Five of Turn Up the Volume‘s favorite LOU REED albums.
– NEW YORK – 1989
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– CONEY ISLAND BABY – 1975
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– TRANSFORMER – 1972
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– ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ANIMAL – 1974
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– STREET HASSLE – 1978
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LOU REED: Website – Facebook – Biographies – Infamous 1973 Lester Bangs Interview
12 January 2021
Don’t count shock-rock icon ALICE COOPER out yet. He’ll tell you soon stories
from motor city DETROIT, the town he was born in, almost 73 years ago.
The new Alice LP arrives on 26th February. More info here.
8 January 2021
Racism has to stop! NOW!!!
Looks like longtime running British music magazine UNCUT – we’re ‘the spiritual home
of great rock ‘n’ roll’ – is actually on a… roll. We have two more days to go in 2020 and
the mag just dropped its February 2021 edition. Well, well.
… and a Happy New Year to you too, Neil…
20 December 2020
I’m enjoying my Xmas holidays (with my wonderful wife) at the Belgian coast, in Ostend.
The historic city where the late great soul legend MARVIN GAYE lived for 18 months. He arrived on a liner from England on Valentine’s Day 1981.
Struggling with financial problems, a broken heart, drugs and alcohol he wanted to leave America and work out solutions for his problems. He went to stay with Freddy Cousaert, an Ostend hotelier and occasional manager, who offered to give him a home.
The what’s going on star regained a taste for life, no longer hanging out with the wrong crowd and put himself back together, in semi-anonymity… and he wrote Sexual Healing while being in Ostend.
Check this short, amazing footage from Gaye’s stay in Belgium…
As I had a walk a couple of hours ago I was completely surprised when I saw this advertising board/poster saying Marvin Gaye: Midnight Love Tour. Being curious, of course, I checked Ostend website. There I found what this is about: “During the walking documentary Marvin Gaye “Midnight Love Tour” you will learn everything about his comeback and how the monster hit “Sexual Healing” came about.” Cool, I know what to do tomorrow.
MARVIN GAYE: Website
(pic by Turn Up The Volume!)
