Buzzin Music

Before I even opened this book, I fell in love with it!  A sumptuous hardback cover photo of Elvis strumming his acoustic and singing his heart out; with a cut out to top and right with the word ‘Rockabilly’ designed to mimic the King of Rock n Roll’s debut album cover; and one ‘borrowed’ by [...]

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The Ten Rules of Rock And Roll, Collected Music Writings 2005-2011 by Robert Forster
Ex Go-Betweens front man Robert Forster has updated his collected musical writings, The 10 Rules of Rock And Roll, drawn primarily from his column for Australian magazine The Monthly.  He started writing these pieces in 2005 having had no previous journalistic experience, [...]

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Maria McCarthy has been a long term advocate of music where I live in Kent and it turns out that she appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Home Truths, programme, the home of the legend that is John Peel.  Maria told the story of her infatuation with Led Zeppelin when growing up and I’ve decided to [...]

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On the back cover of Rob Jovanovic’s new biography of The Velvet Underground it states this is “The definitive story of the most influential band in rock history”.
Many may disagree wholeheartedly with this bold statement but I would only like to correct it to say ‘The Velvet Underground were as big an influence on music [...]

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In 1994 Oasis released their debut single, Supersonic.  Surprisingly it only reached no.31 in the UK singles chart but it was enough to get them noticed, and with their debut album, Definitely Maybe they burst onto a fairly dull UK music scene and immediately livened things up with their laddish ways, arrogant swagger and outspoken [...]

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