Something for the weekend
This is why God invented YouTube: Roxy Music performing "Do The Strand" live in 1973. If I'd been in a band back then I would have quit and got a job sweeping roads after seeing this, no way you could top it. The band are rocking their glittery tits off, Brian Eno is doing all sorts of electronic jiggery-pokery over the top of it and - the icing on the cake - Bryan Ferry is wearing a white suit. Insanely great.
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Correct. Blinking marvellous. This can only have been about 30 seconds before Eno left the band.
There is a 'review' piece about CATWTTC on the Internet page of today's Guide section in The Guardian newspaper. Oo-er!
"This Englishman abroad was the author of the very wonderful Number One Songs In Heaven, which closed last December because he'd decided he'd said all he had to say about soul music (if only Richard Littlejohn shared the same sentiments regarding, well, everything). His new blog is a more personal affair with childhood memories accompanying MP3s of long forgotten classics from Jilted John (whose lyrics provided the site with its title), Everything But The Girl and The Bee Gees. There are nostalgic musings about 1970s TV, his mother's record collection and cough sweets - and he even gets all dewy eyed about Noel Edmonds pictured). Someone has to."
It's not on the web site: I keyed it in! Keep on keepin' on Lee.
Thanks Davy.
Nice blog you've got too, I'll put it in my links.
Splendid!!
For some reason, I found the spiv Bryan Ferry you see here so much more compelling than the later Eurotrash incarnation. That was amazing to watch - reminded me of the jolt I got when I brought home the LP of Roxy's Greatest Hits at some point during the punk explosion, where this song was the kick-off track.
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