A few good times in my life
One more journey through songs that hit the charts and other that are just good.
1957: Buddy Holly
1966: Jr. Walker (I prefer the cover by The Flying Lizards from1979)
1972: Elton John
1978: Meat Loaf
1997: Natalie Imbruglia (not only because she recently said goodbye to the music business)
1966: Spencer David Group
1966: The Beach Boys
1977: Dave Mason
1985: Pet Shop Boys
1965: The Who
1982: Golden Earring
1964: Petula Clark
1970: Gilbert O'Sullivan
1970: Dave Edmunds
1978: Joe Jackson
This week's look back mainly takes us back to the time before punk changed everything, but also includes a Bruce Springsteen track that is one of my favorites of his.
1972: The Hollies
1960: The Shadows
1971: Paul Revere and the Raiders
1973: Elton John
1973: Paul Simon
1978: Bruce Springsteen
1966: The Beach Boys
1975: David Bowie
1979: Talking Heads
1976: Todd Rundgren
Yesterday the sad news arrived that Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. Music lost with Wilson and Sly Stone two fantastic artists in only one week - what a mess. Brian Wilson was the head of the Beach Boys which was famous in the sixties and gave us unforgettable surf songs in the 60's.
As a composer and arranger he was always looking for the perfect pop song and back in time the Beach Boys were competitors with the Beatles. Presumably this competitive pressure led him into drugs and depression, from which he did not emerge for a long time.
His legacy is that he wrote songs with godlike harmonies and songs that are very close to a perfect pop song. No he can sing together with his brothers Dennis and Carl in heaven.
Rest in peace, Brian
