by Jon Kutner | Mar 2, 2025 | YouTube clip of the week
The Kooks were formed in Brighton in 2004 and took their name from the title of a David Bowie song on his Hunky Dory album. The band comprised lead singer and guitarist Luke Pritchard, guitarist Hugh Harris, bass player Max Raffery and drummer Paul Garred. In 2008,...
by Jon Kutner | Feb 23, 2025 | YouTube clip of the week
Howard Jones is celebrating his 70th birthday this week. He was born in Southampton and spent some of his teen years in Canada. His career began in 1981 and after a support slot for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark he was signed to Warner Brothers records and had...
by Jon Kutner | Feb 16, 2025 | YouTube clip of the week
Lee Evans was, without doubt, one of the UK’s finest, funniest and energetic comedians and I’ve seen him live four times. What you’re about to watch is fascinating for its accuracy, I know, I saw him do it on...
by Jon Kutner | Feb 9, 2025 | YouTube clip of the week
It was 60 years ago this week that the world said goodbye to the great Nat King Cole. Nat was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Alabama in 1919 and began his career as a jazz pianist in the late 1930s when he formed the Nat Cole Trio and his first hit, Sweet Lorraine,...
by Jon Kutner | Feb 2, 2025 | YouTube clip of the week
Bob Nesta Marley was born in Nine Miles, Jamaica and would have been 80 years old this week. As a teenager he worked as a welder alongside another reggae singer, Desmond Dekker. Dekker auditioned for the legendary producer Leslie Kong with one of his own songs, Honour...
by Jon Kutner | Jan 26, 2025 | YouTube clip of the week
It was 10 years ago this week that Louise Lopez from Odyssey passed away. They formed in the mid-70s as the Lopez Sisters, three of them, Louise, Lillian and Carmen but Carmen left about a year before the band became famous, she was replaced by the Filipino bassist...
