Ringo Starr – “Photograph”, “You’re Sixteen” And “Six O’Clock”

In 1974 while visiting my older brother in Invercargill at the very bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, I bought the Ringo Starr album “Ringo”, featuring the single “Photograph”, which went to No. 1 in America. Another song from the album, also a Number 1 hit in the USA, was “You’re Sixteen”. I also rather […]

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Jon English – “Turn The Page” and “Behind Blue Eyes”

Jon English has been a leading light of the Australian music scene for decades, but I mainly remember him for his version of “Turn The Page” (by Bob Seger) in 1975. I also remember him playing Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the Seventies. Although Australian, English was […]

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Roger Daltrey – “Giving It All Away”

It’s my birthday today, so I thought for this post I’d pick a singer also having a birthday today: Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, with “Giving It All Away”, from his first solo album “Daltrey” in 1973. I’ll feature supergroup The Who separately, this one’s just for Roger… And here it is, first […]

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