#stars (live at montreux)

[songspiral]

"Stars (Live at Montreux)" (Janis Ian Cover) by Nina Simone

#music #song spiral #nina simone #janis ian #stars #live at montreux #february 21st #2023 #happy birthday

[longliverockback]

Deep Purple Machine Head [50 Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Box Set] 2024 Universal ————————————————— Tracks CD One: Dweezil Zappa 2024 Remix 01. Highway Star 02. Maybe I’m a Leo 03. Pictures of Home 04. Never Before 05. Smoke on the Water 06. Lazy 07. Space Truckin’ 08. When a Blind Man Cries 2024 Remaster 09. Highway Star 10. Maybe I’m a Leo 11. Pictures of Home 12. Never Before 13. Smoke on the Water 14. Lazy 15. Space Truckin’

Tracks CD Two:  In Concert ´72 01. Introduction 02. Highway Star 03. Strange Kind of Woman 04. Maybe I’m a Leo 05. Smoke on the Water 06. Never Before 07. Lazy 08. Space Truckin’ 09. Lucille 10. Maybe I’m a Leo [soundcheck]

Tracks CD Three: Montreux ´71 1. Swiss Yodel 2. Speed King 3. Strange Kind of Woman 4. Into the Fire 5. Child in Time 6. Paint It Black 7. Wring That Neck (Hard Road) 8. Black Night 9. Lucille 

Tracks Blu-ray: Dweezil Zappa 2024 Remix 01. Highway Star 02. Maybe I’m a Leo 03. Pictures of Home 04. Never Before 05. Smoke on the Water 06. Lazy 07. Space Truckin’ 08. When a Blind Man Cries 1974 U.S. Quad Mix 09. Highway Star 10. Maybe I’m a Leo 11. Pictures of Home 12. Never Before 13. Smoke on the Water 14. Lazy 15. Space Truckin’ Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound Mixes 16. When a Blind Man Cries 17. Maybe I’m a Leo 18. Lazy

Tracks LP: 01. Highway Star 02. Maybe I’m a Leo 03. Pictures of Home 04. Never Before 05. Smoke on the Water 06. Lazy 07. Space Truckin’ 08. When a Blind Man Cries —————————————————

Ritchie Blackmore

Ian Gillan

Roger Glover

Jon Lord

Ian Paice

* Long Live Rock Archive

#DeepPurple #Deep Purple #Ritchie Blackmore #Ian Gillan #Roger Glover #Jon Lord #Ian Paice #Machine Head #Reissue #Super Deluxe #50th Anniversary #Box Set #Hard #2024

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on November 6th, 1995 - Queen Story!

“Made In Heaven” album released in the UK

👉 'Dedicated to the immortal spirit of Freddie Mercury'

🔸THE DUCK HOUSE

➡️ montreuxcelebration.com

The Lake House or Duck House or "Duckingham Palace" as named by Freddie Mercury, adorns the cover of Queen's latest album "Made in Heaven". The picture of this small wooden shed was taken by Richard Gray during his stay in Montreux with the band. Richard Gray was Queen's official photographer and designer until 2018.

The Lake House, built in the 1970s, is used as a shed for the garden tools of the owners of the premises.

Mountain Studios was one of the best studios in the world in the 1970s. The most famous rock or jazz bands and musicians came to record their works with David Richards. Some of them were looking for more intimate and personal places to stay while in town rather than hotels such as the Montreux Palace.

It was in fact the secretary of Mountain Studios that contacted the owners of the premises who willingly rented their second home (Lake House) at Mountain Studios for their artists.

This property being protected by a high and long fence, the stars were thus safe and protected from prying eyes. Moreover, the residence is also located away from nearby buildings, which made it possible to organize majestic celebrations without disturbing the neighbourhood.

Freddie Mercury has stayed at this property several times. His room was spacious.

The very large and well decorated living room had a large bay window with a magnificent and direct view over the garden, the lake, the mountains and the famous "Duck House".

Why "Duck House"? Simply because many ducks stayed there in the garden and surroundings.

Several other artists have chosen this place as their temporary home and have found inspiration there. Boy George, Keith Emerson, Julian Lennon to name a few.

