| Mott The Hoople – Marionette Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| If you listen to the live recording at a Broadway theatre in May 1974 (on Shades Of Ian Hunter) there's a kind of shocked pause at the end before a few of the audience started clapping. Clearly an end of an era song, like Bowie at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973 or Dylan in Manchester in 1966 when he went electric! | |
| The Kinks – Dead End Street Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I realised the other day that this song is one of the very few 60s songs influenced by the Kitchen Sink vogue in the late 50s/early 60s. It began on the stage with Look Back In Anger, percolated to books like Room At The Top, Saturday Night Sunday Morning and This Sporting Life, then to movies, as all these books were successful films, and then belatedly to pop in the form of Dead End Street. Having spent the early 60s living at both ends of Kings Road, Chelsea, the heart of Swinging London, I was quite surprised later in life to find that most people's experience, as Sir Bob is quoted as saying, didn't find this era as much fun as I did. |
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