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Amy Winehouse - Rehab
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I want to congratulate Elvis Costello who turns 70 today! Does anyone remember the movie "Notting Hill’ from 1999? The title song was performed by Costello. Just some nice memories.
Elvis Costello - ‘She’
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I watched it last week again for i think the 20th time. Beautiful movie and song.
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Cover from Celine Dion’s song “i’m Alive”
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Pink Military - Did You See Her?
Randomly passed by this one today. Pink Military was a new wave/post-punk band from Livepool, from the same crowd as Echo & The Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes. Damn fine indie pop, that holds up pretty well after almost 45 years. I still have this 7" single 
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Happy Birthday to Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, who is turning 78 today. The Bee Gees is one of the most successful band’s in the history of pop music, with a career starting over 60 years ago. The three brothers are probably best known today for their huge disco hits from the latter part of the 1970’s, but they also did some excellent pop music a decade prior to that.
Barry Gibb is the oldest of the Gibb brothers, yet he is the only one still alive. To celebrate his birthday, I’ve picked one of the Bee Gees best known songs from the 60s. To Love Somebody has been covered by Janis Joplin, Eric Burdon & The Animals and Nina Simone, but here is Barry himself singing the song, Happy Birthday!
The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody
While we’re at it, when doing some research for this post, I came upon this. It’s a young version the Bee Gees from 1963, doing a cover of the Bob Dylin song Blowin’ In the Wind. And this is two years before Dylan himself went electric!
The Bee Gees - Blowin’ in the Wind
If anyone’ missing the characteristic falsetto, it came later. Here’s the story behind it.
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Released today,
Suitable clip for VHTV, living in a room with no view outside, but with a view from outside in.
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This is the day to celebrate the memory of a great talent who were lost to the music world way to early. Buddy Holly would have turned 88 today. He wrote and performed several songs that have become staples in the history of rock, and he inspired among many others The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Steve Marriot, Don McLean, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and Elton John.
Sadly Buddy Holly’s life was cut short on February the 3. in 1959, also known as “The day that music died”. It was the day he died in a tragic plane crash, together with Richie Valens (La Bamba), The Big Bopper ( Chantilly Lace) and the pilot Roger Peterson. Buddy was 22, Richie only 17 and the Bopper 28.
Here is That’ll Be the Day, which got to number 1 both in the US and UK in 1957. To Buddy Holly’s memory. What could have been! 
Buddy Holly - That’ll Be the Day
Damn, Buddy Holly was good. So here’s one more, while we’re at it 
Buddy Holly - Rave On
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What could have been! My post above got me thinking of another one in this category, although with a story different from Buddy Holly’s. I’m thinking of Jackson C. Frank (1943-1999), an American singer and songwriter who unfortunately was in the wrong place at the wrong time too many times for his own good. He is almost completely forgotten today, which is a shame, as he was an immensly gifted songwriter.
For once in 1965, Jackson C. Frank was not in the wrong place. It was then his one and only album was recorded in London, produced by a young Paul Simon, who was also staying there at the time. The album is a very good folk album, and I’ll post two songs from it to give you an impression of a huge talent that simply vanished due to tragic circumstances.
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game
Jackson C. Frank - My Name Is Carnival
For anyone still interested, here’s a short bio of Jackson C. Frank’s life.
"“He was damn good.”
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I stayed a little with Jackson C. Frank tonight, and came upon this home recording from the 1990’s. After everything he’s been through, what could have been.
Jackson C. Frank - Tumble in the Wind
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Patsy Cline - She’s Got You
Seems I’m on a “What could have been”-theme this weekend. Today one of the greatest female singers of them all would have turned 92. Sadly Patsy Cline got her career cut short, when she died in a plane crash in 1963. She was 30 years old.
Patsy Cline is still rememberd as one of the greats. But what could have been! Here’s to the memory of Patsy Cline 
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Well, there’s a “What could have been” for the third day in a row. And once more a plane crash to go with it. Strange days indeed.
Today it’s 83 years since Otis Redding was born. After his debut in 1960, his reputation was growing bigger as we were getting to the mid-60’s. Although he had several minor hits, this was mainly due to his powerful live performances. Unfortunately his career was cut short, when he died in a plane crash on December 10. 1967, just three days after putting the finishing touch on his best known song, (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.
When the song was released about a month after the fatal plane crash, it became Otis’ first song to hit number 1 in the US charts. The song also got to number 3 in th UK and to number 4 in both Holland and Belgium. Sadly he did not live to see it. What could have been.
Still, the man is remembered as a legendary singer today. So here’s to the memory of the man sometimes dubbed as “The King of Soul”. To Otis Redding!
Otis Redding - (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding, with Booker T. & The MG’s - Try A Little Tenderness (live in Oslo, 1967)
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Linkin Park is back!
7 years after the tragic suicide of theur frontman Chester Bennington they found a new singer in Emily Armstrong
this is their first single, the album will come out in november
The Emptiness Machine - Linkin Park
and to prove that the lady has a good throat to sing…
Numb - Linkin Park
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Brilliant choice to continue with her.
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The Wailers - Stir It Up
It’s a little bit of music history in here. This is one of the very few times Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer are captured together on video as The Wailers. To top it off, to me this is still one of Marley’s finest songs.
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