Continuing the countdown to this weekend’s New Zealand concerts, today’s Hall & Oates song is unabashed bombastic pop. In later years the duo said the production on their similarly bombastically-titled 1984 album Big Bam Boom was a little over the top, but the LP’s lead single Out Of Touch is all the more fun for it….
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Hall & Oates Song Of The Day – The Original ‘Everytime You Go Away’
Today’s Hall & Oates song – Everytime You Go Away – is one of seven US number one hits they wrote, though the only one of those seven they didn’t perform. Originally an album track from their breakthrough commercial smash Voices in 1980, Paul Young covered the song in 1985, taking it all the way to…
The Hall & Oates Song That Paid My Rent When I Was Broke
Today’s Hall & Oates song is special to me because once upon a time I ended up making a bit of money from it. A friend of mine always told me that to really make it as a broadcaster (and probably as a man as well) I would have to risk everything I had, go…
Check Out Daryl Hall’s Hilari-Awesome Sunglasses On TOTP In 1977! Hall & Oates Song Of The Day, Day 2 – Countdown To Their NZ Concert
For day two in my Hall & Oates countdown before their Auckland concert on Sunday night, I’ve decided to go for the song Brandon Flowers from the Killers once described as “everything you need to know in writing a hit song.” Rich Girl is perfect pop: two and a half minutes of punchy, hooktastic ear-candy which…
Counting Down To Hall & Oates’ NZ Concert – When Daryl Hall & Pat Monahan Made ‘Wait For Me’ Even Better Than The Original
Summer has finally poked through in Auckland after threatening to do so since as far back as September. Just in time, because this coming weekend the duo who have had more hit songs and albums than any other in music history are playing A Day On The Green. Hall & Oates are in New Zealand…
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…
Paul Simon’s 70th Birthday – His 10 Greatest Songs
I’ve been listening to Paul Simon pretty much from day one, so being that he turned 70, I thought I’d compile a list of my 10 favourite songs from one of America’s greatest songwriters and in particular, lyricists. As a kid I remember the family driving around Kuala Lumpur in our big yellow Datsun van listening…
The Greatest Bagpipe Songs Of All Time – Who Knew Glen Campbell Could Play The Bagpipes?
Glen Campbell. With the killjoy minor tragedy of no bagpipes allowed into Rugby World Cup games, we had a rip-roaring discussion on Newstalk ZB that spanned not one, but two mornings, on the finest bagpipe songs of all time. This was much to the screwed-up face scorn of Mike Hosking’s producer Glenn who is “suspicious of…
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…
Hall & Oates Announce New Zealand Tour – Why They Were So Underrated
Daryl Hall & John Oates. I was a music geek, even as a kid and can still remember going to the public library in downtown Kuala Lumpur as a 7 year old, taking out the book 20 Names In Pop Music and learning about all the acts who would soon become my heroes. As a…
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…
