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Category Archives: Music
South of the Border, Down Mexico Way
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 October 2018 “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Music, Politics, USA
Tagged Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Donald Trump, Gene Autry, Porfirio Díaz, Rio Grande
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Tennessee Waltzer
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 October 2018 Hats off to singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who has outed herself as a Democrat … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Music, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged human rights, Jim Cooper, LGBTQ. Tennessee Waltz, mid-term US elections, Phil Bredesen, Taylor Swift, Tennessee
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John Lennon
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 March 2018 “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination” John Lennon (1940-1980), British rock musician, … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Music, UK, USA
Tagged "The Beatles", Central Park, John Lennon, New York
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Ichabod
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 28 July 2014 TEN YEARS AGO WE HAD STEVE JOBS, BOB HOPE AND JOHNNY CASH. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Music, Netherlands, UK, USA
Tagged Amsterdam, Apple, Bob Hope, Eltham, Johnny Cash, Los Angeles, Nashville, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Steve Jobs
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Hay Wrap
Antigone1984: This nugget is performed by Irish rock band “The Saw Doctors”, which was formed in Tuam, County Galway, in 1986.
Dancing in the rain
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 January 2014 Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning how … Continue reading
Mungo Jerry
10 January 2014 As an antidote to winter blues, readers might like to check out the hit single “In the Summer Time” that was released in 1970 by the Britain’s Mungo Jerry pop band. Antigone1984: Right on, man! ——– You … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, USA
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Let’s hear it for Tin Pan Alley!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 January 2014 Who would have thunk it? Hard to have forecast that today the front-line … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Guantánamo Bay, Ian Cobain, John Pilger, Julian Assange, PJ Harvey, Radio 4 "Today" Programme, Rowan Williams, Russell Brand, Shaker Aamer, tin pan alley
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“Those were the days, my friend….
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 October 2012 ……WE THOUGHT THEY’D NEVER END” Lyrics from Mary Hopkin’s 1968 single The following … Continue reading
Posted in Music, USA
Tagged 1969 Woodstock Festival, Alfred Hammond, Don McLean, Joan Baez, Loose Change, Mary Hopkin, Sara Davidson, Simon and Garfunkel
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