Here’s another group that I loved before I even knew who they were. By the time I was in junior high, the group had morphed into Starship and taken over Top 40 radio with songs like the much-maligned (I love it) “We Built This City”, “Sara”, and, oh yeah, the theme song to Mannequin starring one Kim Cattrall. (Give her a break. She was young and she needed the money.) But […]
And here’s the guy John Farnham replaced – Glenn Shorrock – leading the Little River Band in their great 1979 hit “Lady” from their breakthrough Sleeper Catcher album. Little River Band was sort of Australia’s version of the Eagles. They were one of the first bands I ever loved – and I loved their music before I even knew who they were. Songs like “Lady”, “Reminiscing”, and “Lonesome Loser” (with its fantastic […]
Phil Collins has posted a video for his take on the 1963 Martha and the Vandellas classic “Heat Wave”. It’s from Going Back, his forthcoming collection of Motown and other 60s pop and soul covers which finds him backed by a very large band which includes former members of Motown’s iconic house band the Funk Brothers, a couple of longtime Genesis associates, and a herd of back-up singers, who all appear to be having […]