To Sir With Love – Lulu
The smell of old velvet seats and stale popcorn lingers faintly in the memory, inextricably linked to certain pieces of…
Marie Osmond & Andy Gibb – ‘Just Once
It’s a memory-scene opener that lives not in a cafĂ©, but in the shimmering, almost hyper-real glow of a 1982…
Phil Collins – Against All Odds
The year is 1984. Pop music is an explosive landscape of synth-sheen, technicolor videos, and maximalist hooks. Yet, cutting through…
The Zodiacs – “Stay”
The late hour radio hums with an archival warmth. The air is cool, perhaps a little damp from a passing…
Dizzy – Tommy Roe (1969)
The sound is unmistakable, a pure, unadulterated shot of late-sixties euphoria, yet its simplicity is a masterful deception. We are…
Patti Smith – Because The Night (1978)
I first heard this piece of music on a static-laced college radio broadcast, late one winter night. The dial was…
My Love – Petula Clark 1966
The air in the studio, Western Recorders in Los Angeles, must have been electric, thick with the scent of hot…
Sir Barry Gibb
đź‘‘ The Knight Who Couldn’t Stand Up: Barry Gibb and the Weight of a Musical Empire The music, the lights,…
Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky (1970)
The air in the garage was thick with the faint metallic scent of ozone and the stale reek of yesterday’s…
The New Vaudeville Band – Winchester Cathedral (1966)
It is 1966. The air is thick with the revolutionary feedback of Jimi Hendrix, the baroque pop drama of The…