Dead Cool - Tuesdays Nights Late At The Pavilion (2 Viewers)

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - July 28

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

nice crowd in tonight, in the mood for dancing for the last hour

No Rain - Blind Melon
Stranger In My Own Home Town - Elvis Presley
Here Comes The Rooster - Alice In Chains
Yamamoto Kakapote - Yamasuki
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Play It All Night Long - Warren Zevon
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Rag Mama Rag [Live] - Little Feat
Lawyers, Guns And Money - Warren Zevon
Living in America - James Brown
Innuendo - Queen
She's a Mystery to Me - Roy Orbison
Emerald - Thin Lizzy
Folsom Prison Blues [Live] - Johnny Cash
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Crest Of A Wave - Rory Gallagher
Rock The Casbah - The Clash
Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
Ain't Got No/I Got Life - Nina Simone
Harlem Shuffle - Sam & Dave
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Burning Love - Elvis Presley
I Want It All - Queen
Respectable - Mel & Kim
Big Ten Inch - Bullmoose Jackson
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
California Love - Tupac, Dr Dre
Hypnotize - The Notorious B.I.G.
I Feel Good - James Brown
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - Blues Brothers
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance) - The Contours
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy
Fever - Peggy Lee
Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
One Love - Bob Marley
Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners
Justified And Ancient - KLF
Under Pressure - Queen And David Bowie
Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Aug 4

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people
barr one person who most people don't know is still alive

Aug 4 - Dead Cool @ Pavilion

Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley
B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas
As Long As I've Got You - The Charmels
Four - Miles Davis
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - John Martyn
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
Streets Of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
The Weight - The Band (With The Staple Singers)
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) - Benny Hill
The Very Thought Of You - Al Bowlly
Lili Marlene - Marlene Dietrich
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Rock With You - Michael Jackson
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Built for Comfort - Howlin' Wolf
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Hold On, I'm Coming - Sam & Dave
An American Trilogy - Elvis Presley
A New England - Kirsty MacColl
You Got It - Roy Orbison
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Listen Like Thieves - INXS
How Can I Be Sure - Dusty Springfield
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains
Thunder And Lightning - Thin Lizzy
Love Her Madly - The Doors
Mannish Boy - The Band (With Muddy Waters & Paul Butterfield)
One Rainy Wish - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Don't Want to Know - John Martyn
Everyday - Buddy Holly
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - The Mamas And The Papas
Let's Twist Again - Big Bopper
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - Blues Brothers
Help! - The Beatles
Heyday - Mic Christoper
Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash
Woman - John Lennon
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
I Just Want To Make Love To You - Etta James
What A Wonderful World This Would Be - Sam Cooke
They Don't Care About Us - Michael Jackson
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Waltz #2 - Elliot Smith
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Aug 11

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

great craic last night, last dead cool before the new premiership season. wahey!

Straight To Hell - The Clash
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Nina Simone
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Johnny Cash
No Rain - Blind Melon
McArthur Park - Richard Harris
Yesterday Once More - The Carpenters
River Song - Dennis Wilson
Woman - John Lennon
Calling Card - Rory Gallagher
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Tupelo Honey - Dusty Springfield
Our Mother The Mountain - Townes Van Zandt
Waltz #2 - Elliot Smith
I've Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
Cello Song - Nick Drake
Here Comes The Nice - The Small Faces
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
That's Life - Frank Sinatra
Let's Face The Music And Dance - Nat King Cole
Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Bad Penny - Rory Gallagher
Lawyers, Guns And Money - Warren Zevon
Riders on the Storm - The Doors
Waitin' Around To Die - Townes Van Zandt
Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong
Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin
Children Of The Revolution - Marc Bolan & T.Rex
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Runaway - Del Shannon
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - Blues Brothers
You Got It - Roy Orbison
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - The Carpenters
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys
Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Bulfrog Blues - Rory Gallagher
Somebody To Love - Queen
I Put a Spell On You - Screamin Jay Hawkins
Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters
Imagine - John Lennon

 

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Dead Cool - Aug 11 2009 - Mink Deville and Les Paul R.I.P.

two recent "additions" to the night

1st obit taken from the guardian, 2nd from NY Times

1)
Willy DeVille

Singer and songwriter whose creativity and influence outgrew the New York punk scene

The New York Times wrote of DeVille: "He embodies [New York's] tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that's both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original."

