Top Of The Box

I never imagined that the reunion of Carl Barat and Pete Doherty fronting the Libertines would be this good, having almost forgotten just what an excellent band they had promised to be before their personal problems led to the band disbanding.
Here they are performing the top track What A Waster at Reading/Leeds festival in 2010.
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Taken from the excellent album Broken English released by Marianne Faithfull in 1979, and also released as a single The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan became something of a cult classic.
Its use on the soundtrack of the movie Thelma & Louise only served to increase the songs cult status. Here is Marianne appearing on Top Of [...]

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By now everyone must have heard about the upcoming release from one guitar legend in the shape of Jeff Beck, paying homage to another, Les Paul.
The Celebration of Les Paul show was recorded in New York in June 2010 celebrating what would have been the pioneering guitarist’s 95th birthday by playing his friend and mentor’s [...]

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Can you remember what Tracy Tracy of The Primitives looks like?

The Primitives release the 4-track Never Kill A Secret EP in March, their first new recordings since they split up in 1992.
They emerged along bands like My Bloody Valentine & Primal Scream, following the noisy buzz-guitar indie pop of The Jesus & Marychain in the [...]

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As a tribute to Gerry Rafferty who died this week at the age of 63 years old, here is his best known song Baker Street from 1978.
Rafferty had spent a long time battling a drink problem and had been receiving treatment in a Bournemouth hospital, he died peacefully at home however, with his daughter Martha [...]

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