by Paul Merry | Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Updated 28 July 2016. “Your blog was brilliantly written and very informative! :)” Brenhda Greenwood @BrenhdaG New Orleans, 2 Jan 2015 You may have read my ‘Top Ten Rock & Roll Records Preceding Rock & Roll’ post from August 2013. Far from...
by Paul Merry | Dec 11, 2014 | Uncategorized |
UPDATED 30 JULY 2016. You know Oscar Wilde*, Marty Wilde** and Kim Wilde***. Now meet Carlos Wilde. It’s not often you associate any decent rock, blues or even credible pop music with the Iberian Peninsula, that part of western Europe encompassing Spain, Portugal,...
by Paul Merry | Dec 5, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Updated 29 July 2016. Grohl’s Sound City doco climaxes with Paul McCartney/Nirvana collaboration It’s taken a while, but I finally got around to watching Dave Grohl’s 2013 documentary on the unlikely Los Angeles recording studio, Sound City. I started watching...
by Paul Merry | Nov 28, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Updated: 19 Jan 2019. When James Brown rolled the Rolling Stones – plus the first funk record Watching HBO’s new documentary on James Brown debunked one old myth that’s been around for years, amongst many other things, and also enlightened me on the first...
by Paul Merry | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
UPDATED: 3 August 2016. The birth of Heavy Metal. Hey, I was there! I’ve suddenly realized just how fortunate I am. The penny dropped while recording my ‘blues-rock to heavy metal’ broadcasts on Code Zero Radio a couple of years ago. I suddenly became aware...