▶️ ↘You will find more informations and photos about the Lake House on this page: https://www.montreuxcelebration.com/en-45-the-duck-house.html

➡Pic 2/3 from interhome.it

👉👉The photo of Mercury's statue by Irena Sedlecká on the front cover of this album was taken from it's small model, as the monument itself was ready in 1996 🔸

#freddie mercury #queen band #london #zanzibar #legend #queen #brian may #john deacon #freddiebulsara #roger taylor #made in heaven album #1995 #montreux #duck house #irena sedlecka

[whitequeen-ofrohan]

Dear Freddie,

today is a special day for it's your birthday. Let me tell you, though: I celebrate you every single day and there is no day in which I do not think of you.

Melancholy is one of the first feelings I feel when I think of you for it's impossible not to remember you with a glimpse of that visceral emotion. Still... remember is not the right verb for you are always on my mind. Sometimes, when I look up to the sky, I almost see you. Maybe it's just my imagination, but I like to think that you smile down to those who love you, me included. That's when melancholy dissipates and joy blooms like a colourful flower: a rainbow of emotions start to grow in my soul, touched by their shiny nuances that paint it like a canvas.

I feel you everyday: in every breath, sound, smile, tear. I feel you in every heartbeat, in those people I love and those who love me back. You are in the ink of each letter I write, in the faces of the people I meet, in the rain, in the sun, in the rainbows, in the moon and in all the stars. You are always with me anchored on my heart as a beautiful melody and everlasting song. You are evergreen, Freddie. Your immortal soul will shine forevermore.

Happy birthday angel among the angels. I'm sure they are a little envious of your beautiful voice. Keep singing, Freddie. We still hear you. I still feel you. We'll keep looking up and hoping to see nuances of you in the sky. Just know that your semblance is in my every day life, beating like a heart.

I feel you.

I breathe you.

I live you.

I love you, Freddie.

Every single day of my life.

Yours truly,

Eleonora

P.s. What's the theme of the party this year? I'll wear whatever you want: silly hat, black and white, I'll be a wicked character... I'm ready. Just say the word.

P.p.s. On my birthday I blew the candle in front of your statue in Montreux. Now I'm holding your muffin. Ready Freddie? Make a wish. 🤍

#music #queen #queen band #freddie mercury #brian may #rock and roll #john deacon #roger taylor #happy birthday #happy birthday Freddie Mercury

[ausetkmt]

Nina Simone - Let It Be Me

“Stars”

Let It Be Me

1987

Simone first covered Janis Ian’s searing, mordant meditation on fame during her infamous set at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival; suffering from bipolar disorder, she goes through something like a mental breakdown during the performance. (The scene is a highlight of Liz Garbus’ Oscar-nominated documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?) This spine-tingling 1987 version—Simone’s best, most coherent rendition—was recorded live at Hollywood’s intimate Vine Street Bar & Grill for Let It Be Me.

Written by Ian when she was just 20, “Stars” is a potent critique of star-making machinery: The narrator is both a weary observer of fame, watching faded stars who live their lives in “sad cafés and music halls,” and a tragic figure undone by fame herself. Simone’s embittered, conversational phrasing transforms the song into a cosmically exhausted, stream-of-consciousness rant. She sounds so nakedly weary and afflicted with pathos, you worry she might not even make it to the last verse. But ultimately, Simone’s piano accompaniment builds to a rousing, show-must-go-on climax: “I’ll come up singing for you even though I’m down.” Break out the Kleenex: Few other songs in Simone’s arsenal can make you truly grasp the toll she paid for being alive and giving us her music. –Jason King

Listen: “Stars”

#Nina Simone - Let It Be Me #Nina #Nina Simone #Let it Be Me #Black Music #Black Music Month

[scotianostra]

On January 6th 1981, the Scottish author AJ Cronin died in Switzerland.

AJ Cronin was born in Cardross, Dumbartonshire in 1896. He was a fine athlete as well as an outstanding student; qualifying in medicine at Glasgow with top honours. He worked at the Rotunda, Dublin, and on the Clyde before moving to Tredegar in Wales. He was a Medical Inspector of Mines, and was involved in the mining disaster at Ystfad colliery in which 38 miners drowned, and drew on these experiences in his writing. He moved on to Harley Street in London and finally established a very successful practice at 152 Westbourne Grove in Notting Hill, west London, where he practised until 1930.

Cronin’s writing career began when he was given six month’s bed rest for a digestive complaint. While convalescing from an attack of gastric ulcers on a lonely farm in the Highlands, he wrote Hatter’s Castle in 1931, about a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of his noble birth. It became a best seller. In the United States, a reviewer for The New York Times found it a work of a novelist “destined for the seats of the mighty.”

