(Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night comes from Tom’s second studio album called The Heart of Saturday Night. It was released 10 months after I was born in October 1974 which makes Tom pretty frickin’ old. Not really, he’s…
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(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits
Tagged with: (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday night, Charles Bukowski, Rolling Stones, The Beats, Tom waits
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Inauguration of the Music Library Project
This project is literally all my life in the making, in the sense that I have always felt compelled to safekeep songs (even when I was a little tacker) that made an impact on me. The montage above captures those…
Rocketman- Elton Hercules John!
As I alluded to in a recent post there is a plethora of music homage movies set for release in 2019, Rocketman is one such feature which centers on the musical-life of Elton John. This review does contain spoilers so…
Tagged with: bernie taupin, Elton John, Rocketman, taron egerton, your song
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Music Homage Films Abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
After the big box-office smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios must have been wiping the dust off dozens of musical homage scripts faster than they could sing: ‘We will, we will rock you!’. Yesterday and Blinded By The LightIn similar…
Tagged with: beatles, Blinded By the Light, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Film, IMDB, Martin Scorsese, music, Rocketman, Rolling Thunder Revue, Yesterday
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Imbecile (1979) Tarot Suite – Mike Batt and Friends
No other album was played as often in our house during my youth than Tarot Suite by Mike Batt (with the London Symphony Orchestra)
A Little Known Australian Movie called ‘Candy’ and Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’
Heath Ledger was at the peak of his acting prowess when he sadly departed from this great play we all take part called ‘Life’. He was posthumously awarded the Oscar for best supporting actor in his role as the Joker…
Tagged with: Brokeback Mountain, Candy, Daniel Day Lewis, easydiet.blog, Heath Ledger, Lincoln, The Dark Knight, Tim Buckley
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Music, Reflections
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Come Healing’ and 5 Other Contemporary Spiritual Masterpieces
As far as musical sub-genres go, contemporary-spiritual music doesn’t get its just-deserts! Heck, we might have got into the weeds professing our love for folk-rock and alternative seattle music, but when did you ever hear people spout on about ‘contemporary-spiritual…
Tagged with: archie roach, Blowing in the wind, Bob Dylan, come healing, Djarimirri, Geoffrey Gurrumul, hallelujah, leonard cohen, nick cave, Rufus Wainright, the ship song, there is a garden
Posted in Music, Reflections
Posted in Music, Reflections
Ain’t Got No, I Got Life (1968) – Nina Simone
Ain’t Got No, I got Life is my favourite song from Nina Simone and it also includes my favourite performance of her at the end of this post. I’ve listened to and watched this performance at least 50 times. It…
Tagged with: 20000 days on earth, ain't got No I've got Life, Bob Dylan, nick cave, nina simone
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The Greatest Cover up in History – The Unheralded Robert Zimmerman
Few Hollywood insiders know that Robert Zimmerman’s nuanced acting performance in The Night We Called It a Day landed him a tonne of movie scripts. If you have seen Robert in this short music video; his manner holding the gun…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Cecil B DeMille, Don't Look back, Masked and Anonymous, Nobel Prize in Literature, oscars, Renaldo and Clara, Robert Zimmerman, Sidney Poitier
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Fallen Angels – Bob Dylan
Like its predecessor, the masterpiece Shadows in the Night ( my review here), this album is enticing a whole new audience to the Bob Dylan musical repertoire; the type of audience which lounged their music away and didn’t think twice,…
