Two of my biggest music heroes have returned with new albums in the last couple of weeks and while it might seem unlikely to put these guys side-by-side, there are a few things beyond longevity and massive success that align them. For starters, there are still Bruce Springsteen fans smarting from Lionel Richie taking out the Album of…
Category: Artists: A-C
Bee Gees Offspring Spencer Gibb On Why Whitney Houston’s Detractors Are Sad, Cynical & Plain Wrong
Whitney Houston. The following entry I just found on Facebook and is written by Spencer Gibb*, son of Bee Gee Robin Gibb. He provides an insight and perspective into the life of Whitney Houston, her statistical links to the Bee Gees and why heartless comments regarding drug addiction are based on ignorance. I do not…
Beyonce’s Best Ever Song Never Even Made The Top 10
I’m well aware this song has been out for some time, so as a proviso, I’m stating that fact first so as to prove I’m not behind the eight-ball. Merely, I’ve just been biding my time. That said, who really cares. This song is the best thing Beyonce has ever released, even if it hasn’t…
A New Barry Gibb Song For Christmas, Working Full-time For Newstalk ZB In 2012
One week until Christmas and as is normally the case at this time of year, you look back and go “wow, that year went quick,” which is such a cliche, but most likely because it’s true. A year ago I was the sound engineer / DJ / unofficial tennis guy at Club Med in the…
Robin Gibb Suffering From Liver Cancer – Forgotten Bee Gees Classic ‘Walking Back To Waterloo’
You know you really are a passionate fan when yesterday’s awful news of 61 year old Robin Gibb’s liver cancer manifests itself in a dream where he visits the family home. As is usually the case with dreams, things make perfect sense and absolutely none in almost equal measure. In typical unnecessary dream randomness, Robin…
Barry Gibb’s 65th Birthday – The Finest Bee Gees Song Of Them All
UPDATE JUNE 2012: Barry’s brother Robin lost his battle with cancer a couple of weeks ago. Click here to read my tribute, focusing on the fight for the Bee Gees’ legacy and the challenges these remarkable songwriters overcame. Today is Barry Gibb’s 65th birthday so as I am wont to do, it’s time to wind…
Legendary Motown Songwriter Nickolas Ashford Dies – His Greatest Ever Song
Nickolas Ashford, of the famed soul songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, died yesterday in New York from throat cancer, aged 70. His death will not attract the column inches of someone like Amy Winehouse, though he departs this world as one of the greatest soul hitmakers of the 20th century. And thanks to Winehouse, he and…
Amy Winehouse Dead At 27 – Is The 27 Club Real?
Amy Winehouse. This morning the news arrived that so many music fans had feared for years. Amy Winehouse is dead, found by paramedics in her North London home a few hours ago. It is uncomfirmed what killed her and though she had been suffering emphysema, her rampant drug and alcohol addicitions must have ultimately played a…
Did TLC Rip-off Paul McCartney?
Amidst all the excitement that the latest addition to the Beckham clan has the middle name Seven (Harper Seven Beckham), another equally historic piece of entertainment news has semi-slipped through the cracks. Rumour has it Paul McCartney will play a part in the 2012 London Olympics, be it the opening or closing ceremony, and will most…
Bruce Springsteen’s Spectacular Eulogy To Clarence Clemons
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the death of Clarence Clemons, the famous sax player who stood alongside Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band for 40 years. I analysed the friendship of Clarence and Bruce, one that Clarence had described as “the most passion without sex,” which is really as poignant as it is…
Barry Gibb & Michael Jackson – The Completed, Full Length Duet ‘All In Your Name’.
The Bee Gees with Michael Jackson in the mid 80s. Well, it is finally here in its entirety. All In Your Name, a nearly 10 year old duet between Barry Gibb and Michael Jackson is now complete and presented to the world on the second anniversary of Michael’s death. Barry had fed fans a couple…
“The Most Passion Without Sex” – Bruce Springsteen Explains His Friendship With Clarence Clemons
The Big Man, Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band died over the weekend due to complications from a recent stroke – he was 69. He is the biggest of my musical heroes to pass away since Michael Jackson nearly two years ago and right now as I type, the iPod is set to…