Thereafter, Dr. Cronin devoted himself full-time to writing. In 1935, he wrote The Stars Look Down, the story of a North England mining community that quickly captured attention. While The Times of London said the author had “a bent for melodrama,” The New York Times found him “uncannily like Dickens.” In 1941, the book was made into a highly praised film directed by Carol Reed for M-G-M. Story of Missionary in China.

The Citadel again drew on Mr. Cronin’s own experiences. It was the story of a young Scottish doctor in a Welsh mining village who sets up a fashionable practice in London and realizes the values of the life he had abandoned.

When The Keys of the Kingdom was published in 1941, it passed the half-million mark in sales and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. The hero of the novel was a self-sacrificing Catholic priest sent by his superiors into long service as a missionary in China.

By 1958, the total sales of his books in the United States alone had passed the seven million.

Arguably Cronins most well known work is ‘Dr. Finlay’s Casebook, about a pair of Scottish doctors sharing a practice. It became one of the longest-running British television series.

A J Cronin died at the age of 84 in a clinic in the village of Glion, near Montreux, Switzerland, where he had lived for the last 25 years of his life.

The pics include a curios advert for Ballenitins’s an American brewery, the campaign created a series of ads with at least thirteen different writers. They asked each one “How would you put a glass of Ballantine Ale into words?” Each author wrote a page that included reference to their beer

His 1952 piece for Ballantine was done as a reminiscence of his first taste of Ballantine in America, just after a well-played round of golf:

My first meeting with Ballantine Ale is still vivid in my memory.

It was a sweltering summer day at York Harbor, Maine, shortly after I first came to these United States. I thought it would be a memorable day because I shot the lowest golf score I ever made — a 72.

But in the locker room after the game, a friend said: “Try a Ballantine.”

I did — straight from the icebox. And as it flowed over by parched throat — tangy and refreshing in every swallow — I realized with a big thrill that my search for my favourite beverage was ended. I had always like ale, but here was something lighter, something better than anything I’d ever had abroad.

Well, my discovery outweighed by golf course. I remember that day as the time the “three rings” first rang the bell for me.

The last pic is of his grave at Cimetière de La Tour-de-Peilz La Tour-de-Peilz, District de la Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut, Vaud, Switzerland

#scotland #scottish #history #author #doctor

[davidlynchbf]

#:’) #nina simone

[natromanxoff]

November 26, 1996

(x)

Queen star is left in exile

EXPRESS FOREIGN SERVICE

QUEEN superstar Freddie Mercury took up his place in history yesterday — but it wasn't in the country where he spent most of his life.

Snubbed by authorities in Britain, his friends and family finally got permission to erect a nine-foot statue in his honour in the Swiss town of Montreux, where Mercury had a home.

Former Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor yesterday joined the Aids victim's family in Switzerland for the unveiling of the monument.

Their request to locate their tribute near his permanent home in Kensington was rejected by the local authority.

"It's dreadful," said Queen drummer Roger Taylor.

"Kensington and Chelsea obviously prefer putting up statues to dead generals and jobless Royal consorts to rock stars.

"You would have thought they could have found it in their hearts to find a little space for Freddie.

“But with people like that, he’s probably better off in Montreux, which has a fabulous view and people who are honoured to have a memorial to Freddie." Claudia Beach, the wife of Queen's manager Jim, added: "Obviously our first choice was London, but over the past four years we have approached everyone we could think of and they all turned us down.”

“With an official fan club of 28,000 members, it would have been good for tourism too."

Freddie, who was 45 when he died in 1991, lived in for 20 years.

[Photo caption: TRIBUTE: Queen star Brian May]

[Photo caption: OUR SON: Parents Bomi and Jer with the statue]

#queen #queen band #roger taylor #freddie mercury #brian may #queen scans #magazine’s title is unknown #jer bulsara #bomi bulsara

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#2/8 #Spotify

[mmmthornton]

#nope 2022 #music #Spotify

[tidalwavesmusic]

PAUL JACKSON ‘BLACK OCTOPUS’ (1978)

Paul Jackson (born in Oakland, California in 1947) needs little introduction. Paul began playing bass at the age of nine and was considered by many of his teachers to be a musical prodigy. Jackson was known as a “Musician’s Musician” and shaped a sound that launched a new direction in contemporary music: the so-called ‘Pulse Playing’, a trademark sound of close-meshed funk grooves combined with sensational rhythms. With this innovative approach, he influenced entire generations of jazz and funk musicians to come. Paul’s compositions were sampled by big acts from the likes of Prince, TLC, Mobb Deep and NWA…just to name a few.

