Top Of The Box

This is U2 from the Rattle and Hum album in 1988, the band recorded the track with gospel backing in a church in Harlem during the Joshua Tree tour the previous year.
I doubt that Bono heard it in this way when he wrote it, but it really works so well.
U2 – Still Haven’t Found What [...]

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I don’t remember The Doobie Brothers being very big in the UK and I was never really a fan, but this song was staple diet on independent FM stations in the UK for years.
For many of those years I neither knew the title or the name of the band, but I always remembered the song. [...]

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Mott The Hoople had a few hits during the early seventies, Roll Away The Stone, All the Way to Memphis but none lived up to the expectations of their debut single, written by none other than David Bowie, All The Young Dudes in 1972. Bowie had of course worked with Mott the Hoople’s Mick Ronson [...]

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This is extremely rare footage of Elvis Costello’s first TV appearance in 1977, the original master tape was apparently wiped after the show.
It has to be said it is not the best quality but worthy of being seen and see what all the fuss was about back in the seventies when Costello first appeared.
My favourite [...]

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How I would have loved to have seen Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band back in 1978 when this was recorded ‘live’ in his homeland New Jersey. I missed out on seeing Bruce on his UK Hammersmith dates in 1978 and had to wait another six years before he returned to England.
It was worth the wait [...]

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