Monday 7 October 2013

80s Rock vs 80s Pop - Where Do You Stand?

M.Hutchence chanteur du groupe INXS
M.Hutchence chanteur du groupe INXS (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

80s Rock vs 80s Pop - Where Do You Stand?

An 80s music battle! Blood Brothers features an 80's rock god so you know where I stand. But what about you?

 What do you think? 80s Rock vs 80s Pop - which was better? There were some amazing releases in both genres - the songs in this vid are only a handful! 

Have your say in the comments - where do you stand?



The video is courtesy of www.facebook.com/beingstuckinthe80s

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Wednesday 2 October 2013

So When You Gonna Read The Blood Brothers Newsletter?

So When You Gonna Read The Blood Brothers Newsletter?





Why waste any more time?  Here it is! bit.ly/19hx6SO.



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Tuesday 1 October 2013

Day 28 Blood Brothers Count Down Day 28 of 28: Blood Brothers Is Here And It Is Celebration Time

Day 28: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 28 of 28: Blood Brothers Is Here And It Is Celebration Time


Blood Brothers, the novel, is launched. You can find the Launch Newsletter here http://eepurl.com/F5FgL
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And it is time for Celebration
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Monday 30 September 2013

Day 27: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 27 of 28: Emmerson, Fanfare For The Common Man And Blood Brothers

Day 27: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 27 of 28: Emmerson, Fanfare For The Common Man And Blood Brothers


My new Book - Blood Brothers is to be launched on 1st October. This is last day of the countdown to the launch.

The Best was a short-lived supergroup featuring Keith Emerson (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer) on keyboards, John Entwistle (of The Who) on bass and vocals, Joe Walsh (Eagles, James Gang, and solo fame) on guitar and vocals, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers) on guitar, and Simon Phillips (the Jack Bruce Band, 801, the Jeff Beck Group; later of Toto) on drums. 

Here is Keith Emerson at his best and I can't think of a better way to celebrate the end of the countdown. Tomorrow is the last day and Blood Brothers will be out there all over the world (courtesy of Amazon)

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Sunday 29 September 2013

Day 26: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 26 of 28: We Are Nearly There: Another Extract

Day 26: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 26 of 28: We Are Nearly There: Another Extract

My new Book - Blood Brothers is to be launched on 1st October. This is day 26 of the countdown to the launch and here are the first three paragraphs of Chapter 1.

"Earlier that same day, while the Glamerines were preparing for their concert, a few miles away in a very ordinary house in that very ordinary Midland's town, Middleton, a girl who just might not be ordinary was getting ready to go and see them.

At that time, Jenny Blond was a 17 year old school girl studying for her A Levels. She was living a "nice girl's" life. That meant she lived in a nice house on a nice street, on the nicer side of Middleton. Jenny was the child of two well-meaning and hard-working parents who both taught at the school that Jenny attended. They lived in a shabby-chic Victorian end-of-terrace. I don't think they would have used the words shabby-chic to describe it in 1982, though. It looked out over a lovely park and they had good neighbors. There was a friendly Sikh on one side and a retired shop keeper and his wife on the other. The parents, Robert and Mary Blond, were staunch members of their local Methodist church. And, as for Jenny, she looked the kind of girl who suited her brown school uniform - it went with her mousy brown hair.

Jenny had no intention of spending the rest of her life in Middleton. She was studious at school because that could provide a route out. Her parents had expected her to be academic and she was, because she chose to be. She had her own small circle of very carefully picked friends and her one particular friend, Peggy. Peggy shared her greatest love and that was for Julian Justin and the Glamerines."

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Saturday 28 September 2013

Day 25: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 25 of 28: 80's Pop and It is Ultravox and Definitely Not The Glamerines

Day 25: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 25 of 28: 80's Pop and It is Ultravox and Definitely Not The Glamerines


My new Book - Blood Brothers is to be launched on 1st October. This is day 25 of the countdown to the launch and I thought it was time for some true 80's pop. Here is Ultravox with We Stand Alone.

Ultravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements.

I'm sure Ultravox would have encountered the Glamerines (featured in Blood Brothers) when they were out on tour in the 80s.
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Friday 27 September 2013

Day 24: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 24 of 28:An Extract - Growing Up Gay And Catholic

Day 24: Blood Brothers Count Down Day 24 of 28:An Extract - Growing Up Gay And Catholic.


My new Book - Blood Brothers is to be launched on 1st October. This is day 24 of the countdown to the launch and today it is a little extract. Here, rock star, Julian, in 1982, is trying to explain his sexuality to the very young Jenny.

"Jenny, I come from a very religious family. I was brought up a Catholic. And, no, I wasn't a little boy who was touched up by his priest. All our priests were lovely and I could even talk to one of them about what was happening to me. I could never tell my mum and dad; they would never have understood and they would have been broken hearted."

He'd been to a Catholic boarding school and it was there he'd realized that he was different. At first, he was appalled by what he felt. He had tried so hard to be a good Catholic boy – just like everyone else. He punished himself day after day for what he thought of as a sin; a mortal sin for which he was going to hell.

"It was that one priest that saved me. Eventually, I found the courage to confess what I was going through and luckily it was him I told. He didn't believe I should do anything about it, but he did believe it was OK for me to be who I was. It wasn't wrong to have the feelings even if he thought it would have been wrong to act on them."

The priest had told him that you didn't lose the love of God just because you were born gay. And, no, it didn't mean he was going to hell.

There was a lot Jenny didn't understand about all of this.  She knew more about homosexuality than she did about Catholicism. But she felt incredibly sorry for the young man beside her and the child he had been. She could feel how the years had hurt. Right then, he was as far from the rock star in her wall poster as it was possible to be. But she found herself caring as a friend far more for the person beside her.  She held on to his hand in hers very tightly. The gesture made him tremble but he fought the urge to cry; he wanted to tell her the rest and why he still covered up his identity as an adult.

"I'd always been a musician and I can't remember a time when I didn't write music."

Music was where he put all his passion and the pain. The first rock concert he went to was a revelation; it was so loud and so absorbing that there was no room for anything else. It was like playing Beethoven very loudly on the piano; it could drive everything else out. Then, he had come to London, originally to uni. but that hadn't lasted. In the first six months, he'd gone completely crazy; picking up one unknown man and then another and then suffering agonies of remorse. With everything else there had been drugs of various kinds. Somehow, through it all, he'd kept playing the music and he'd started singing with a band around the pubs in Camden.

One night, Rod, the leader of the Glamerines, had turned up. They were already an established band and they were looking for someone who had the voice and looks to be their new frontman. 
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