by Paul Merry | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized |
A short film featuring the first ever record mentioning rock & roll (from the 1920s), Ike Turner as Jackie Brenston, Muddy Waters and Jimmy Preston Jackie Brenston was Ike’s sax player. Check out the band above As you know, Ike Turner’s Rocket 88 in 1951 is...
by Paul Merry | Jan 26, 2016 | Uncategorized |
David Bowie died as he lived – with great style. Secretly cremated, with no fanfare, fuss, funeral service or even family present, Bowie’s parting gift to the world was the suitably named album, ‘Blackstar’, the name of a hidden planet, cancer lesion, and a song about...
by Paul Merry | Jan 25, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Dive straight into the new 12-minute film below. Hit on Freddie King. Four Kings Albert King, B. B. King, Freddie King and who else? Hear some fantastic electric blues guitar and meet the fourth and original King of the blues guitar. They’re all on a podcast I did a...
by Paul Merry | Jan 13, 2016 | Uncategorized |
This Inner Sleeve album-sleeve, written around 1972, recently turned up. UPDATED January 27 2017 Bob Marley & Johnny Nash: memories from 44 years ago Some time ago, a lady in England tweeted me and asked if I was the author of The Inner Sleeve, a printed record...
by Paul Merry | Jan 4, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Updated 22 June 2016 AMERICA’S Gift has 43 chapters, an Epilogue and 20 pages of Index. See what you’re ordering. Before you order America’s Gift, you’re bound to want to know exactly what’s inside the 390 pages that make up the book. You can even...