Willy DeVille resembled no other rock musician of his era. DeVille, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 58, achieved prominence as a contemporary of the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie and Talking Heads when they all played exclusively at the New York rock club CBGBs. But while his fellow musicians have all been venerated around the English-speaking world, DeVille would only find lasting commercial and critical success across continental Europe. If his contemporaries achieved greater fame and fortune, DeVille outlasted them as a creative force, issuing a remarkable series of albums over the past decade.

Born William Borsay in Stamford, Connecticut, DeVille grew up in a blue-collar household and left school aged 14, immediately settling in New York City, where he worked in various menial jobs and attended local blues and folk clubs. By the late 1960s he was confident enough of his singing, guitar-playing and songwriting to attempt to get a record deal. Feeling out of place in a US music scene dominated by psychedelic guitarists, he shifted to London in 1970, but remained unable to find anyone interested in his music.

Returning to New York, he bought a truck and began travelling around the US, working and looking for like-minded musicians. Settling in San Francisco, he formed Mink DeVille, changing his own surname to DeVille in 1974. By 1975 he had convinced the other band members to move to New York.

Quickly installed as the house band at the decrepit Manhattan club CBGBs, Mink DeVille found themselves at the centre of what would soon be known as punk rock. That Mink DeVille's musical references were far wider than any of the other bands – their songs mixed blues and soul, Mexican and Cajun, doo-wop and Latin musical flavours – marked them out. What DeVille shared with his contemporaries was an aggressive persona and an addiction to heroin.

Mink DeVille signed to Capitol Records and, produced by Jack Nitzsche – the arranger and producer who had shaped the finest recordings of Phil Spector and Neil Young – their debut album, Cabretta, was released in the summer of 1977. Cabretta received excellent reviews, while the single Spanish Stroll became a top 20 hit in the UK. DeVille was flown to London to meet the press and immediately things got off to a bad start, when the singer angrily confronted journalists who had upset him by classifying him as a "punk rocker". His combative approach with the media was made worse by his wife, Toots, who shadowed him and would threaten anyone she took against.

The 1978 album Return to Magenta expanded DeVille's audience. The singer then decamped to Paris to record his third album, Le Chat Bleu. Le Chat Bleu's lush romanticism was underpinned by some DeVille songs written with Doc Pomus, previously a lyricist for Elvis Presley and the Drifters. In the US, Capitol refused to issue the record, claiming its strings and accordions were "uncommercial", and only relenting after strong import sales and Rolling Stone championing it as one of the best albums of 1980. That year, the New York Times wrote of DeVille: "He embodies [New York's] tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that's both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original."

DeVille signed to Atlantic Records, but his two albums for the label were both pedestrian, heroin addiction having reduced him to a skeletal figure, and atrophied his talent. He dropped the Mink DeVille name in favour of Willy DeVille, and his 1987 album Miracle was produced by the Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler. Knopfler was also working on the soundtrack for the film The Princess Bride and included DeVille's song Storybook Love, which went on to be nominated for an Academy award for best original song. DeVille performed it at the 1988 ceremony. He also acted in two minor Mickey Rourke films, Homeboy (1988) and Bullet (1996).

Having split from Toots and remarried, he moved to New Orleans and immersed himself in the city's musical culture. His 1990 album Victory Mixture was a loving celebration of New Orleans R&B. The 1992 album Backstreets Of Desire contained a mariachi reworking of Hey Joe that topped the French and Spanish charts. Finally kicking his 20-year-long heroin addiction, he purchased an 11-acre farm and began breeding horses. The life of the country gentleman lasted only a few years as the Inland Revenue Service, however, confiscated the property in lieu of unpaid taxes. Soon afterwards DeVille's second wife, Lisa, committed suicide, and a car crash in 2000 shattered his leg and arm.

Forced to walk with a cane, DeVille continued recording strong albums and touring in Europe. His 2008 album Pistola was widely hailed as one of his best. Last year he cancelled a planned European tour due to hepatitis C, then discovered he had pancreatic cancer.

He is survived by his third wife, Nina, and a son from his first marriage.

