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The Feelies - The Good Earth
Good-natured powerpop gets two-thumbs-up from MOJO messageboarder.
9:37 AM GMT 12/11/2008
Can the real Eleanor Rigby please step forward?
42 years after Sir Paul McCartney penned his string-laden ode to the mysterious ER, the former Beatle has revealed a 1911 payroll log from Liverpool's City Hospital that identifies a scullery maid as one E. Rigby. The document (view it here) is to be put up for auction at the Idea Generation Gallery in London on November 27. It was originally sent to Annie Mawson, founder of the Sunbeams Music Trust, in 1990 after she wrote to McCartney asking for a donation to help teach music to children with autism.
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A movie charting the early life of Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia has been given the green light, according to news published in The Hollywood Reporter. The film will focus on the hirsute guitarist's life in San Francisco's Bay Area before he joined his future Dead alumni in the hippie enclave of Haight-Ashbury. Producers have already acquired the rights to Robert Greenfield’s Garcia biography Dark Star.
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Well done unrelenting anthem-heads Journey. Don't Stop Believin', the '80s stadium stars' 1981 paean to "Streetlight people / Living just to find emotion", has become the biggest-selling song to be downloaded from any digital platform, reaching sales in excess of 2 million since it first appeared in 2003. And here it is!
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Antony and the Johnsons' new album, The Crying Light, will be released on January 19. 2009. The follow-up to 2005's Mercury Prize-winning I Am A Bird Now will be preceded by a single, Another World.
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And finally...Happy Birthday Neil Young! Here he is in 1971 with Don't Let It Bring You Down:
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:37 AM GMT 12/11/2008
2009 award winners signed Gibson guitar and Ford Transit art up for auction!
10:05 AM GMT 02/07/2009
Read MOJO's Dylan rundown and contribute your own list here!
4:12 PM GMT 30/06/2009
Jackson ticket refunds! Flaming Lips: UK tour! Blur: live album on the way!
10:26 AM GMT 30/06/2009
Blur pull their fat out of the fire. Art Brut come good. Danny Eccleston waves his flag.
4:37 PM GMT 29/06/2009
Watch Macca join Young for a finale of A Day In The Life!
10:22 AM GMT 29/06/2009
Danny Eccleston was going to write about some other bands. Then he saw Bruce Springsteen.
12:45 PM GMT 28/06/2009
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Re Journey: go read Pete Frame's comments on this godawful band in his Journey family tree. He sums all up there.
It just proves that there are at least 2 million stupid people in the world!
Posted by Simon F at 1:36 PM GMT 12/11/2008 Report Abuse
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I just laugh a little inside every time I meet some girl who says one of her favorite bands is Journey.
When it's a guy, I just can't say anything. He can't be helped.
Also, eager for some more Antony. He reminds me of someone I used to sing with in high school.
Posted by Bennett Billard at 8:14 PM GMT 13/11/2008 Report Abuse
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