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Living To Music – Portishead ‘Dummy’

by on 27. Mar, 2012 in CD’s / Digital, Hear, Living To Music, Records, The Nineties

This Sunday (April 1st) at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate. Portishead are part of a Bristolian bass lineage that also includes Massive Attack, Tricky, The Wild Bunch and Smith & Mighty, who, between them, stirred up groove cauldrons of Hip Hop, Funk, Electro, Soul, Jazz, Dub and Lovers Rock, with a pinch of Punk thrown in for good measure, distilling a unique British flavour that could only have come from this city.

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Living To Music – Fleetwood Mac ‘Rumours’

by on 27. Feb, 2012 in CD’s / Digital, General, Hear, Living To Music, The Seventies

I originally became aware of Fleetwood Mac via their chart topping single 'Albatros' (1969), an almost ambient instrumental opus that had your senses surfing on an ethereal wave of sound - band founder Peter Green's hauntingly understated guitar a joy to behold.

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Living To Music – Paul Simon ‘Graceland’

by on 31. Jan, 2012 in CD’s / Digital, Documentaries, Hear, Living To Music, Records, The Eighties, Video

Since scaling the dizzy heights between 1965-1970, with partner in harmony Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon’s solo career, despite a strong start, had gradually stalled from the mid-70’s onward and, by the 80’s he was pretty much regarded as a name from the past who, like other names from the past, continued to release LP’s that no longer caught the public’s interest. His album prior to ‘Graceland’, 1983’s ‘Hearts And Bones’, was considered a commercial flop (although it would receive retrospective critical acclaim) and, with the weight of failure on his shoulders, it looked like his best work was well behind him.

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Living To Music – The Stone Roses ‘The Stone Roses’

by on 21. Dec, 2011 in Art & Design, CD’s / Digital, DJ / Club Culture, DJ Appearances, Hear, Living To Music, Manchester, Merseyside, Photography, Psychedelia, Records, The Beatles, The Eighties, The Nineties

As we enter 2012 I thought this would be the ideal Living To Music choice to kick off the year, especially given that the first Sunday in January is also the first day of a new year. This highly acclaimed and much-loved 1989 LP, which perfectly caught the mood of the times, provides us with the opportunity to re-visit the past, whilst looking ahead to the summer. When an announcement was made earlier this year, that The Stone Roses are to re-form for 2 shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park in June 2012 (with a 3rd later added), there was genuine intrigue and anticipation. This wasn’t a case of another comeback cash-in, but something more symbolic. If ever there was a band with unfinished business to accomplish, it’s The Stone Roses.

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Living To Music – Michael Jackson ‘Off The Wall’

by on 29. Nov, 2011 in Black Culture, CD’s / Digital, General, Hear, Living To Music, Records, The Seventies

This Sunday (Dec 4th), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate. Full lowdown here:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2010/06/living-to-music/

Even though it's almost two and a half years since his death in June 2009, Michael Jackson remains ever-newsworthy. Only recently, the trial of the physician who administered the drugs that killed him, Dr Conrad Murray, came to a conclusion with Murray convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

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Living To Music – Nirvana ‘Nevermind’

by on 26. Sep, 2011 in CD’s / Digital, Hear, Living To Music, Photography, Records, The Nineties

This Sunday (Oct 2nd), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate. Full lowdown here:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2010/06/living-to-music/

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Living To Music – James Brown ‘Live At The Apollo’

by on 30. Aug, 2011 in Black Culture, CD’s / Digital, Hear, Living To Music, Records, The Sixties

The oldest Living To Music inclusion to date, recorded on October 24th 1962, before Martin Luther King made his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, before JFK was assassinated, before Dylan released ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, and just as The Beatles had started out on their recording career (their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, released just a few weeks earlier). In a modern context, this is ancient history, yet its influence is still felt today, even if people don’t realise the full gravity of Brown’s legacy.

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Living To Music – Amy Winehouse ‘Back To Black’

by on 02. Aug, 2011 in CD’s / Digital, Hear, Living To Music, Records

This Sunday (August 7th), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate.

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Living To Music – Bob Marley & The Wailers ‘Exodus’

by on 01. Jun, 2011 in Black Culture, CD’s / Digital, Hear, Living To Music, Records, The Seventies

This Sunday (June 5th), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate.

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