• Willy DeVille (William Borsay), singer and songwriter, born 25 August 1950; died 6 August 2009

2) Les Paul

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.

According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.

He had been hospitalized in February 2006 when he learned he won two Grammys for an album he released after his 90th birthday, "Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played."

"I feel like a condemned building with a new flagpole on it," he joked.

As an inventor, Paul helped bring about the rise of rock 'n' roll and multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the "tracks" in the finished recording.

With Ford, his wife from 1949 to 1962, he earned 36 gold records and 11 No. 1 pop hits, including "Vaya Con Dios," "How High the Moon," "Nola" and "Lover." Many of their songs used overdubbing techniques that Paul the inventor had helped develop.

"I could take my Mary and make her three, six, nine, 12, as many voices as I wished," he recalled. "This is quite an asset." The overdubbing technique was highly influential on later recording artists such as the Carpenters.

The use of electric guitar gained popularity in the mid-to-late 1940s, and then exploded with the advent of rock the 1950s.

"Suddenly, it was recognized that power was a very important part of music," Paul once said. "To have the dynamics, to have the way of expressing yourself beyond the normal limits of an unamplified instrument, was incredible. Today a guy wouldn't think of singing a song on a stage without a microphone and a sound system."

A tinkerer and musician since childhood, he experimented with guitar amplification for years before coming up in 1941 with what he called "The Log," a four-by-four piece of wood strung with steel strings.

"I went into a nightclub and played it. Of course, everybody had me labeled as a nut." He later put the wooden wings onto the body to give it a tradition guitar shape.

In 1952, Gibson Guitars began production on the Les Paul guitar.

Pete Townsend of The Who, Steve Howe of Yes, jazz great Al DiMeola and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page all made the Gibson Les Paul their trademark six-string.

Over the years, the Les Paul series has become one of the most widely used guitars in the music industry. In 2005, Christie's auction house sold a 1955 Gibson Les Paul for $45,600.

 

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a real rock led night last week, more of the same this week I hope
very warren zevon-y, which is never a bad thing

here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Aug 18

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

Cripple Creek - Mike Seeger
Oh My Little Dutch Girl - Mike Seeger
Each Word's A Beat Of My Heart - Mink DeVille
Farewell My Summer Love - Michael Jackson
Little Sister - Elvis Presley
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Raspberry Beret - Warren Zevon
Earth Angel - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Long Ago And Oh So Far Away (Superstar) - The Carpenters
Castles Made Of Sand - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
La Bamba - Dusty Springfield
Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Keep Me In Your Heart - Warren Zevon
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
Johnny Strikes Up The Band - Warren Zevon
Wake Up And Make Love With Me - Ian Dury and The Blockheads
What'd I Say - Ray Charles
September Gurls - Big Star
Real Love - The Beatles
Beat It - Michael Jackson
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Living in America - James Brown
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
Messin' With The Kid - Rory Gallagher
Five To One - The Doors
TNT - AC/DC
Orion - Metallica
Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher
Police & Thieves - The Clash
Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
Back Door Man - The Doors
Elegantly Wasted - INXS
Touch Me - The Doors
Suicide Blonde - INXS
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Heyday - Mic Christoper
Suzanne - Nina Simone
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Warren Zevon
All Of Me - Django Reinhardt
Breakfast Club - Speech ( a nod to John Hughes)

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Aug 25

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

okay, we didn't reinvent the wheel last Tuesday but there was a lot of requests in, so the 'musical waiter' was kept busy.

really enjoyed being asked for "Luther van Gogh", one-eared-disco-soul anybody?

oh yeah, and how have I gone a year and a bit without clicking Jim Henson counts.

