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This is the unreleased live album by Legendary American country singer Johnny Cash and it was recorded at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco which was recorded by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley through the Owsley Stanley Foundation and BMG/Renew Records. On the live recording with the Tennessee Three he performed his classic hits including Big River, Ring Of Fire, I Walk The Line as well as 2 Bob Dylan Songs as well as Green Green Grass Home as well as Some of the song performed by his wife June Carter Cash and in the booklet it has essays by John Carter Cash (son of Johnny Cash and June Carter), Bob Weir of the Greatful Dead, Dave Schools from Widespread Panic and the son of Owsley Stanley Starfinder Stanley. It is an FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT live album with great songs which sounds so good and the quality is great to listen to. It is well worth listening too and it came at the time Johnny Cash was getting his life together after going through personal issues as we...

This is the new album by legendary American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and the album was recorded at Belmont Mall Studios in Belmont Indiana. The songs on the album are all original written by John and among the musicians playing on the album was Bruce Springsteen as well as the front cover was painted by Speck Mellencamp son of John. It is an FANTASTIC album with great songs as well as great lyrics and great singing by John who is sounding better than ever on the album. The album went to number 24 in Germany and number 16 in Scotland. He will be doing an show in July in California. This is an must for John Mellencamp fans and I give it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will love it.

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye. It's 1960 and Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) an Christian meets Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) an fellow student which they get married and her mother Rachel(Cherry Jones) disapproves and not as optimistic about her faith as Tammy who wants to help people. They go around the United States spreading the love of God with Jim preaching and Tammy singing as well as doing puppets and it is their preaching leads to the attention of Pat Robertson (Gabriel Olds) from CBN which Jim and Tammy host their TV show as well as Jim hosting the 700 Club. they meet Jerry Falwell(Vincent D'Onofrio) whis an conservative Christian who express an interest working with CBN and Tammy has an disagreement with Jerry which then she and Jim create the network PTL in 1974 as well as their own TV show The PTL show which it's a huge success with Jim encouraging viewers to donate money while Tammy is an succes...

This is the remastered album of the Beatles 1970 album Let It Be which I am reviewing the double CD Edition. The songs on the album were recorded from February 1968, January 1969 and January and April 1970 at Abbey Road and Apple Studio which came at the time when the Beatles were rehearsing at Twickenham for what was going to be an show doing new songs but there was issues including George Harrison leaving temporaily but comes back and did the work at Apple Studios for the remaining of January 1969 along with the filming as the Rooftop Concert on January 30th. The album was not released until 1970 on May 8th which went to number 1 in the USA, UK and Australia and Phil Spector produced it and from the album had hit singles the title track Let It Back and The Long and Winding Road as well as other tracks were the 2 George Harrison songs I me Mine and For You Blue as well as Dig It written by the group and Maggie Mae an tradional song and the rest were Lennon McCartney s...

This is the live CD by legendary Australian rock act Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and these live recordings are from December 1994 in Gladstone, Melbourne , Sawtell and Dee Why which they had never been released until now. In that year 1994 Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were touring Australia for the Lock Up Your Mothers tour as they were promoting the boxed CD set of the recordings from 1969-73 and the line up of the Aztecs was the Sunbury Aztecs members Gil Matthews, Paul Wheeler and Warren Morgan and on this live CD among the songs on it including Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy, CC Rider, Oo Poo Pa Doo, Walkin The Dog, Let's Have A Party, Rock n Roll City an song they had recorded on the Best and Rest Of Lock Up Your Mothers CD which was released that year and many others. It is ROCKIN, AWESOME and BRILLIANT and the songs are just AWESOME and ROCKIN which they sound so great as it holds up very well. It is 15 years next month since the passing of Billy Thorpe bu...

This is the new album by Richard Carpenter which it was recorded at the Nest in Woodland Hills California and he does the piano version of the Carpenters classics including Top Of The World, yesterday Once More, We've Only Just Begun and an medley of 3 of the songs and many others. It is an FANTASTIC CD with FANTASTIC songs with great piano playing by Richard Carpenter who also produced and arranged it which sounds great. It is nearly 39 years since the passing of Karen Carpeneter but the music lives on and Richard does an great job looking after the legacy and also there has been an book which Richard was involved in called Carpenters the Musical Legacy. This is an must for Carpenters fans which I give it 4 stars and it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed.

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie Nightmare Alley. It's 1939 and Stanton"Stan" Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) burns his home after putting an body in the hole in the Mid West and goes to join the carnival arena which he starts helping out and then works with Clarvoyant Zeena(Toni Collette) and her husband Pete(David Strathairn). He has an liking for performer Molly(Rooney Mara) who approaches her for a two person act away from the carnival and when Pete passes away she accepts his offer which they leave the carnival. Two years later they are in New York which Stan successfully reinvents himself as the Great Stanton with Molly as his assistant doing an psychic act for the wealthy and the elite and during one of the shows it gets interrupted by an psychologist Dr Lillian Ritter (Cate Blanchett) who attempts to expose their code system and also he then hatches an scheme to a con an dangerous tycoon Ezra Grindle(Richard Jenkins) with help fro...

