I feared for Aimee Mann. She was the lead singer, bass player and chief selling point of ‘Til Tuesday, a band which was, in the mid-1980s, the Next Big Thing. Until, suddenly, it wasn’t. Another casualty of the star machine? ‘Til Tuesday was a Boston synth-pop outfit with a hint of punk, which burst onto […]
Tag: Epic (label)
Oh dear. There were some unfortunate fashions in the 1980s. Maybe it’s because I was there at the time, but when I see a picture like this, I shrink inside. This is Ricky Skaggs, one of the greats of country music, on the back of his 1985 LP, Live in London. That’s Westminster Bridge in […]
Stage names are funny things. Sometimes a white sandwich loaf is re-labelled as a baguette, or pane de casa, or Tibetan mountain bread. And sometimes horiatiko psomi is re-labelled as … white sandwich loaf. This is pretty much what happened to Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. Born in London of Greek heritage, he became known to the […]
Planet Vinyl 