Sunday, June 18, 2006

Music on a Sunday



A hopefully eclectic mix of live music videos and promos from times past.

I may make this an occasional feature. I may not. Have to see how it goes.

Seeing as today is Sir Macca's 64th birthday, I'll start off with a few Paul McCartney performances. The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles, from the film Let It Be, (RIP John, George and Billy Preston), Let It Be from Live Aid, All You Need Is Love at something to do with the Queen. And hey, I've got to include this, from the animated film Yellow Submarine, When I'm Sixty-Four.

Canvey Island's finest, Dr Feelgood with Roxette, featuring Wilko Johnson on guitar and the late Lee Brilleaux on vocals and harmonica from The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975.

Former Fairground Attraction singer Eddi Reader with Dear John written by the late Kirsty MacColl and Mark E. Nevin from her self-titled 1994 album.

The aforementioned, sadly departed Kirsty MacColl with Mambo de la Luna.

From the 1985 album Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, The Pogues with Dirty Old Town, written by the late Ewan MacColl, father of the late Kirsty.

The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan is still alive, although he really looks like crap these days. Much worse than in this.

A live version of Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush featuring Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd on guitar, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush with Don't Give Up and a fine live performance by Peter Gabriel with In Your Eyes.

Genesis, featuring Peter Gabriel on vocals from 1973, with a live version of Supper's Ready. This goes on for nearly 27 minutes.

Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry with Seven Seconds. There's a live performance here.

William Shatner, Joe Jackson and Ben Folds performing Pulp's Common People. Heh heh!

Coventry Two Toner's The Specials with A Message To You Rudy. I met singer Terry Hall in a nightclub once. He ignored me.

Oh, and here's some poetry, John Cooper Clarke with Health Fanatic. I met him in a club once as well. He was incapable of talking at the time. That is English he's speaking, incidentally.

Jilted John by Jilted John. These days he's better known as John Shuttleworth, here he is performing Catch The Fox.

Got to include some Robert Nesta Marley, so here's an early version of Bob Marley and the Wailers with Stir it Up, from a small rehearsal studio in Kingston, Forever Loving Jah. And of course, Redemption Song.

Finally, a couple of memorable performances by the late Glaswegian Alex Harvey, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band with Delilah, (you don't get choreography like this these days), and a wonderfully manic rendition of Au Suivant, written by Belgian author-composer Jacques Brel, about the loss of virginity in a mobile army brothel, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band with Next.

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