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Join Facebook to create your own Page or to start Alexa Nikolas - ur. Wednesday, September 16, Bonita Granville. Bonita Granville ur. But did you debate with yourself how this might influence the reaction your music will receive? They might just be afraid to admit it out loud laughs. I hate having my sexual orientation used as a title or a genre.
It pisses me off. I just want to be a regular musician like anyone else. The rest is just details. What is that day job? Do you still have it? I proofread legal documents for a translation company. And yes, I still have it, though I have decreased my hours quite a bit in order to record and go on tour, and so on.
How does a Brannan live show differ from the record? I tried to maintain that feel on the record, while adding some layers and textures. But I think the arrangements are still pretty simple and raw and acoustic. I even put a couple tracks on the album that are just me and guitar.
So I think they have a similar feel, but get there in slightly different ways. Does that make sense? Order the album here. Jay Brannan — Soda Shop. That sounds more grandiose than it really was: my part in the destruction of the racist regime was minute. The fact that the SB was investigating at all me shows just how pervasive the bastards really were. I could muster no greater wit than to reply that they were all born in South Africa.
Captain Domgat was too feeble to rephrase his question. A fearsome interrogator he was not. All the while a strong wind was blowing through the window, making the pages of my Marilyn Monroe calendar flutter. That made me nervous, because behind the calendar hung a picture of Nelson Mandela. That was contraband: it was illegal to own images or writings by banned persons, such as Mandela especially Mandela , and illegal to publish these.
Captain Domgat had instructed me to play all my videos. I remembered that last time I had stopped the video, it was at the scene of the Sharpville massacre. But I got off lightly. People were persecuted for lesser things. All this is to mark the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela, the greatest man alive, on Friday, July I could almost cut it. I have written before about the day Mandela was released link here. Now that he is frail and very old, I dread the day he dies.
Not because I expect that his death will unleash a torrent of civil unrest, but because a world without Mandela will be a world diminished. Rarely have the traits of idealism, principle, pragmatism, intelligence, integrity, honour, courage, charisma, charm and generosity of spirit coalesced in one man to such degrees as it has with Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
The current leadership, and that which it has replaced, is by and large morally tainted. Still, even in this political climate, Mandela remains a hero. Everybody wants a piece of him. Every two-bit celebrity or slimy pol who comes to South Africa wants an audience with him. Charity bling is just obscene. Oh, but Mandela has loads of pop pals. The world would be a poorer without Mandela, but a better place without those ghastly concerts.
Before the first concert in Cape Town, Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics pontificated about how South Africa must address its poverty problem. Of course, being thus put in place by this man of stature and relevance, the government lurched into immediate action. You know, like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. How difficult is it to round up two dozen authentically relevant acts for those gigs if one must have them in first place. Brenda Fassie was the queen of South African pop, which did not prevent her from making political statements such as this excellent song about Mandela, released in when the regime was making its last bitter stand.
I posted the Bright Blue track a year ago: Weeping, from , was the first big hit by a white South African group to blantantly criticise the apartheid regime. Brenda Fassie — Black President. The other files are of historical interest. Two files of Mandela speaking, on recorded during the Rivonia trial which sentenced him to life imprisonment, the other from his first speech as a free man in February on this clip he restates his iconic manifesto from the Rivonia trial.
The other spoken file is the judge, Quartus de Wet, sentencing Mandela and his co-accused including the saintly Walter Sisusulu.
The cover of his first Greatest Hits album tells you everything you already think you know about John Denver. Looking like a feckless country boy a status he thanked God for in song dressed up like a scarecrow, wig and all, he does that boyish, goofy laugh which your granny found so reassuring. Released in , the album cover communicates that this singer is so nice , he lacks the edge of the Carpenters and the raw sexuality of Donny Osmond.
Who said we, the cool people, want our entertainers to be fucking nice? He looks like one here, and a few years later he joined them. He was one of them. He exuded utter sincerity even when conversing with a toy frog. And the critics had always hated him for being so sincere anyway. The country boy muppet was my formative image of John Denver. For decades, I loathed the man and his work without knowing either.
I was just going with the flow. But a sweet song it is. I had no idea about John Denver. I consciously avoided exposure to his music, as if it might contaminate me. I had heard Rocky Mountain High, but never listened to it.
I downloaded it. I listened to it. I liked it. I read up on Denver, learning that Whose Garden is not considered one of his best album. So there had to be better albums? The truth is that John Denver, for all his guileless sincerity, knew how to write a good song and how to interpret those composed by others. Like most Beatles fans, I am wary of other people singing their songs.
Not that it would necessarily be any better than the turgid original. Again, wrong. He was a vocal critic of Nixon and Reagan. He possibly pissed off portions of his country constituency by denouncing the National Rifle Association.
And in , he played a benefit concert at Chernobyl. Denver reportedly sent hand-written letters to fans, which I think is very cool indeed. But at his best, John Denver was an extraordinary musician.
They have an ageless immediacy. The great pantheon of frightful and stupid moustaches is populated by hairy scary guys like these geniuses:.
There always was something slightly ridiculous about John Oates, lipgrowth and comedy perm aside. He was tiny next to Hall, and he had a need to strike axeman poses with his guitar when all we needed him to be was the other Righteous Brother. That seemed to be his destiny: the perennial sidekick. It was a bit unfair on Garfunkel and, especially, Messina who was much more talented than Loggins.
But Oates seemed to belong there; Daryl Hall was generally supposed to be the superior talent. Ah, but was he? They are crap Edit: apparently not all crap; see comments. The poor man was terribly underrated. Below the Live Aid and the studio version. And to make amends, the Live Aid performance of Maneater.
Look out for the Live Aid special next week! It is a comedy classic. More great moustaches. In our five-year interval intros quiz series we reach As usual, there are second intros of 20 songs from that year, for you to guess.
And even then it was not a big hit. The rest, however, were hits in either the US or UK or both. Saturday 21 August Sunday 22 August Monday 23 August Tuesday 24 August Wednesday 25 August Thursday 26 August Friday 27 August Saturday 28 August Sunday 29 August Monday 30 August Tuesday 31 August Wednesday 1 September Thursday 2 September Friday 3 September Saturday 4 September Sunday 5 September Monday 6 September Tuesday 7 September Wednesday 8 September Thursday 9 September Friday 10 September Saturday 11 September Sunday 12 September Monday 13 September Tuesday 14 September Wednesday 15 September Thursday 16 September Friday 17 September Saturday 18 September Sunday 19 September Monday 20 September Tuesday 21 September Wednesday 22 September Thursday 23 September Friday 24 September Saturday 25 September Sunday 26 September Monday 27 September Tuesday 28 September Wednesday 29 September Thursday 30 September Friday 1 October Saturday 2 October Sunday 3 October Monday 4 October Tuesday 5 October Wednesday 6 October Thursday 7 October Friday 8 October Saturday 9 October Sunday 10 October Monday 11 October Tuesday 12 October Wednesday 13 October Thursday 14 October Friday 15 October Saturday 16 October Sunday 17 October Monday 18 October Tuesday 19 October Wednesday 20 October Thursday 21 October Friday 22 October Saturday 23 October Sunday 24 October Monday 25 October Tuesday 26 October Wednesday 27 October Thursday 28 October Friday 29 October Saturday 30 October Sunday 31 October Monday 1 November
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