London Bye Ta-Ta: David Bowie’s Lost Single
❉ Martin Ruddock on the ‘lost’ Bowie single, recorded 50 years ago today on the singer’s 23rd birthday.
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The Top 50 Songs of 2019
❉ How was 2019 in pop music? For odd, find-and-curate-yourself music, it was great! Eyes down…
‘Mick Ronson: Only After Dark’ reviewed
❉ A definitive, one-stop source of Bowie’s right hand man’s brief period in the solo spotlight.
Cold War: ABBA – ‘The Visitors’
❉ Si Hart revisits (ahem) the mature, melancholy winter of ABBA’s discontent.
Girl: ‘Sheer Greed/Live In Osaka ’82’ reviewed
❉ Greed is good in this two-fer from the cult glam-metal band, writes the Kingcrows’ Lee Terry.
A Christmas Song from John Dredge and The Plinths
❉ Now that’s what I call festive! A Christmas Song For YOU from the guitar pop tunesmiths!
Handsome Dick Manitoba – ‘Born In The Bronx’
❉ Dick Manitoba has come up with a quality album that both keeps the listener invigorated and wanting more, writes Paul Matts.
Disco legend CERRONE announces new album
❉ DNA is Cerrone’s first album since 2016’s Red Lips and will be his first entirely instrumental album of his career.
Beauty in Chaos -‘The Delicate Balance of All Things’
❉ New single from The Mission’s Wayne Hussey and LA post-punk supergroup.
‘She Came From Liverpool! Merseyside Girl-Pop 1962-1968’
❉ Ace Records celebrates some of the more obscure and forgotten female Merseybeat artists.