Showing posts with label Dire Straits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dire Straits. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

my favourite ever TV programme about music

Joe writes: How Pop Songs Work is presented by Charles Hazlewood, the classical conductor, Mercury Music Prize judge and Wyclef Jean fan.

It features Charles and an array of experts explaining not only how pop songs work but why they are so great. Too many goosebump moments to mention but I particularly loved the footage of Joni Mitchell performing A Case Of You live (oh to see that in the flesh), Dire Straits doing Romeo & Juliet, plus the deconstructions of Back To Black (Amy not AC/DC) and Salvador by Jamie T.







Thursday, 18 March 2010

first Charlie Gillett died, then Alex Chilton

Joe writes: sad day



Big Star - Holocaust (buy from Amazon)



Big Star - Thirteen (buy from Amazon)

and two artists Charlie championed:



Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet (buy from Amazon)



Gurrumul - Bapa (buy from Amazon)

The last time I saw Charlie was at a Gurrumul showcase, having previously run into him at a Manu Chao gig in Paris and Joss Stone's debut performance. He was a man of taste and passion and he was very nice with it.