80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
A Few of My Favourite Tyneside Bands
Introduction A lot of these bands are no longer with us but all of them were worth seeing when they were performing. A lot are still going as well so all is not lost. A couple such as Bon Jordi, Radge Against The Machine and Benwell Floyd are not included because they are from a decade back and I have not heard of them recently.
By Mike Singleton š Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
The Kate Bush Songs You May Have Missed
I often donāt fall in with the mainstream and so this is a trawl through Kate'scatalogue to find ten songs that you may be unaware of. I was also alerted to "MnĆ” na hĆireann" by a comment on a Youtube video so I have also included that, making eleven songs.
By Mike Singleton š Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
You Traveled Back In Time To The 80ās With Your Walkman
I donāt know what it is but the old songs seem to hit different compared to the new music today and by that I mean the songs are expressed differently. Don't quote me though because Harry Styles and Doja Cat are pretty awesome artists. (You can't even lie.)
By šš¶š¾šš½š¶ š².3 years ago in Beat
David Bowie Saw the Downfall of Rock 'n Roll in the Growth of the Internet
Photo by David Shankbone Twenty years ago before Facebook and Twitter drew us all closer together (or further apart), David Bowie sat down with Jeremy Paxman of the the BBC to discuss the future we know now. He recounted Rock ānā Roll, rebellion and how the internet would not only change music, but clue us in on a world that was far more stratified than we had believed.
By Rich Monetti3 years ago in Beat
A Story Behind the Song "That's Life" by FrankĀ Sinatra
This story in a roundabout way involves Frank Sinatra. He started Reprise Records in 1961 and continued to record successful albums with such hits as āThatās Life,ā āStrangers in the Nightā, āSomethinā Stupidā and āMy Wayā.
By Arlo Hennings3 years ago in Beat
Montecito Lad Odyssey
Pageās father drove him up the coast with all his luggage, but the surfboard stayed in SB. His mother made sure of that. Page had been able to smuggle his wetsuit, however. His mother had insisted that it stay, but at the last minute, Page threw it into the car trunk from where he kept it in the garage. He was on the road before his mother noticed it was missing. Page knew his dad didnāt care if he brought it. His dad just wanted to keep things cool with mom or else he had no peace either. Page and his dad were on the same wavelength. They knew the main problem was keeping mom from freaking. She was a real bitch from hell when she did.
By Brett Deforest Maxfield4 years ago in Beat
Montecito Lad Odyssey
The next day there was a phone call from the dean of admissions at Robert Louis Stevenson. He wanted Page to come up for an interview. Page and his mother drove up from Santa Barbara to Monterey that weekend. The school is located on the exclusive 17 Mile Drive where all the famous golf courses are. If you went to school at RLS you could play on one of the most prestigious of the golf courses for free, but Page couldnāt care less about that. Pageās father was a big golfer and Page had grown up around the country club scene. He hated it. It was fake. All he saw were a bunch of rich people who thought they were better than everyone else, who were taken up with materialism, who judged other people less fortunate than themselves, who couldnāt care less about helping others, and who he had to dress up before interacting with. Pageās mother was a grand duchess of the country club scene. She always made sure Page would know how to carry himself properly in that setting and as a result he felt very confident within it, but it repulsed him.
By Brett Deforest Maxfield4 years ago in Beat
Montecito Lad Odyssey
After getting out of Juvenile Hall and getting chewed out by his parents, Page got a call from Cate about his future with the school. At the meeting with Mr. McCloud, the headmaster at Cate, it was decided that Page should find another school for his junior year. The rest of the week was spent contacting second tier prep schools to see about getting Page in at the last minute. It was early September and all the schools were just weeks away from beginning their fall semesters. It seemed odd, to be switching from a top school to a second tier school at this stage of the game to most admissions offices. However, Page had good grades and Mr. McCloud had promised to give excellent recommendations, not mentioning any of the trouble Page was continuously in. Basically, Mr. McCloud wanted to save face for Cate. Cate had a reputation of success and Mr. McCloud didnāt want Page to ruin that. Mr. McCloud was also a very human man. He knew that people screw up. He himself was having an affair with a teacher at the school at the time and was trying to have mercy on a sinner knowing that he himself was in need of mercy.
By Brett Deforest Maxfield4 years ago in Beat
Montecito Lad Odyssey
A black sixty-eight GTO pulled into the 7-11 parking lot around 11:30 am. It had very dark tinted windows in the back. From the custom stereo emanated the powerful chords and riffs of Led Zeppelin. You could hear the music from across the street. There were two young lads just over sixteen in the car. They both got out and went into the store. Inside they immediately noticed that no one was around, including the store manager. The two looked at each other and smiled big, drunken, stupid smiles. The driver of the car, Page, walked over to a case of beer, picked it up, and walked out of the store to the back to his car.
By Brett Deforest Maxfield4 years ago in Beat
