William Shatner has released “Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album.” There are some real highlights on an album that includes such a strange potpourri of guests including: Henry Rollins, Brad Paisley, Jethro Tull flutist Ian Anderson, Cars’ guitarist Elliot Easton, studio whiz Todd Rundgren and Artimus Pyle (from Skynyrd), ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Rick Wakeman of […]
We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year
We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year is a compilation album of Christmas songs played by an all-star collection of hard rock and heavy metal artists released in October 2008. Each track puts together a unique supergroup playing a traditional Christmas selection. The mighty, metal blast of holiday cheer, We Wish […]
Christmas – MonaLisa Twins
CHRISTMAS is an album of Holiday and Winter themed songs by the Mona Lisa Twins. It includes an original Christmas song as well as fresh interpretations of Christmas classics well known and loved. MonaLisa Twins are a pop rock band, fronted by twin-sister singer-songwriters Mona Wagner (vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, harmonica, flute) and Lisa Wagner […]
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The Lion King is a 1994 American musical animated film produced and released by Walt Disney. it is inspired by Hamlet with elements from the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses and Disney’s 1942 film Bambi. The film was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Don […]
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The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and based on the play The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s. The show was the first musical based on a Shakespeare play. The […]
Christine McVie
I am interrupting my present series to celebrate the life and music of Christine McVie, whose death at 79 was announced today. She was one of my musical heroes. Her singing on ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ was seminal in introducing me to the blues. This is my tribute to her. Christine McVie (nee Perfect) was […]
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10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCulla Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school […]
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You Made Me Love You is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Stanley Lupino, Thelma Todd and John Loder. The plot is a modern reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. In London, songwriter Tom Daly falls in love at first sight with a beautiful blonde he spies while at […]
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Today we turn our attention to Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, which legend has it was written specifically for a performance at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Whilst there a several versions of the play on film, I have been able to identify three that merely use the premise for their storyline. Just One of […]
Ikkokukan Cover Band
I first came across Ikkokukan by accident on YouTube. It proved to be a very serendipidous accident because I feel that I have uncovered a hidden gem. At the moment they only have 27 people following them but I feel that they deserve far more and so I am adding this extra post to my […]