Old school music is cool!

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Where do you go to my lovely?
is about a young girl born in poverty in Naples, Italy, who grows up to become a member of the jet-set. It has been alleged that Peter Sarstedt had in mind movie star Sophia Loren, who was herself bought up in the back streets of Naples.



Initially, his record company were not interested in releasing this as a single: Peter Sarstedt comments in the same publication "They said it has no drums, it is too long and there are only 3 instruments." The label relented and the song topped the UK charts for 6 weeks.


LYRICS.

You talk like Marlene Dietrich
And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire
Your clothes are all made by Balmain
And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair, yes there are.

You live in a fancy apartment
Off the Boulevard of St. Michel
Where you keep your Rolling Stones records
And a friend of Sacha Distel, yes you do.

You go to the embassy parties
Where you talk in Russian and Greek
And the young men who move in your circles
They hang on every word you speak, yes they do.

But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do.

I've seen all your qualifications
You got from the Sorbonne
And the painting you stole from Picasso
Your loveliness goes on and on, yes it does.

When you go on your summer vacation
You go to Juan-les-Pines
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan, on your back and on your legs.

And when the snow falls you're found in St. Moritz
With the others of the jet-set
And you sip your Napoleon Brandy
But you never get your lips wet, no you don't.

But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes I do.

You're in between 20 and 30
A very desirable age
Your body is firm and inviting
But you live on a glittering stage, yes you do, yes you do.

Your name is heard in high places
You know the Aga Khan
He sent you a racehorse for Christmas
And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh ha-ha-ha

They say that when you get married
It'll be to a millionaire
But they don't realize where you came from
And I wonder if they really care, or give a damn

But where do you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
Tell me the thoughts that surround you
I want to look inside your head, yes i do.

I remember the back streets of Naples
Two children begging in rags
Both touched with a burning ambition
To shake off their lowly-borne tags, they try

So look into my face Marie-Claire
And remember just who you are
Then go and forget me forever
But I know you still bear
the scar, deep inside, yes you do

I know where you go to my lovely
When you're alone in your bed
I know the thoughts that surround you
'Cause I can look inside your head.

#petersarstedt

Source
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I can still remember the excitement of walking into the record shop with all the advertising, the sound of ROCK and seeing old friends.
Selecting a record or two and then going to a booth to listen to a new release.
Some record bars served coffee or soft drinks, so that you could spend the whole day there, listening to good music.

I wonder if today's youngsters realise how much they are missing out on.
The record shops selling vinyl in the 60's and 70's was a cultural affair.
The record sleeves were works of art and also gave information on the artists and the songs.

A lot of this gets lost in the digital age where everything is on social media, but with little or no emotion.

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Browsing

ever seen the grooves on a vinyl record? Here it is magnified 1000 x

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What a Beauty! Awesome!



I've always been fascinated by beautiful guitars. I will buy at least 1000 when I win the Lotto.

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How cool is this! A couple from the Woodstock album cover are still together, 46 years later!

I still have the vinyl, but the cover is falling apart.
Really enjoyed the movie (documentary) followed by a 2 day rock festival at Hartleyvale in Cape Town with awesome South African and Zimbabwean bands.
I remember the happy vibe and everyone wanting to emanate the peace and love of Woodstock.

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Woodstock was written by Joni Mitchell for Crosby Stills Nash and Young even though she herself was a no show.

This song is about the famous music festival in 1969. Mitchell was scheduled to perform at the festival, but backed out on the advice of her manager David Geffen, who was concerned that she would miss a scheduled appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young did appear, playing an acoustic set followed by an electric set. They took the stage around 3 a.m. Monday morning - the festival was scheduled to end at midnight, but it ran long, culminating with a legendary Jimi Hendrix set that most people didn't stay to see.

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Aqualung deals with our reaction to the homeless population. Jethro Tull vocalist and flute player Ian Anderson wrote the song and called it "a guilt-ridden song of confusion about how you deal with beggars, the homeless." Elaborating in the 40th anniversary reissue of the album, he said, "It's about our reaction, of guilt, distaste, awkwardness and confusion, all these things that we feel when we're confronted with the reality of the homeless. You see someone who's clearly in desperate need of some help, whether it's a few coins or the contents of your wallet, and you blank them out. The more you live in that business-driven, commercially-driven lifestyle, you can just cease to see them.

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For White Room, Eric Clapton used a wah-wah pedal on his guitar. An idea he got from Jimi Hendrix.
Clapton's solo earned the #2 spot on Guitar World's greatest wah solos of all time in 2015. The #1 spot? Hendrix' "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)."

On their last tour before the band broke up, Cream opened most of their shows with this song. When Cream did a reunion tour in 2005, they played it near the end of the sets.

Clapton refused to play this after leaving Cream until 1985, when Paul Shaffer urged him to play it while he was sitting in with the band on Late Night With David Letterman. That same year, Clapton played it at Live Aid.

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Book Now for the Durban International Blues Festival.

The three day program is scheduled to take place on Friday 9th September, Saturday 10th September and conclude on Sunday 11th September, where musicians take to the stage at 7.30 pm every evening. Duncan Parks has been on the circuit for a while but is performing a solo acoustic act at the Blues Festival for the first time. Super bluesman Seb Goldswain has a new trio of bluesmen and promises something incredibly special as only this young Durban star can.

Other bands include top notch Red Hand Blues Band, Raoul and Black Friday, Bobby and the Dynamites, The Sinners, The East Coast Blues Band and The Reals who perform with support artists and instrumentalists throughout the program.

Please buy your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment Tickets are R150 per person per show and from Computicket Outlets. The Season Ticket this year will be R330 for all three nights Tickets go on sale from 01 AUGUST 2016 Save.

http://www.durbanbluesfestival.co.za/

[Thato89]

Old is Gold!! Maybe I am wrong, but I feel like most of the music we listen to today is just BS. Either it's a good melody with shit lyrics, or OK lyrics with a horrible melody. Never a combination of the two, like it used to be in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Do you agree?