Slade – Still the Same (The Tom O’Connor Roadshow, 1987)
Best Oldies Songs A Defiant Promise That Time Cannot Erase Who We Are When Slade released “Still the Same” in February 1987, the single was intended to introduce their fourteenth and final studio…
Don Williams – Spinning Around (Visualizer)- from EPILOGUE: THE CELLAR TAPES
A Song Adrift Between Memory and Motion, Where Love Turns Like an Endless Wheel When Don Williams returned in spirit through Epilogue: The Cellar Tapes, the posthumous collection released in…
Slade – Darlin Be Home Soon
A song about longing that turns a crowded room into something heartbreakingly intimate. When Slade released “Darlin’ Be Home Soon” on their landmark live album Slade Alive! in 1972, they…
Roy Orbison – California Blue (Studio Demo – 2014)
A man already slipping into legend sings one last postcard home from the edge of longing. When Roy Orbison recorded “California Blue”, he was not simply revisiting the themes that…
Brian Connolly – Lady (unreleased)
A Lost Love Song Floating Through the Ruins of Glamour and Time There are songs that arrive with fanfare, chart positions, and glossy sleeve notes, and then there are songs…
Sweet – 05. Mick Tucker Drum Solo (Live at the Marquee, London 1986)
A Thunderous Heartbeat That Defined an Era of Glam Rock When Sweet took the stage at London’s legendary Marquee Club in 1986, the band was carrying the weight of a…
Roy Orbison – You’ll Never Walk Alone (Lyric Video)
A Hymn of Endurance Sung by a Man Who Knew Devastation Better Than Most When Roy Orbison recorded “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” he was not chasing the charts that had…
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson – “Okie from Muskogee”
A Small-Town Anthem That Became America’s Most Misunderstood Mirror When Merle Haggard first released “Okie from Muskogee” in 1969, the song climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country…
“Brian Connolly” of The Sweet – Arguably the greatest lead vocalist of all time in rock band history
A Voice That Turned Glam Rock’s Glitter Into Human Heartbreak Before the mythology hardened around The Sweet as glam rock’s riotous architects of noise and decadence, there was the voice…
Sweet – “The Man With The Golden Arm”, Musikladen 11.11.1974 (OFFICIAL)
A Glam-Rock Spectacle Hiding the Loneliness of a Man Addicted to Illusion When Sweet stormed onto the stage of Germany’s legendary Musikladen on November 11, 1974, performing “The Man With…