16 October 2025
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Bob Mould was born on October 16th in Malone, New York. Happy 65!
He made 6LPs with Hüsker Dû, 2 with Sugar and 15 solo ones, with
Here We Go Crazy as the most recent one. It was released last March.
HERE WE GO CRAZY
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Happy 53!
Many happy returns, Liam.
19 August 2025
Gillan, 2nd from the right
Singer IAN GILLAN was born in Chiswick, Middlesex, England
on 19 August 1945. Happy 80 to one of the greatest voices
ever in rock history.
He joined hard rock titans DEEP PURPLE in 1969 (they were named Episode Six
at that point) after being in several local bands. He left the band already in 1973,
after 5 LPs, to go solo with his own band and he also was the singer for Black Sabbath
for one year in 1983.
Gillan returned to the group in 1993, and has remained its lead singer ever since.
Many rock fans, certainly the fanatic ones, will remember him always for his jaw-dropping vocal tour de force on their 10-minute classic Child In Time from their notorious 1970 LP ‘Deep Purple In Rock‘. Watch/hear a spectacular live version above.
That classic – reworked instrumentally – is now part of the soundtrack for the fifth
season of American sf-horror series Stranger Things, which starts streaming on Netflix from November 26 onward. Listen to the new version below.
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12 August 2025
The brothers Ron and Russell Mael known to the world as SPARKS
are around since 1966. Yes, that’s 59 years and no sign of retirement.
Music is the dominant element in their DNA. They can’t stop.
They released their 28th (!) album, entitled MAD! last May.
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Today RON, the oldest, the weird one, celebrates his 80th birthday.
He was born on 12 August 1945 in Culver City, California. Congratulations.
THEN
NOW
26 June 2025
Michael Geoffrey Jones was born on 26 June 1955 in Wandsworth, London.
Happy 70 to The Clash guitar/voice/singwriter legend (1976-1983), who
started dance-orientated band BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (1984-1997) a year
after Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon fired him.
– SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO –
He had to go in 1983
– RUSH –
With B.A.D
8 June 2025
NANCY SANDRA SINATRA was born on 8 June 1940 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Happy 85 to the great 60s voice, pin-up girl and daughter of you know who.
Watch out for her boots.
Nancy Sinatra: Story
(Image on top: cover of her ‘Very Best Of’ LP)
28 May 2025
Singer-songwriter-guitarist JOHN FOGERTY
was born in Berkeley (CA) on 28 May 1945.
Happy 80 to the former chief of rock legends CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
(1959–1972 / 7 LPs). The band’s split-up was a nasty one with several legal suits of
CCR vs John Fogerty, lasting for years. Only recently he got the rights back for all
the songs he wrote.
Anyway, Fogerty started a successful solo career
(9 LPs so far) and still a one-man travellin’ band.
CCR
SOLO
JOHN FOGERTY: Bio – Discography – Instagram
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(Image on top: cover of his ’50 Year Trip’ album)
29 April 2025
Country superstar WILLIE NELSON is a singular musical phenomenon.
Last Friday the Texas-born released his, yes, his 77th (!!) solo longplayer,
his 154th overall (including collaborations, soundtracks, and compilations)
with Oh What A Beautiful World. A longplayer featuring 12 vintage country
songs written by fellow celeb Rodney Crowell.
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And today he celebrates his 92th birthday. He was born in Abott, Texas
on 29 April 1933. A perfect occasion to play his countlessly covered 1961
pearl Crazy.
22 April 2025
Singer-songwriter PETER FRAMPTON was born
in Kent, England on 22 April 1950. Happy 75!
He started his musical journey as a 16-year-old with 60s beat band The Herd (1965-69), moved on to Humble Pie (1969-1975, with the late Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott), and had a successful solo career afterward. In between, he worked with other artists such as George Harrison and David Bowie, who he toured with as a guitarist.
He gained worldwide fame with his 1976 double LP Frampton Comes
Alive!. A million seller thanks to its huge hit Show Me The Way.
I’d rather have another listen to Humble Pie‘s blues
steamer Natural Born Bugie with Frampton on vocals.
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
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The 5 fresh ones.
TRACK BY TRACK
Photo by Em Moore
Band: SNOOZER
Who: Alt outfit from Philly formed by brothers Mike and
Tom Kelly from Philly. Last year they launched their 3rd LP
Mid-Earth
Track: I DON’T WANT TO TALK TO YOU
This sonically two-faced roller coaster starts smoothly and funkadelic
until aggressive guitars take over and get in your face. Then the mood
swings process starts all over again. Somebody is grumpy here.
Linktree
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Band: SPORTS TEAM
Who: London-based group,
active since 2016.
Track: MAYBE WHEN WE WERE 30
Single from their forthcoming 3rd LP
Boys These Days, out on 23rd May.
“One morning you look around, and all your friends are getting married, and you think,
maybe all I really want is to grow old, and get a dog, and write horrible things about Brooklyn Beckham on Facebook, and go on cruises, and have petty disputes with my neighbours about whether the council recycles cardboard.”
Gloriously affecting and steadily boogielicious
with musing duet vocals all over it until
sinewy guitars, slowly but surely, augment
the intensity of this witty mixed emotions
tune.
Linktree
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Band: VIVE LA FÊTE
Who: Seasoned Belgian synth
kitsch pop duo with 9 albums
on their résumé.
Track: NOTRE PLANETE
Song about the terrible
state of our planet.
Lively and catchy as ever but with an alerting message.
Skittish synths, riff-crazy guitars and Els Pynoo‘ both seductive
and worried vocals create une ambiance nerveuse. Stop messing
up Mother Earth, people
Instagram – Spotify
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Act: DICE MACHINE
Who: Electronic musician Drew Five, part of
London-based duo Feral Five and his friend,
fashion photographer Michael Daks.
Track: DICE MACHINE
First collaboration which leans heavily into indie rock. The music is also
shaped by a wide range of influences, making them sound both familiar
and refreshingly unpredictable.
Guitar-electrifying dance groove.
juiced with repetitive, pounding
bass/drum beats and edgy vocals.
Infectious, campy and big fun.
Roll the little stones here.
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Drew Five Website
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Band: BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
Who: English indies who keep
on climbing up the indie ladder.
Track: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Piece from their forthcoming 3rd album,
named Forever Howlong. Out 4th April.
Sounds like a cheery chant for a modern-day musical.