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1963 was quite a year...and not just for the Beatles! 20 Aug 2013 | 04:40 pm
50 years ago, the times were definitely a-changing in Britain. The Rolling Stones and the Beatles, plus a few others, were setting the UK pop music scene alight; while in America, Elvis was about to b...
Otis Redding...gentle giant. 17 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bit like my 'meeting' with Dick Gregory (see earlier post), I had but a fleeting acquaintance with Otis Redding, but the occasion stayed with me for over four decades. It was when he appeared at ...
Otis Redding...gentle giant. 1 Jun 2013 | 01:59 am
A bit like my 'meeting' with Dick Gregory (see earlier post), I had but a fleeting acquaintance with Otis Redding, but the occasion stayed with me for over four decades. It was when he appeared at the...
The reality surpasses the expectation...! 1 Apr 2013 | 06:09 pm
How satisfying it is when something you have been working on for over two years - correcting, honing, correcting again and then finessing...finally becomes reality and you hold the finished book in yo...
TWO SAXOPHONISTS - FOUR SAXES (or possibly FIVE!) 24 Mar 2013 | 05:47 pm
An historic occasion..19th & 20 March 1969. The filming of "Supershow", in a disused linoleum factory somewhere in West London, took two days. Its all-star cast of musicians from the UK and the USA wa...
1963 was quite a year...and not just for the Beatles! 18 Jan 2013 | 07:05 pm
50 years ago, the times were definitely 'a-changing' in Britain. The Rolling Stones and the Beatles, plus a few others, were setting the UK pop music scene alight; while in America, Elvis was about to...
IT'S HERE! THE KINDLE VERSION OF "PLAYING THE BAND" is now available. 3 Nov 2012 | 04:36 pm
Nicely in time for Christmas, "PLAYING THE BAND"...the fascinating story of drummer Jon Hiseman's life on the road, from the '60s up to the present day, is now available on Amazon Kindle. Priced at £6...
"A NIGHT IN THE SUN" (Jon Hiseman & Marcio Montarroyos).... 30 Oct 2012 | 03:42 pm
The CD version of “A Night in the Sun”, Jon's first solo album, which he recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, back in 1981 is now available on Amazon. It can be found by entering: Jon Hiseman - "A nigh...
