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If You Love Them, Let Them Go (2024) – Johnny Lloyd

Released in October 2024, If You Love Them, Let Them Go is from Johnny Lloyd’s fourth studio album, Punchline (image inset), which came out on 31 January 2025. The record centres on love, heartbreak and the difficult act of moving…

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16/02/26 – 22/02/26 – Willie Colón / Former Prince Andrew

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. It feels strange to place the names of Willie Colón and former Prince Andrew side by side in a single title. Colón is mentioned…

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Took The Children Away (1990) – Archie Roach

I first heard about Archie through my guitar player, Steve Connolly, who’d seen him on a TV show called Blackout and said, “You gotta hear this guy.” We wanted to do something special for our Hamer Hall show in 1990…

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Solid Ground (2024) – Gaby Moreno

So there I was the other day watching a film, and during the ads I did what I often do – a bit of channel hopping. My last stop is usually the film & arts channel. There I landed on…

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It Never Rains (1982) – Dire Straits

It Never Rains is another long rock epic for which Dire Straits became known. It follows a familiar pattern: a slow, spacious opening built around piano and organ chords, then a gradual build toward extended guitar work near the end.…

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After the Gold Rush (1970) – Neil Young

After the Gold Rush is a moving piano ballad and the title track from Young’s third studio album. Not to take anything away from some of Neil Young’s more epic and guitar-driven songs, but I have always found that when…

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Northern Star (1999) – Melanie C

My favourite Spice Girl is back after a short break. Known as Mel C (Sporty Spice) in the Spice Girls, she records as Melanie C as a solo artist. The last song I featured here, Never Be the Same Again,…

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Too Low For Zero (1983) – Elton John

The title track is not only my number one from the record, but one of my all-time favourite Elton songs. Having my own dips and doubts, I relate to it a lot and I like where it takes me. You…

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I Give It All To You (1982) – Kenny Marks

If I could journey back through timeAnd gather all I once called mineI know today that You would findIt all belongs to You I Give It All To You is a contemporary Christian song from the late American Christian singer-songwriter…

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It Don’t Come Easy (1971) – Ringo Starr

In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney recalled Keith Richards saying to him: “Do you know the difference between your band and ours, man? You had four frontmen, and we only had one.” After The Beatles split in…

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