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High Inspired If You Want Me/ Where Do You Go
High Inspired is the brainchild of Ian Child, sorry no pun intended. Child, by his own admission, is a suburban kid, now resident in Barcelona, who fell in love with soundtracks, theme tunes, the Top Twenty and The Beatles.
It’s Good to be Free - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, London Palladium
1:30 am on an early May Friday morning, in a deserted M6 service station stifling a deserved yawn, I stir a dispensed cup of coffee and deliberate over which calorific chocolate snack should help keep me awake for the last leg of a journey that has taken me from Norwich to Preston, via London.
The Music of the Vietnam War
By the time of the Vietnam/American War (1955 – 1975), music was used to help soldiers deal with the complexities of war whilst keeping them in touch with each other and the life they left, back home.
A Short Biog of The Walker Brothers
Scott Engel (1943 - 2019) came from Ohio and was a teen idol in the making in the late 50s, making several appearances on Eddie Fisher's TV series (Carrie Fisher’s father).
ZANI'S Video of The Week - John Lennon - The Making Of Imagine Album
Peter Darrell’s Mods and Rockers Ballet 1963 on ZANI
Ken Dodd Remembered on ZANI
A Brief History of the Hollywood Bowl on ZANI
Music Press: The Mersey Beat (1960 - 1964)
The Mersey Beat was a fortnightly newspaper started by Bill Harry and his partner in 1960. The purpose of the broadsheet was to cover the emerging beat scene of the sixties in Liverpool. An early “Gig Guide” the Mersey Beat was full of information about the groups, photographs and who was appearing and where.
The Conflation of Music and Drugs