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.
.
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.
28 January 2025
Singer-songwriter ROBERT WYATT (real name Robert Wyatt-Ellidge) was born
on 28 January 1945. Happy 80 to the man who formed Soft Machine (1966)
and Matching Mole (1971). He became paraplegic following an accidental fall
from a window in 1973.
He started a long and much-acclaimed solo career which ended in 2014 when
he retired with this message: “Here is a pride in stopping, I don’t want the music
to go off.”
To celebrate his birthday, here’s compelling pearl
Shipbuilding. A song about the Falklands War.
Clive Langer composed the music and Elvis Costello
wrote the lyrics as Wyatt wasn’t happy about his own
words. Released as a single in 1982, re-released a year
later.
Singular voice.
ROBERT WYATT: Biography – All Solo Albums
(photo on top: from the cover of his
‘Different Every Time’ album)
26 January 2025
Guitar virtuoso EDDIE VAN HALEN was born named Edward Lodewijk Van Halen
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 26 January 1955. He would have celebrated his
70th birthday today.
As co-founder of rock giants Van Halen he made/released
12 studio LPs between 1978 and 2012 with the glam band.
Their 1996 single JUMP was an astronomical hit,
as we know. Almost 1 billion streams on Spotify.
“I get up and nothin’ gets me down
You got it tough, I’ve seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel
You got to roll with the punches to get to what’s real”
Van Halen passed away, 5 years ago, in
October 2020 following a stroke. R.I.P.
12 January 2025
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ZACH DE LA ROCHA, frontman/loudmouth of Californian crossover
rebels Rage Against The Machine was born Zacharias Manuel de la
Rocha on 12th January 1970 in Long Beach, California. Happy 55!
With RAGTM he released (only) 4 LPs in a pretty along career with a couple
of hiatuses (1991–2000, 2007–2011, 2019–present). They cashed in regularly
on massive reunion tours/events.
ZACK: “I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I’ve written,
it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people
who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human
condition.”
ALL TOGETHER NOW
Facebook – Instagram – Linktree
10 January 2025
Sir Roderick David Stewart, worldwide better known as Rod Stewart was
born in Highgate, Londen on 10 January 1945. Happy 80 to a legendary rocker
who became a much-loved crooner later in his career (and still today), to an
eclectic singer/songwriter, to a tireless playboy, to a football freak and most
of all to a brilliant vocalist with a unique, hoarse voice.
He caught attention for the first time as frontman of the Jeff Beck Group
and then with then Faces. But he became a global superstar as a solo artist
with several excellent albums and a series of massive hit singles.
No retirement yet for Rod The Mod.
Rod: “I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re
at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the
time, up and down, like a pair of trousers”.
Stay with us, Rod.
Instagram – Linktree – All Solo Albums
(Image on top: Cover of ‘The Definite Rod Stewart‘ collection)