“Sweet” Brian Connolly – Steve Priest show
A Voice from Glam Rock’s Golden Ruins Still Searching for One More Night of Applause By the time Brian Connolly and Steve Priest stood together again to perform songs associated…
A Voice from Glam Rock’s Golden Ruins Still Searching for One More Night of Applause By the time Brian Connolly and Steve Priest stood together again to perform songs associated…
A BAND ON THE EDGE OF REINVENTION TURNED GLAMOUR INTO SOMETHING FAR DARKER AND FAR MORE DANGEROUS When Sweet stepped onto the stage of Germany’s legendary television program Musikladen on…
A Song About Devotion That Refused to Sound Fashionable, Even in the Middle of the Glam Era When The Osmonds performed “The Proud One” on British television during their 1975…
A Voice Suspended Between Sleep and Heartbreak When Roy Orbison performed “In Dreams”, he was not merely revisiting one of the defining recordings of his career. He was stepping back…
A Forgotten Rockabilly Firestorm Reborn Under the Spotlight of Memory When Roy Orbison stormed into “Go! Go! Go! (Down the Line)” during the televised celebration of Black & White Night…
A Song About Longing So Deep It Turns Memory Into Geography When Roy Orbison first released “Blue Bayou” in 1963, the song quietly drifted into the world as the B…
A Song About Distance That Had Nothing to Do With Miles When Slade released “Far Far Away” in 1974 as the lead single from the album Slade in Flame, the…
A Glam Rock Warning Shot Wrapped in Seduction, Defiance, and Pure Velocity When Sweet unleashed “No You Don’t” in 1974 from the album Desolation Boulevard, the band was already standing…
A Record Built Not on Reinvention, but on the Warm Echo of Survival Released in the Netherlands through the Artone label as PAP 241, The Best Of Fats Domino arrived…
When Two Lonely Voices Turn Heartbreak Into Something Almost Sacred By the time Roy Orbison appeared beside k.d. lang for their 1988 performance of “Crying” on Top of the Pops,…