As Ritika vamped on these musical scribbles, I began to hear some beautiful bends in the straight lines of traditional western scales and tunings, that shouldn’t work, should sound awful and frankly should just y’know, clash. But they didn’t.
Read MoreDeliberate Controversy has been the oil in the engine of the transit van of pop for generations, ‘the wheeze’ is still in the tool box of most band managers, albeit these days they just seem to pull them off the shelf as opposed to coming up with original ones, a bit like a lot of their artists repertoire.
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Is there any choice but to be a fan of Chaka Khan? Almost every woman in the business who considers themselves ‘a Diva’ bows when she walks on stage to guest with them. On one such occasion Mary J Blige once shouted ‘she’s my reason, my reason’.
Read MoreIn 2010, the England football team appointed Nivea as the official ‘grooming’ sponsor. Wait, what? Yes, grooming products. The cosmetics industry have done the same trick that Bernaise and his marketing monkeys did to women in the sixties with smoking.
Read MorePossibly the most beautiful song never to make it onto your ‘snoggers’ mix tapes. Thank the record label for that who vindictively did not promote Bills last real album. A great tune and a tale of A and R mans shenanigans and skulduggery await you in here dear reader….
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