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Gilbert Becaud – Pauvre Pecheur – March 18, 1955 – Le Voix de Son Maitre For pennies a day you can keep the archive up and running: Become a Patron! The legendary French singer-songwriter/actor Gilbert Becaud, known affectionately as “Monsieur 100,000 Volts”, Gilbert Becaud was one of the most popular...
We’re here because of your support: Become a Patron! It’s always something of a mixed blessing to run across a concert by a band who were well known, but very little existing of them recorded in concert under decent conditions. In this case, it’s a good sounding concert but the...
A 70’s triple bill this week, via BBC Radio 1‘s In Concert series from January 13, 1979. Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric and Rachel Sweet share the bill in one of the more decade-defining concerts of the late 70’s, with a heavy dose of Retro, Punk and Theatrical – just like...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fat White Family – in concert at Eurockéennes – July 4, 2014 – RFI According to press reports, UK Sleaze/Psych Rockers The Fat White Family have achieved a level of notoriety not seen for some time. Banned from some festivals...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM Kicking off the holiday weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York on August...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Can – Live at Lyon, France – January 17, 1976 – Band soundboard. One of my favorite bands of all time tonight. Can were part of that initial wave of Progressive music to come out of Europe in the early 1970s....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Georgie Auld – Blue and Sentimental – Coral Records – 1953 Not that I got out of my way to collect them, but I’ve been running across quite a number of discs by musicians who were, in one way or another,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Al Green Live At Glastonbury 2009 – BBC 6 Music Something classic tonight by way of the inimitable and legendary Al Green, live in concert at the Glastonbury Festival in 2009. Since we’re getting close to the onslaught of Summer Festivals,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Verve – Live At Reading Festival 1997 – BBC Radio 1 The Verve were one of those bands who went through the struggle and the slog of gaining an audience and a following. And when they achieved the success they...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Kinks – Live At The Rainbow – 1977 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – BBC Radio 1 The legendary Kinks tonight, in concert from The Rainbow Theater in 1977. The stories, the personnel changes, the breakups, the personalities –...
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