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CD PICK’S OF THE MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2015 THIS MONTH'S FAB FOUR…
PRETENDERS BOX SET. (EDSEL)
USA /UK rock band The Pretenders burst onto the music scene in 1979, firstly with two minor hits, Stop Your Sobbing and Kid, then later that year they topped the British singles charts with Brass In Pocket. More successes followed during the Eighties and Nineties, including Message Of Love, I Go To Sleep, Back On The Chain Gang, 2000 Miles,Don't Get Me Wrong, Hymn To Her and I'll Stand By You. Lead singer Chrissie Hynde, from Akron, Ohio, had a child with Kinks' leader Ray Davies before marrying Simple Minds' lead singer Jim Kerr, but they later divorced . The rest of the band members were from England. The drummer was Martin Chambers. Original guitarist James Honeyman-Smith died in 1982 from a drug overdose and original bass player Pete Farndon suffered the same fate in 1983. This superb box set contains the albums Pretenders, Pretenders 2, Learning To Crawl, Get Close, Packed, Last Of The Independents, The Isle Of View and Viva El Amor. With bonus tracks, B sides, demos, live recordings, videos and TV appearances this package contains in all a massive total of 14 CD's and 8 DVD's.
PAUL RODGERS AND FRIENDS. LIVE AT MONTREUX (EAGLE)
In 1994, Paul Rodgers, former frontman of Free and Bad Company, released his Muddy Water Blues album. To help promote this, he appeared at the world famous Montreux Festival in Switzerland on July 4, 1994. Musicians sharing the stage with him that evening included guitarists Brian May, Steve Lukather and Neil Schon, harmonica player Claude Nobs and drummer Jason Bonham (son of my old friend and Led Zeppelin drummer, the late, great John Bonham ). With a track listing of classic songs from Paul Rodgers' career, this CD and DVD make for great listening and viewing. Standout tracks include Free and Bad Company favourites Wishing Well, Fire And Water, A Little Bit Of Love, Feel Like Making Love, Can't Get Enough Of Your Love and All Right Now, plus driving renditions of blues favourites Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Crossroads and Hoochie Coochie Man.
DAVID COURTNEY ANTHOLOGY (ANGEL AIR)
Although hardly a household name, David Courtney has had a highly successful career as a songwriter and producer. He started out as drummer with Adam Faith's backing group The Roulettes in the early Sixties. Then in the Seventies he went on to discover Leo Sayer, co-writing and co-producing many of his hits, including The Show Must Go On, One Man Band and Long Tall
Glasses.Those three songs are amongst the 37 tracks on this double CD collection. Other highlights include Giving It All Away by Roger Daltrey, Midnight Child by Roger Chapman, In My Life by Maggie Bell, The Dancer by Smokie, Rag And Bone by Steve Ellis, Shooting Star by Dollar, The Easy Way Out by Marina Kapura, Magic Touch by Odyssey, Back On The Road by Joe Egan and Squeezebox by Roger Daltrey and Adam Faith.
LESLEY GORE. CALIFORNIA NIGHTS. (ACE)
Lesley Gore was born on May 2, 1946 in New York City and raised in Tenafly, New Jersey. She was discovered by producer Quincy Jones, while singing at a hotel bar in Manhattan. She absolutely exploded on to the American music scene in 1963 with the chart-topping It's My Party, followed by three top five hits – Judy's Turn To Cry, She's A Fool and You Don't Own Me. This album, California Nights, from 1967, now on CD for the first time, is considered to be her best and includes 15 bonus tracks. Lesley Gore sadly died earlier this year, aged 68.
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