Everybody is talking Davy Jones this week, and rightfully so. Everybody is singing Daydream Believer, myself included, so here it is:
I’m at the age where I first heard of Davy Jones from The Brady Bunch, one of the few shows in the history of TV that was cheesier than The Monkees.
Rest in Peace Davy Jones, gone too young at age 66.
Here’s a new video from, “Mick Jagger’s new band,” Superheavy. What happened to his old band? you ask. Something about Kieth, a book, and the size of Mick’s -ahem -intromittent organ.
Mick’s femme-fatale co-singer in Superheavy is Joss Stone:
In other news, Warrant Singer Jani Lane was found dead yesterday. I’ve always had a soft spot for those 80’s hair band power ballads, and Heaven is one of the best.
RIP Jani Lane ( 1964-2011)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Seasick Steve – You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks:
It turns out I’ve been married for 20 years. Seems strange that someone so young, fit and with such a nice full head of hair could be old enough to be married so long, but I have been. And lady Hespeler, who honestly looks the same as when I met her, how she could be married 20 years is beyond my limited imagination. Where does the time go anyway?
For our anniversary, we are off to Paris for a celebration in style (or a holiday on the cheap – your choice). (**warning: if you are thinking, “oh good, now I can go and rob the Hespeler towers,” think again. I have left an attack mother-in-law behind. Seriously, you want to wait until I get back).
As my anniversary gift, the Lady Hespeler got me a pair of tickets to see Jimmy Buffet when he rolls into Toronto. In honour of Jimmy Buffet and Paris, here is “He Went to Paris.”
I used to sing my daughter to sleep with that song, followed by Tom Cochrane’s Avenue A:
You know, the daughter would love to go to Juilliard (and Paris). Makes you wonder how much they absorb.
It was announced this week that Bob Seger is taking The Silver Bullet Band “on the road again.” Is there a greater song, a greater moment in rock ‘n’ roll than Turn The Page?
I didn’t think so:
Bob Seger, Cool For Cats, Rockin' and Rollin' and Never Forgettin'
Arriving in tepid Toronto this weekend, Robert Plant and The Band of Joy is doing 2 shows at the Sony Center. Here’s his latest video Can’t Buy My Love.
And the first Song off his latest album, my favourite Plant song in years, Angel Dance:
Dec 10, 2007. I was on a great adventure that saw me travel to London and watch a concert that millions wanted to see. The fact it now looks like it was legitimately Led Zeppelin’s last hurrah makes it no more sweeter, but boy it’ll impress the grandkids one day.
Here’s my review of the concert.
Here’s Led Zeppelin, live in London 1979 (a concert I missed by mere hours)
I fancy this, I fancy that,
I wanna be so flash…
And ev’rybody tells me that it’s cool to be a cat
The new feature, Cool For Cats Friday’s is going to offer whatever I have stumbled upon through the week, a song, a video a pinup or whatever. This week, the features title song, Squeeze’s Cool For Cats. And for the Gentlemen
Her name is Abbey Clancy. She is what’s known is Britain as a Presenter, meaning she hosts the TV show “The Fashion Project.” She is herself a model, and a WAG (Wife and Girlfriend of football players), engaged to the Tottenham Hotspur Centre Forward Peter Crouch.
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