frontman of grunge band Screaming Trees (1984-2000). He started
a successful solo career and also played/recorded with multiple artists such as
Queens Of The Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, The Gutter Twins with Greg Dulli, Soulsavers
and many more.

In March 2020 Lanegan was infected with Covid-19, went into a coma, he couldn’t
walk for months, and got completely deaf. While recovering he started to write a
memoir called Devil In A Coma. More info about the book here.

On 22 February last year, he passed away. No cause of death was revealed. R.I.P.

Brilliant Screaming Trees track ‘Halo of Ashes’.

MARK LANEGAN: Bio – Discography

It Was 83 Years Ago Today – Happy B. To JOHN LENNON

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9 October 2023

It was 83 years ago today that JOHN LENNON was born
in Liverpool. Along with Macca the brillaint tunesmith of the
Fab Four.

Unfortunately, a psycho killed him on 8 December 1980. Rest in peace.

John Lennon: Bio

Happy 74 To THIN LIZZY Hero PHIL LYNOTT

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20 August 2023

Charismatic frontman Phil Lynott of Irish legendary rock kings THIN LIZZY was actually born in England before moving to Dublin, Ireland with his family, on 20 August 1949. He would have celebrated his 74th birthday today.

To remember him – he passed away on 4 January 1986, only 36, due to pneumonia and heart failure following heroin addiction – here’s one Thin Lizzy‘s big 1972 hits. Whiskey In The Jar was actually an Irish traditional, also covered by The Highwaymen, The Dubliners, and even metal icons Metallica.

Musha ring dum a doo dam a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There’s whiskey in the jar-o

THIN LIZZY: Discography – Facebook

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R.I.P. – Eagle RANDY MEISNER Passed Away At 77

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RANDY MEISNER (born Randall Herman Meisner on 8 March 1946), the co-founder, bassist/vocalist/co-songwriter of country rock icons the EAGLES passed away 3 days
ago, on 26 July following complications with a lung disease. He was 77.

Meisner co-formed the band in 1971, but already left in September 1977 citing
exhaustion. The toll for becoming one of the greatest rock acts in the world, meaning almost 24/7 touring, in a short time was to heavy. He started his solo career a year
later.

He had a magnific voice, but rarely sang on Eagles songs.

Here’s an exception. He did the lead-vocals on one of the group’s
biggest hits Take It To The Limit which he co-wrote (from their 1975
million-seller LP One Of These Nights).

This live version is masterly.

RANDY MEISNER: Story

20 SINEAD O’CONNOR Pearls To Never Forget Her

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27 July 2023

When the sad news broke yesterday that (in)famous Irish singer/songwriter
SINEAD O’CONNOR has died it hit like a hard punch in my face, a real shocker.

An unforgettable moment from 1995.

After going all over the internet to find out what happened, I went to my 20-track
Sinead playlist I already compiled back in 2020 when I made a lot of my-fav-arists/bands lists. Yes, I loved her voice, her songwriting, her presence, her dauntless outspokenness and I related heavily to her life-long struggle with bipolar health problems as I experienced them myself for years. It’s hell, pure hell.

Rest in peace, heroic rebel.


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Trailer from her 2023 documentary NOTHING COMPARES.

SINEAD O’CONNOR: Discography

(Image: cover of her second LP ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’)