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This blog now on Kindle, iPad, etc 4 Feb 2013 | 02:55 pm
The new cover, designed by Douglas Bentley, who curiously turned the Beatles image on its side. The title page I’ve finally done it. This blog was originally intended to be a book – but it was alwa...
The Rodriguez phenomenon 4 Feb 2013 | 01:33 pm
WHEN the Oscar winners are announced at the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on February 24, South Africans will have a very good reason to be interested in the Best Documentary Feature category. B...
Woodstock lives on 9 May 2011 | 08:14 pm
In an attempt to ascertain whether Benjy Mudie and I were right in our recollection about the screening in apartheid South Africa of the classic documentary movie about the 1969 Woodstock festival, I ...
Woodstock, the movie, wasn't banned in South Africa 29 Mar 2011 | 09:15 pm
Benjy Mudie In my previous posting, I wrote about a book which quotes the Woodstock movie’s director, Michael Wadleigh, as saying that the film was either banned outright, or had all black musicians ...
Woodstock, Wadleigh and South Africa 16 Mar 2011 | 07:06 pm
A view of the Woodstock festival in August, 1969. With an estimated half a million people in attendance, it is incredible the infrastructure lasted as well as it did. Notice how the crowd seems to pre...
Three best rock albums ever? 19 Feb 2011 | 12:23 am
This blog has been in a hiatus for some time now, but I have found the need to interrupt its slumbers to bring a quick, possibly controversial, insight, or opinion. I have just treated myself to three...
Hiatus 16 Sep 2010 | 06:57 pm
This is just a short note to let anyone who may be interested know that I have taken a break from working on this blog for the past few months - but I haven't rested on my laurels. The pictures above...
The Bee Gees 11 May 2010 | 11:41 pm
Growing up in the 1960s would have been incomplete without the disarming harmonies of three brothers, two of them fraternal twins, who became known as the Bee Gees. Their hit songs from the latter ha...
Kris Kristofferson 19 Mar 2010 | 10:43 pm
NOT many pop stars can boast an academic background. Most dropped out of their studies specifically to follow a career in music. But one who did manage to complete his degree first is country singer a...
Leonard Cohen 23 Feb 2010 | 11:36 pm
IF ever there was a hauntingly beautiful presence on the folk music scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s it was Leonard Cohen. I’m rather unimpressed with those people who say that Cohen is an ins...
