Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Graham Nash
Songs For Beginners
(Atlantic, 1971)
A dark English cloud passes over the Hollywood sun.
The late '60s shift from peace 'n' love to war 'n' hate is generally represented by documents of violence and chaos: Gimme Shelter's grainy soup of gurning Angels or the Qualuude funk fug of There's A Riot Going On. However, for every OD, cudgel and backhander there were a thousand quiet nights of creeping dread: and this is the soundtrack. Written by the former Hollie and CSNY peacekeeper at the start of 1970, as his relationship with Joni Mitchell crumbled, Songs For Beginners is the sound of a gentle soul from Northern England watching the LA lights go out and sighing "I told you so". Steeped in the "solitary sadness" of a wartime childhood, and the hymns and nursery rhymes that soundtracked that melancholy, Nash produced one of the great '60s fin de siècle LPs: songs of change, revolution and hope heavy with an unfathomable foreboding.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 12/01/2010
Further Listening
John Phillips – John, The Wolf King Of LA (Dunhill, 1970)
CSNY – Déjà Vu (Atlantic, 1970)
David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic, 1971)
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I thought you were saying he's died!
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Unglaublich! Das hätte ich gar nicht geglaubt :)
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