Water No Get Enemy - Fela Kuti & Africa 70
Ike's Rap 2 - Isaac Hayes
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Grover Washington Jnr.
Just Like Music - Marvin Gaye
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Crying - Roy Orbison & K.D.Lang
Long Ago And Oh So Far Away (Superstar) - The Carpenters
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
Touch Me - The Doors
Disco 2000 - Joe Dolan
Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix
It's Not Easy Being Green - Kermit The Frog
Spooky - Dusty Springfield
The Tears Of A Clown - The Four Tops
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Bessie Smith
Love Her Madly - The Doors
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
Santeria - Sublime
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1 - James Brown
Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
May You Never - John Martyn
Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver
Crying In The Chapel - Elvis Presley
Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
What'd I Say - Ray Charles
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
More Than a Woman - Aaliyah
No Scrubs - TLC
Bad Penny - Rory Gallagher
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
For What It's Worth - The Muppets
Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynott
Old Town - Phil Lynott
End Of The Line - Traveling Wilburys
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher
Leave Me Alone - Michael Jackson
Real Love - The Beatles
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Liberian Girl - Michael Jackson
Thriller - Michael Jackson
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
While My Guitar Gently Weaps - The Beatles
Imagine - John Lennon

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Sept 1

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

great craic last night, maybe it's the pre-picnic buzz or the fact that once they were inside from the rain they were intent on having a good time.

double reason to play River Deep Mountain High, what with Ellie Greenwich passing away last week.I shall be off the decks next week, and Stevie G will be filling in. He'll probably do her much more justice

Yes We Can - Lee Dorsey
I Gotcha - Joe Tex
Give It Up - Lee Dorsey
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway
La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf
Cherish - Nina Simone
Twist And Shout - The Beatles
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
As The Crow Flies - Rory Gallagher
Somebody To Love - Queen
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Ticket To Ride - Carpenters
Claudette - Roy Orbison
Light My Fire - The Doors
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
Folsom Prison Blues [Live] - Johnny Cash
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
The Boss - James Brown
Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
She's So Fine - Jimi Hendrix
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Speed Demon - Michael Jackson
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
You're Such A Good Looking Woman - Joe Dolan
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Blues Brothers
Rock The Casbah - The Clash
(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley and The Comets
Super Freak - Rick James
River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
Mannish Boy - The Band (With Muddy Waters & Paul Butterfield)
End Of The Line - Traveling Wilburys
Spooky - Dusty Springfield
Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus - Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
You Give Me Fever - Peggy Lee
Eleanor Rigby - Ray Charles
Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
Bad - Michael Jackson
Going To My Home Town - Rory Gallagher
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Parisienne Walkways - Thin Lizzy / Gary Moore featuring Phil Lynott
Old Town - Phil Lynott
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Something - Frank Sinatra
Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Sept 15

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

of course , mister Patrick Swayze had a say in the set last week

Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
My Ding A Ling - Chuck Berry
Rocker - Miles Davis
Takes Two To Tango - Pearl Bailey
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
I'm Not Awake Yet - Rory Gallagher
Just An Old Fashioned Girl - Eartha Kitt
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
McArthur Park - Richard Harris
I Forgot To Be Your Lover - William Bell
I'll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground
Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy
Listen Girl - Mic Christoper
Our Mother The Mountain - Townes Van Zandt
Great Pretender - The Platters
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
MacArthur Park - The Four Tops
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Give It To Me Baby - Rick James
War - Edwin Starr
I Put A Spell On You - Screamin Jay Hawkins
One Piece At A Time - Johnny Cash
Stranger In My Own Home Town - Elvis Presley
Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Les Fleurs - Minnie Riperton
Czerwony Jak Cegła - Dżem
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N'Roll) - AC/DC
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye
In the Mood - Glenn Miller
You're Such A Good Looking Woman - Joe Dolan
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Come Together - The Beatles
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Blues Brothers
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Heyday - Mic Christoper
Eternal Life - Jeff Buckley
Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
Bicycle Race - Queen
Whisky - Dżem
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds
Cello Song - Nick Drake
Waltz #2 (Xo) - Elliot Smith
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze

 

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double reason to play this song tomorrow

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/lucy-in-the-sky-dies-428079.html

The woman who inspired the classic Beatles song 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds', has died aged 46, a charity said today.

The song featured on the ground-breaking 1967 album 'Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'.

John Lennon’s elder son Julian said it was inspired by a picture he drew of his classmate Lucy O’Donnell when they were at a nursery school in Weybridge, Surrey, in 1966.

Julian said he took the picture home and showed it to his father, explaining: “It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”

When Lennon and Paul McCartney’s song was subsequently released, it caused controversy because of its hallucinogenic theme and supposed reference to the drug LSD.