On Sunday I went to the Events Cinema in the City to see the movie Spencer. Princess Diana Princess of Wales(Kristen Stewart) whose marriage to Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) is under strain due to his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles and the Royal Family are having Christmas at Sandringham which her sons William and Harry are excited to see her but the rest of the royal family ignores her. She is friendly with the dresser Maggie(Sally Hawkins) and is wanting to do her own thing as well as wanting to visit her old home as well as having dreams about seeing Anne Boleyn second wife of Henry VIII and is aware that her ghost is haunting her and it gets very interesting. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with an FANTASTIC Performance by Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthung, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall, and Sean Harris. It is directed by Pablo Larrain and he also produces it with Maren Ade, Janine Jakowski, Paul Webster, Jonas Dornbach and Juan de Dios Larrain. I think this is one of th...

This is the new album by legendary American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac Lindsey Buckingham which was released in September last year and the album was recorded in his home studio in Los Angeles which he wrote, recorded and produced as the songs except one that was written by Michael Merchant are written by Lindsey including one with Jordan Zadorony and Brad Laner. It is an FANTASTIC album with FANTASTIC songs and great singing by Lindsey who is still sounding great than ever and has done an American tour in September and December last year and will be touring Europe in May this year. This album went to number 25 in the UK and this is an must for Lindsey Buckingham fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans which I give it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed.

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie King Richard. It's Compton California and Richard Williams (Will Smith) is training 2 of his daughters Venus (Saniyya Sydney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) into becoming Tennis players which he has planned it before they were born and coaches them as well working as an nurse and an security guard and sends videotapes to different coaches but no success and then meets Paul Cohen(Tony Goldwyn) who coaches Venus which she goes into the junior championships which she wins them and Serena who is helped by Her mother Brandy(Aunjance Ellis) starts going into junior championships herself which also succeeds and having meet high profile agents Richard pulls them out of the junior circuit entirely which leads to Paul been let go. Richards meets Rick Macci(Jon Bernthal) who coaches Jennifer Caprati who offers them to move the family to Florida and which gets interesting. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with an SUPE...

This is the autobiography of English pop singers Pepsi(Helen) DeMacque and Shirlie Holliman and in this book they talked their upbringings in London, Shirlie's health scare as an child, living in Sussex, Pepsi having being brought up in a West Indian family, performed in a band called Pastiche, how she got the name Pepsi, Shirlie meeting George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley from school, joined up Wham as an dancer and backing singer, Pepsi joined them in 1982 replacing Amanda, touring the world with Wham, becoming an duo after Wham broke up in 1986 with hit singles including Heartache, the passing of George Michael and many othes. It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC, Impressive and very entertaining stories and an FANTASTIC read about being of the music scene in the 80's as well as the London music scene of the time which it is well worth reading. This is an must for 80's music fans and I give it 4 and an half stars which it's in the shops now so do yourselves ...

This is the posthumous autobiography of American heavy metal singer and member of iconic bands Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio Ronnie James Dio and in this book he talks about his upbringing in New York, started playing trumpet at age 6, playing in bands The Vegas Kings, The Rumblers, Ronnie and the Red Caps, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets, Becoming the Electric Elves in 1967 before changing it to Elves, suriving an car accident which killed his best friend, become Elf which lasted until 1974, formed the band Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 which he was on 3 albums until he left in 1975, joining Black Sabbath in 1979 which he was on 3 albums until he left 1982, formed Dio in 1982 who went on to great success, working with the Easybeats, Gene Pitney, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Elton John, Queensryche and many others. It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with SUPERB, Impressive and very entertaining stories and an Fabulous read which is well worth reading . Ronnie was doing his aut...

This is the self titled album by John Fogerty in 1975 which it was his Second solo album and it went to number 78 in the USA, number 52 in Australia and number 27 in Sweden which from that album it had 2 hit singles Rockin All Over The World number 27 in the USA,number 55 in Australia and number 36 in Canada which was covered by British rock band Status Quo 2 years later which became an huge hit for them going to number 3 in the UK and Almost Saturday Night number 78 in the USA. It is now reissued on CD which it does not have any bonus tracks which has the original tracks which besides from the hit singles has covers of the Jackie Wilson single Lonely Teardrops, the Frankie Ford song Sea Cruise and You Rasacal You written by Sam Theard which was a hit for the Mills Brothers(1932),Red Nichols and His Five Pennies(1931), Cab Calloway(1931) and Louis Armstrong(1931) and this album was the last album for John for 10 years until Centerfield in 1985. It is an FANTASTIC album with...

Last night New Years Eve I went to Carina Leagues Club where I saw Kel Timmons and The Motown Groovers which was my first time seeing an show at the club for exactly 12 months since last New Years Eve. I walked down to the club from home, did some writing and drank Coke zero. The show started at 8pm with the band doing jazz instrumentals which I saw an friend from Crossroads named Claire and Ben and saw the fireworks at 9pm which the show continued with Kel doing a few songs including Fly Me To The Moon, Saturday Date and Georgia On My Mind and there was an interval where I had an Coke Zero to drink. Then the second set had the Motown show that included songs by Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and many others and there was some people dancing on the floor and there was the countdown at midnight when they were doing Sunny and I left at 12.15am as Dad picked me up to come home. It was an very good show which everyone had an great time and...