Born in 1949 in Freeholden, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen grew up among the working class heroes who would go on to populate many of his songs. He learned to play guitar in garage and blues outfits, taking his inspiration from Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and The Beatles. By the time of his 1973 debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, he’d already forged his own unique identity.
Though he spent time playing the New York City folk circuit in the early ’70’s, Springsteen’s true home was the lonesome back streets and industrialized wasteland of New Jersey. Girding himself with some of his closest musical compatriots (dubbed the E Street Band after a location in Belmar, New Jersey), he caught the attention of Columbia Records and had his first deal by 1972. His first album immediately established him as a social commentator on the order of Bob Dylan.
James Blunt is one of the brilliant UK musicians, who make interest music. It’s probably no exaggeration to say that James Blunt has been the biggest and most unexpected surprise success of the last five years in music. Blunt was born in in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 and educated at Elstree School, Woolhampton, then Harrow School (where he received his nickname ‘Blunty’), Bristol University, and finally the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Blunt’s father was in the British Army Air Corps, and his family has a long history of military service. The Blunt family is also known for the restoration of Cley windmill. Now James Blunt is a British musician whose debut album, Back To Bedlam, and single releases especially number one hit You’re Beautiful
Ya, my friends. It’s a brilliant single that unfortunately just isn’t getting any big publicity. ‘She’s Madonna’, the third single from his Rudebox debacle, is better than the tabloid press would have you believe. Over a gurgling electro backing from the Pet Shop Boys, Robbie suppresses his usual self-indulgent whining to reveal an acute fascination with the Queen of Pop - “We’re having drinks with Kate and Stella, Gwyneth’s here and she’s brought her fella” suggests someone’s a fan of the 3am girls. Anyway this is brilliant. Absolutely sodding brilliant. Stop sniggering at the back. Apparently inspired by Guy Richie’s brilliant dumping of a former girlfriend (”I love you baby, but face it, she’s Madonna”, a line that forms the chorus) this is a slab of absolute deep-fried electro gold, as camp as a row of tents, barking mad (there’s even a Japanese spoken word section!) and with a strange feeling of wide-eyed beauty pouring out of every one of Robbie William’s (allegedly) gak-incrusted pores.
Hopefully, this will inspire a public reappraisal of Robbie’s absolutely fucking ace ‘Rudebox’ album, which will lift it into the pantheon of the great unappreciated albums.
A couple o words concerning Scorpions album Live At Wacken I want to say. I can open a little secret: I’m a fun of Scorpions since childhood and all their new and old singles I eat with pleasure. I bought this album a few years ago and want say that listen it time at a time. I can’t say that I love hard rock so mush: no, hard rock is dead (sorry all hard rock amateurs, excluding Rammstein, thay are really dinosaurs). But hard rock as I music genre is not popular: The majority of hard-rock artists are migrated to most popular area: pop-rock, pop, R&B (ooh, what the shit is). Anyway concerning Scorpions: they exist so much time and their migrations don’t look like as treason of hard-rock style, no: I think it’s an experiment and very successful experiment. As for me I listen their album Live At Wacken with great pleasures: Why? First, it’s big. It contains 28 tracks and all of them come from different periods. Klaus Meine is really great singer: His voice sounds splendidly for ages. I found great hit ‘In Trance’. Ya, it was released in far 1975: It’s really hard rock single. And then I hear sweet ballade ‘The Zoo’ (just a joke), or their awesome ‘Guitar solo’. My friends, Scorpions it’s music for all ages and all people who can appreciate a real art. And album Live At Wacken is on of the best Scorpions albums.
All Live At Wacken tracks:
1 (Intro)-Coming Home 3:31
2 Bad boys running wild 5:07
3 The Zoo 6:23
4 Loving you Sunday morning 3:54
5 Make it real 5:20
6 Pictured life 3:10
7 SpeedyOs coming 4:03
8 Dark lady 6:01
9 We burn the sky 8:32
10 Love’em or leave’em 4:30
11 Don’t believe her 4:57
12 Tease me please me 5:29
13 Coast to coast 6:29
14 Holiday 6:45
15 Lovedrive 5:11
16 Another piece of meat 3:54
17 (Drum solo) 7:49
18 Blackout 4:37
19 No one like you 4:47
20 (Guitar solo) 3:42
21 Big City Nights 5:49
22 CanOt get enough 7:01
23 Still loving you 7:22
24 In Trance 5:06
25 HeOs a woman, sheOs a man 5:57
26 In search of the peace of mind 9:49
27 Dynamite 8:36
28 Rock you like a hurricane 8:52