Music Sounds Better With Two

"I'm outspoken, I wasn't part of the clique." - Jimmy Ruffin You may well be wondering what a Motown song from 1966 is ...

First, a short explanation as to why there has been a pause here – apart from various holidays and birthdays, there was the rather trau...

And so we return to the increasingly awkward subject of the Glam Slam.*  I say awkward as it is coming towards its natural end here in Augus...

And now we have, for all intents and purposes, the last (and in a way, first) great song of the Glam Slam era; I say last as outside of a co...

If there is one thing that I sometimes think music writers tend to discount a bit, it's sentiment.  Sentiment is all over music; strong ...

It can be a bit disturbing, listening to the BBC sometimes; as the writer of this blog especially I can wonder just what is going on. ...

This is one of those songs that takes me back to a time – very roughly, when it was a big hit, a time I don’t recall that well, but thi...