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(Return To The Valley Of) Out Come The Freaks
This is the one you need to listen to , YouTube changed the link to the lead piece This was the first song I remember hearing on BBC Radio 6 / 6Music, spun by Phil Jupitus, It may have been at home when I worked at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, but this song has stuck with me for close on twenty years.
By Mike Singleton đź’ś Mikeydred 4 years ago in Beat
How Well Do You Know Your Musicals?
After Netflix's release of Tick, Tick...Boom! in November I have had Jonathon Larson's songs on a loop in my brain ever since. Doesn't matter if I'm in the shower, or at work, or trying to sleep because wherever I go it's just: "don't panic, don't jump ship, can't fight it, like taxes" on and on and on!
By Leigh Hooper4 years ago in Beat
Reinventing David Bowie. Top Story - December 2021.
Throughout his career David Bowie took on many personas and characters. Some lasted several months other were a one-time appearance in a music video or photo session. Maybe Bowie used these personas/characters to escape his own realities of fear. This may have been a mechanism for coping with the demands of fame and always having that spotlight on him. When he crawled into one of his personas such as Ziggy Stardust or The Soul Man it was okay for him to express his inner anger and fear because after all it wasn't coming from David Jones but rather from a persona of his larger persona - David Bowie.
By Rick Henry Christopher 4 years ago in Beat
Monarchy In The Uk
Monarchy In The UK seemed a good play on the Sex Pistols "Anarchy In The UK" for a vaguely British Royal Title based playlist. It's hardly ground-breaking but a bit if fun. There will be a hell of a lot that I miss off and where the artist is the one with the Royal title you will probably disagree with my choice, but you can easily make your own up and then share it with me. In fact I would love you to do that.
By Mike Singleton đź’ś Mikeydred 4 years ago in Beat
How Stephen Sondheim Took Us Into The Woods AND Out Of The Woods
My social media feeds are blowing up with Sondheim quotes and I have no complaints, except one. A legend has died. I have to have a bit of perspective- he was 91. He was not known to be sick, and his death was sudden, but a death at 91 can only be considered so distressing to the general public. As a musical theatre fanatic, I'd love to have kept Sondheim on this earth until 150, but that would have been unrealistic.
By Bonnie Joy Sludikoff4 years ago in Beat
Songs About Immigrants and Refugees
In another piece on songs about roots, I concluded with a number that disparaged the very concept of roots, a song about following your dreams and searching for freedom. "People have the ability to lay down their own roots, wherever and whenever they want," I noted. "Maybe part of growing up is not accepting the roots you came with but setting down your own roots in a place and with people of your own choosing."
By Marco den Ouden4 years ago in Beat
"Jazz Is My Story:" A Historical Analysis of Jazz and twentieth Century African-American Literature
The time span from the Bebop time frame to the present—mid-1940s onwards—has been a period of inconceivable social progression in the United States, and in a few get-togethers more so than the African American social class. A variable particularly basic in this outing, and one with which jazz music has been eagerly tied over the earlier century, is African American composition. This class, even more nonchalantly called dim composition, has quite recently been a legitimate thought since the Harlem Renaissance (from around 1919 to 1939), during which observable dim pioneers attempted to lift dim culture and status by making workmanship, driving political turns of events, and pushing the fight for social freedoms. Anyway, jazz music had at this point thrived in American culture as a convincing music style, it was irrelevantly alluded to in dim composition during this period.
By Cheikh Cisse4 years ago in Beat
The Story of Justin & Kelly
This is the story of the beginning of American Idol, how we met Texas native Kelly Clarkson and Georgia native Justin Guarini both compete on the first season of American Idol. The first winner and the first runner up of American Idol who later made a film debut until the film became a huge flop. After their flop film, Clarkson has recorded several songs that has made her a huge phenomenal star while Guarini made his way to the screen and stage.
By Gladys W. Muturi4 years ago in Beat
