Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, two great voices who had several hits together in the late 60's, but in my opinion they were never more beautiful than on this song. Tammi had been diagnosed as having brain tumour in 1967, she recorded this song with Marvin in 1968 after the first of 8...
1968, my first job, walked into the staffroom at lunchtime and this came on the radio, I'm taken right back to that moment every time I hear this classic.
No apologies for this choice, I've always liked The Carpenters and was reminded of how great they were listening to Radio 2 yesterday afternoon. Michael Ball interviewed Richard Carpenter for about an hour talking about their career and how the songs were conceived, written and arranged. The...
As someone commented on YouTube, "This bass line could be in the Hall of Fame by itself". The great Bernard Edwards, bass player and co founder of Chic with Nile Rogers.
And then Royal Blood came along with Mike Kerr wringing sounds out of his bass guitar I just didn't think were possible...
Loved the game, proper old fashioned FA Cup tie with all the associated shenanigans on and off the field, can't believe nobody's mentioned the pitch side chat incident before the game started. Alex Scott, Dion Dublin and Ashley Williams were chatting away with the FA Cup on a plinth next to...