The former classmates resumed their friendship in recent months when Lennon heard that Lucy, who was married to Ross Vodden and lived in Surbiton, Surrey, had become ill with lupus, a disease of the immune system.

The St Thomas Lupus Trust, which had been supporting Mr and Mrs Vodden during her illness, said she died last Tuesday aged 46.

Angie Davidson, campaign director of the trust, said: “Everyone at the Louise Coote Lupus Unit was dreadfully shocked by the death of Lucy. She was a great supporter of ours and a real fighter.

“It’s so sad that she has finally lost the battle she fought so bravely for so long.”

The trust said that Lennon and his mother Cynthia were “shocked and saddened” by Mrs Vodden’s death.

A book of condolence will be opened on the trust’s website www.lupus.org.uk.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/lucy-in-the-sky-dies-428079.html#ixzz0SPpK59Ii

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Sept 22

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

A few songs featuring Mary Travers R.I.P. at the starty of the party

Lucha De Gigantes - Nacha Pop
If I Had A Hammer - Peter. Paul & Mary
Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter. Paul & Mary
I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane - Peter. Paul & Mary
Lilac Wine - Nina Simone
Head And Heart - John Martyn
Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley
Can You Handle It - Eddie Bo
Blueberry Hill - Gene Autry
Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
War - Edwin Starr
You Like Me Too Much - The Beatles
Heyday - Mic Christoper
Police & Thieves - The Clash
Girl - The Beatles
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Refreny Witkacego I - Maryla Rodowicz, Magda Umer, Marek Grechuta
Boogie Chillun - John Lee Hooker
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Rockin' Chair - The Band
Alabama Bound - Leadbelly
Hello, I Love You - The Doors
She's A Mystery To Me - Roy Orbison
Dancing In The Moonlight - Thin Lizzy
Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher
Love Me Two Times - The Doors
The Irish Rover - The Pogues & The Dubliners
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
It's A Kind Of Magic - Queen
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Rainy Night In Soho - Ronnie Drew & Damien Dempsey
The Boss - James Brown
Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Wu-Tang Clan feat ODB
Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
Rock With You - Michael Jackson
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
Five To One - The Doors
Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin (With Full Tilt Boogie)
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Imagine - John Lennon

 

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new addition to the great orchestra in the sky

had never heard of this guy before, jeez it sounded like he had quite the life

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/05/bobby-graham-obituary

The drummer Bobby Graham, who has died of cancer aged 69, was one of the most prolific studio musicians during British pop's epic years of the 1960s, and was described by the producer Shel Talmy as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced". He is believed to have played on 15,000 recordings, and also won himself a niche in musical history by turning down an offer to join the Beatles in 1962. "Why would I want to join a band in Liverpool that nobody's ever heard of?" Graham had retorted.

Born in Edmonton, north London, Graham began his drumming career by bashing away at a home-made kit given to him by his father. He made such rapid progress that his parents soon bought him a real drumkit, and Graham learned his craft by playing along to big-band recordings. He left school at 15 with the intention of becoming a jazz drummer, but after playing weekly gigs in the Witch's Cauldron coffee bar in Hampstead, in 1960 he was offered a job playing cover versions with a rock'n'roll band, Billy Gray and the Stormers, at a Butlins holiday camp in Yorkshire.

The group caught the ear of the maverick producer Joe Meek, who renamed them the Outlaws and hired them to back up his proteges Mike Berry and John Leyton. However, Graham grew exasperated with the brilliant but unstable Meek, and accepted an offer to join Joe Brown's band, the Bruvvers. He was on tour with Brown in Liverpool when he was offered the Beatles job, because their original drummer Pete Best was proving unsatisfactory.

Graham left Brown in 1963 ("We didn't always see eye to eye. I was pretty wild in those days," he recalled) and joined Marty Wilde's Wildcats. His skills began to attract wider attention, and he played his first date as a session musician on Davey Graham's album The Guitar Player in 1962. Then he was spotted by John Barry and spent six months with the John Barry Seven.

Now with a young family to support, Graham opted for the security of full-time session work. He would frequently play three sessions a day, starting at 10am and finishing at 2am the following morning. Graham displayed an instinctive feel for rock'n'roll, and often found himself in a studio with other regulars such as the pianist Arthur Greenslade and the future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.