Paul Jackson was a founding member of the Headhunters under Herbie Hancock (THEgroup responsible for their ground-breaking fusion and jazz-funk compositions that took the world by storm in the 70’s). The solid union between Hancock and Jackson has been especially evident in the many international tours they have made together…not to mention that he participated on most of the Headhunters albums and Herbie’s solo albums.

Paul has also worked as a producer and as a studio/live musician alongside acts such as Santana, Sonny Rollins and The Pointer Sisters. He was a frequent guest performer at renowned international festivals such as the Montreux and Newport events. Jackson’s composing has not gone without recognition and was nominated for Grammy Awards in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Like other highly talented, creatively motivated engineers of music, Paul has expanded his career to other mediums such as playing on blockbuster movie soundtracks such as “Death wish” and “Dirty Harry”.

Paul Jackson also wrote five solo albums worth listening to – including the monster of an album that is known as “Black Octopus” which is considered to be a kind of lost Headhunters album.

His debut album “Black Octopus” saw the light of day in 1978 and is a total piece of art filled with abstract sticky funky grooves, floating electric piano playing, strong thumping bass lines, raw heavy drums and amazing vocal acrobatics (Jackson himself takes vocals in 3 out of 5 songs, and his soulful singing voice strikes an emotional chord that does not go unnoticed).

On “Black Octopus” you’ll also find some of the best all-star musicians from the likes of Alphonse Mouzon (Roy Ayers, Betty Davis, Azar Lawrence)…and last but not least fellow Headhunters Bennie Maupin and Herbie Hancock himself.

With “Black Octopus” Paul Jackson wrote the book on how a jazz-funk-fusion album should sound like. The fact that the album was only distributed in Japan at the time (Jackson resided in Tokyo since the late 70’s, where he passed away in 2021) continues to increase its reputation as an album that is VERY hard to find. This is a must-have gem…not only for fans of jazz, funk and rare grooves, but also for DJs and collectors around the globe.

Tidal Waves Music in collaboration with Totown Records now proudly presents the first ever official reissue outside of Japan of this fantastic Jazz-Funk masterpiece (originally released in 1978 on Eastworld/Toshiba EMI). This rare record (original copies tend to go for large amounts on the secondary market) is now finally back available as a limited 180g vinyl edition (limited to 500 copies) complete with the original artwork and obi strip. Also included is a double-sided insert containing rare pictures of the band.

Available in stores July 28, 2023. Pre-order now from www.lightintheattic.net

An exclusive variant (#300 numbered copies GOLD COLORED Vinyl) is also available from www.vinylmeplease.com

#paul jackson #black octopus #1978 #headhunters #herbie hancock #jazzfunk #japan #totownrecords #tidalwavesmusic #lightintheattic #VMP #vinylmeplease

[urtopia]

#stars #nina simone #sad #Spotify

[wanderinthedeep]

#mood #Spotify

[randomvarious]

Today’s compilation:

Louisiana Scrapbook 1987 Blues / R&B / Jazz / Brass Band

Well, the Rykodisc label really did try with this one. We've got a good mix of genres here from both established entities as well as up-and-comers to present a 1980s snapshot of one of the most musically unique and diverse places in all of America: the great state of Louisiana. Louisiana's a place that seemingly likes to put its own spin on any genre that it can get its hands on; New Orleans jazz is different from regular jazz, New Orleans R&B is different from regular R&B, etc., etc. And sure, every locality tends to develop its own sound when they build their own genre-specific scene, but Louisianan ones are often deserving of their own distinct category, because a lot of times what they pump out is not just a mere slight regional difference; it can tend to be damn near evolutionary. Go listen to people like Professor Longhair, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint if you need some convincing.

So, on this release you can find a blend of Louisianan styles, from blues, to R&B, to jazz, to brass band, and even a little zydeco too. A lot of it doesn't sound like music that could come from any other place in the world, but a lot of it also unfortunately happens to be cursed by the dreaded and soullessly sanitized 80s studio sound™ that hasn't aged well at all. It's a sound that you know when you hear it; one that somehow manages to suck almost all of the life out of almost all of the instruments that it captures; the warmth of the 70s completely dissipated in its midst. Of course, not every 80s song suffers from this malady, but there are a whole lot that do, and that rings true for most of the songs on this CD.

