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Remembering Dolores

When You're Gone Cranberries

Another difficult loss from 8 years ago, what is it about January! I wish I had the opportunity to see Dolores O’Riordan with The Cranberries, but it never happened. They had a show scheduled in 2017 with a string orchestra, that I thought would finally be my opportunity, but the

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Remembering David

✩༻*ੈ‧‧‧‧*ੈ༺✭ R.I.P. David Bowie January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016 This was, hands down, the best tribute performance I saw after David passing 10 years ago today! The tribute to me was about David! Bravo Lorde! Well done. I was very disappointed with what was done on the GRAMMYS

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R.I.P. David Bowie January 8, 1947 – January 10, 2016 This is something I put together years ago and decided to modify by using some of my own creativity… my 1983 photo from the Serious Moonlight Tour inside the Blackstar, a recreation of the David Bowie logo from the Young

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Vinyl Etc: Saddest Albums of All Time

Something I came across this morning that made me pause… Discogs posted an article with a list of the Saddest Albums of All Time. These were the most notable entries for me: Pastel Blues – Nina SimoneBlackstar – David BowieBerlin – Lou ReedUnknown Pleasures – Joy DivisionDummy – PortisheadFaith –

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Vinyl Etc: ABC to Zombies

Not sure how long this will take, but I’m going through my entire record collection A to Z, listening to anything I haven’t listened to in the past couple of years, with the intent of seriously downsizing my collection and selling off what I don’t feel the need to have

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Vinyl Etc: Dandelion Dreams

A little something to make your Sunday special… I have loved this piece of music since the first time I ever heard it in 1986. I’ve had it on CD ever since and get much joy out of listening to it every now and then. I recently managed to get

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Remembering Sinéad

So very sad to hear of Sinéad’s passing today, at the oh so young age of 56… regardless of whether you liked her music or not take a listen to this track, in my opinion the most powerful vocal performance she did, I love this song, written by Bono for

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Vinyl Etc: Is It Any Wonder

It’s David Bowie’s birthday January 8th and isn’t this a lovely birthday surprise! It’s been announced that ‘ChangesNowBowie’ will be released on Record Store Day on April 18th, 2020, my birthday!! And beginning today six previously unreleased rarities from David’s archive called “Is It Any Wonder?” will be released in

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