Tag: Prince (musician)
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RC 334: Windmills of Mercury
A long episode of Radio Clash for reasons explained within, this has taken over a week to finish and started out being an uptempo celebration of Windmills of Your Mind, the Mercury Awards and Eddie Van Halen during the first Kitchen Disco Hour…and became rather more downbeat after I learned that Radio Clash has been…
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OH FFS 2016. RIP George Michael
Bowie, Prince and now George Michael. Really 2016 is the shitty year that keeps on giving. 🙁 Queer icon, and great songwriter, what can I say? Well you’re out of time I’m letting go You’ll be fine (or maybe you won’t) You’re out of time I’m letting go Wham was fun but his solo stuff…
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Prince finally on YouTube
One of the sad things is that when Prince died, a lot of his best work wasn’t on the Internet let alone YouTube as he famously hated the Internet (mostly, apart from his own site and fan club) and tried to get everything pulled. Great to finally see the full First Avenue concert that Purple…
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RIP Prince
It’s been a shit year for music and entertainment deaths – David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Ronnie Corbett, Victoria Wood, now Prince. 6Music is playing this, and it seems so appropriate…originally recorded played live in a 20 minute version, and edited down, (yes he played most of it completely LIVE!) it shows the genius of Prince.…
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Ooh Uptown Funk NPG is gonna get you…
The list of how many songs ripped off by Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk gets higher and higher. Latest is Jungle Love by the Time, I wonder if Prince/NPG/The Time will go all Tom Petty on their arse? I called this one, Mezzoforte – Garden Party which was released in 1982, pedant fans: But others called…