But when you're not in that stuffy studio, that's when it's good. And such is the case for the pair of live performances from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band that were recorded in Montreux, Switzerland. The DDBB ends up providing an excellent jazz-blues opener, and then for the album's penultimate track, a lighthearted medley that alternates between The Flintstones theme, "The Star Spangled Banner," and that military bugle wake-up song, "Reveille." Go ahead and make that silly thing a fixture of your 4th of July playlists, because as much as I find most "patriotic" music to be mindlessly eyeroll-inducing, that one's really just plain fun.

And don't sleep on Jo-El Sonnier's "Louisiana Blues" either. It's recorded in studio, but dude's got a good voice and he plays both accordion and harmonica on it. Plus, there's a nice soft touch of steel guitar on there as well.

Really love what so much of the 80s had to offer, but we also need to have a conversation about all the songs that it managed to mar. Not even the uniqueness of Louisiana could really overcome it 😔.

Highlights:

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "Mardi Gras In New Orleans" Jo-El Sonnier - "Louisiana Blues" The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "The Flintstones Meets the President (Meets The Dirty Dozen)"

#blues #r&b #rhythm & blues #rhythm and blues #r & b #jazz #brass band #louisiana #new orleans #music #80s #80s music #80's #80's music #the blues

[scotianostra]

On January 6th 1981, the Scottish author AJ Cronin died in Switzerland.

Archibald Joseph Cronin was born on the 19th July 1896. He attended Dumbarton Academy and later studied medicine at Glasgow University. He became a Royal Navy surgeon and later entered general practice and worked in South Wales and then Harley Street in London.

His work and experiences provided inspiration - most obviously for The Citadel which was at the same time his most commercially successful and his most crusading work. It has been said that its exposure of inequalities in medical provision contributed to the introduction of the National Health Service.

Of course, Cronin is best known - if anyone has heard of him at all! - through the very popular1960s television series Dr Finlay’s Casebook, which was based on one of his books, although he wrote so many fine novels besides on widely different themees.

Cronin]s very first novel, Hatter’s Castle, which he wrote while on holiday in Inveraray for three months in 1931, is a masterpiece and was accepted at once by the only publishing house to which the manuscript had been submitted! The plot revolves around many characters and has many subplots, all of which relate to the life of the hatter, James Brodie, whose narcissism and cruelty gradually destroy his life. (The book was made into a successful film in 1941 starring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, and James Mason.)

A J Cronin died a\on this day in 1981, at the age of 84 in a clinic in the village of Glion, near Montreux, Switzerland, where he had lived for the last 25 years of his life.

#scotland #scottish #gp #doctor #general practitioners #writer #history #literary figure

[sumosumito-blog]

Reposted from @claire.cler_ #bday #mickhucknall #simplyred Michael James Hucknall es el vocalista y principal miembro, a la vez compositor de la banda Simply Red. Mick Hucknall cantó en una banda punk llamada the Frantic Elevators, quienes sacaron cuatro sencillos, todos fracasaron en las listas. Se separaron en 1982 y Hucknall formó un grupo más exitoso, Simply Red, en 1984.  Nacimiento: 8 de junio de 1960 (edad 62 años), Mánchester, Reino Unido Estatura: 1.8 m Cónyuge: Gabriella Wesberry (m. 2010) Hijas: Romy Hucknall Ocupación #vocalista #compositor Grupos musicales: Simply Red (Desde 2015), Faces (Desde 2009) Género(s) #Soul #Jazz #Pop #R&B #newwave #blueeyedsoul #Adultcontemporary Período de actividad 1983-2010 2015-actualidad Discográfica(s) #WarnerMusic #GroupElektra #EastWest #SimplyRed.com Películas: #SimplyRed #Stars Simply Red : Live at Montreux 2003, De-lovely, An Audience with Tom Jones, Quincy Jones: 50 Years in Music: Live at Montreux, Más... Educación: #ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity #TamesideCollege #AudenshawSchool Instrumento #Voz Tipo de voz #Tenorlírico Discográficas #ElektraRecords #EastWestRecords Artistas relacionados Simply Red (1980– 2010, 2015- actualidad ) #manchester #reinounido #franticelevators #faces#RepostClaire (en Bday) https://www.instagram.com/p/CejbtlRpXkm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bday #mickhucknall #simplyred #vocalista #compositor #soul #jazz #pop #r #newwave #blueeyedsoul #adultcontemporary #warnermusic #groupelektra #eastwest #stars #manchestermetropolitanuniversity #tamesidecollege #audenshawschool #voz #tenorlírico #elektrarecords #eastwestrecords #manchester #reinounido #franticelevators #faces #repostclaire