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Eric Clapton is once again playing live with a little help from his friends.
Eric Clapton has announced five live shows here in the UK: three in May with Steve Winwood and two in February with another rock legend, Jeff Beck.
These days, concert tickets for any UK shows are difficult to purchase, especially with someone who [...]

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The Blockheads were a fantastic band and Ian Dury a charismatic front man, together they found some commercial success in the late seventies with Stiff Records, after years playing the London pub circuit and attracting a cult following.
This is one of my favourite Ian Dury tracks, Reasons To Be Cheerful Pt.3, this clip is [...]

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John Prine was ‘discovered’ by Kris Kristofferson on the Chicago folk scene and released his first album in 1971. The album called John Prine contained the song Sam Stone, which would become one of Prine’s signature songs.
The song is a painful reference to the phenomenon of morphine addiction among US war veterans as a result [...]

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This is a clip of the oddly eccentric but beautiful Kate Bush, recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1979 on the Tour of Life.
Kate performs the track Oh England My Lionheart taken from her second album released in 1978 Lionheart.
Kate Bush – Oh England My Lionheart – Live 1979

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Frampton Comes Alive was the best selling album of 1976, and for a while Peter Frampton reached the massive commercial audience that he had yearned to reach, everybody loved the album at the time although in truth it only had a few stand out tunes.
This track was always a favourite, Baby I Love Your Way.
Peter [...]

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