SONDAR records

Eric met Gloria at Halifax Town Hall. Two years younger than him, only sixteen, he thought she was gorgeous. Three years later they married.

"A few years after that, Gloria told me: you don't say 'I love you' much any…

"Down beside the village green
Every year we lay a wreath
For the local men who went to fight
But never made it home

They were heroes every one
Fathers, lovers, brothers, sons
Their memories will outlast the names
We…

"Well, I need someone to hold me
But I'll wait for somethin' more….."

George Michael had escaped from the image of Wham, with which he'd become disillusioned and depressed. Now, full of confidence and enthusiasm, he was eager to create…

“Are you going? Are you going to the tea party?”

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were always their own type of party. In the mid Seventies they were the number one live draw, with a highly theatrical stage show. Yes…

“Hey, dig those crazy guitars daddio!”

Have you ever seen any of those low budget 60's B-movies cashing in on the teen craze? They usually had a lead actor in his late forties sucking in his stomach and trying valiantly…

"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay…."

When I first heard this song it was like nothing else in the charts. The sound is…

A mere three weeks after the Get Back sessions The Beatles were back in the studio. The concentrated jamming and recording together had got them musically tight, and they'd experimented with combining unfinished songs, fusing Paul's ‘I’ve got a feeling'…

"And I thought to myself, why waste my tears
On you or anyone else..."

Ah, the breakup song. Someone must have made a scientific analysis but I'm not going to search for statistics. I can say with confidence it's high…

Every so often I read about musicians discovering music as children - wow, what a precocious bunch they are. Did you nod your head to Miles Davis and Stockhausen in the nursery? Maybe you sneaked discs from an elder sibling's…

"Oh, fortune and fame's such a curious game
Perfect strangers can call you by name
And pay good money to hear "Fire And Rain"
Again and again and again"

James Taylor - 'That's why I'm here'

I love…

"Neither music, nor life, should be a lonely journey.
And if it is, the journey can change".

These words greet you on the homepage of David Fee's website (www.feetunes.com). A fine sentiment, beautifully expressed. Typical David.

‘All aboard’…

You know, sometimes songs just go off into the world and do their own thing. 

I remember the first time I played this, enjoying the sunshine with friends in a Bristol park. Just me and an acoustic guitar, the song…