Graham would be called on to play anything from film soundtracks to orchestral recordings with PJ Proby or Petula Clark to small-band sessions with the Kinks (he played on You Really Got Me and All Day and All of the Night). He appeared on countless hits of the period, from Tom Jones's Green Green Grass of Home and Dusty Springfield's I Only Want to Be With You to the Walker Brothers' Make It Easy on Yourself. He also claimed to have drummed with the Dave Clark Five, though Dave Clark denied this. In 1964 Graham cut his teeth as a producer with the Pretty Things, and made his own debut single, Skin Deep, in 1965.

His career developed a continental slant when he was recruited by the French label owner Eddie Barclay to record English acts for the French market, but Graham soon learned that "you could not get anything English off the ground in France" and called it a day. Then, a meeting with a Dutch producer, Freddie Haayan, led to four years in the Netherlands working with Dutch acts, but Graham developed a debilitating drink problem and returned to England in 1971.

Successfully dried out, he worked for a while producing artists for Christian labels, then opened a record shop in Edmonton called The Trading Post. In the 1980s he moved away from music and formed a company making corporate training videos, but when this foundered Graham returned to the drums. He formed his own band, The Jazz Experience, and played around north London and Hertfordshire.

He was diagnosed with stomach cancer in April. He is survived by his wife. Belinda, son Shawn and brother Ian.

• Bobby Graham (Robert Francis Neate), drummer, born 11 March 1940; died 14 September 2009

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Oct 7

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

The drummer from the Dusty Springfield song, Bobby Graham , passed a way a few weeks ago. R.I.P.

2 songs with same name at the end of the night, unless it turns out to be a 'reworking by EST' of the Tony Joe White tune, I've gotta hold my hands up I never get those

I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield
Pick Myself Up - Peter Tosh
I'm Not Awake Yet - Rory Gallagher
Alone Again Or - Love
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye
Jack O'Diamonds - Blind Lemon Jefferson
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Somebody That I Used To Know - Elliot Smith
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Disorder - Joy Division
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
Under Pressure - Queen And David Bowie
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Moby Dick - Led Zepplin
Bad Penny - Rory Gallagher
Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley
Five To One - The Doors
Going Up The Country - Canned Heat
No Rain - Blind Melon
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Ain't Misbehavin' - Stephane Grappelli
Dealer - John Martyn
Young Willing And Able - Minnie Riperton
Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Nina Simone
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
Rag Mama Rag - The Band
Everybody's Talkin' - Fred Neil
Long Ago And Oh So Far Away (Superstar) - The Carpenters
McArthur Park - Richard Harris
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Blues Brothers
War - Edwin Starr
Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher
Accidentally Like A Martyr - Warren Zevon
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam - Nirvana
As The Crow Flies - Esbjörn Svensson Trio
As The Crow Flies - Rory Gallagher

 

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double reason to play some Nick Drake

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/07/robert-kirby-obituary

In his first year as a music student at Cambridge University, Robert Kirby sought to join Footlights, the undergraduates' fabled arts and drama club. He was turned down, but the events of that day had a momentous impact on his life. Among others who auditioned unsuccessfully was a deeply sensitive would-be singer-songwriter called Nick Drake. The affable and ebullient Kirby and the painfully shy Drake seemed polar opposites, yet they formed an immediate and intuitive bond. Drake asked Kirby to arrange his songs, and Kirby went on to play a key role on two Drake albums and in his resultant enduring status as a cult icon.

Kirby, who has died following emergency heart surgery, aged 61, would appear on more than 100 albums and work as an orchestrator and arranger for Paul Weller, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Steve Ashley, Ralph McTell, the Strawbs and Magic Numbers, among others, but he was always indelibly linked with Drake. "Everything always goes back to Nick Drake," he said. "Meeting Nick made my career."

Kirby was born into a working-class family in Hertfordshire, won a scholarship to Bishop's Stortford college and went to Caius College, Cambridge, intending to become a music teacher. His first love was folk music and in his mid-teens he toured Germany with a folk group playing Bob Dylan covers. But it was George Martin's work with the Beatles – notably on Eleanor Rigby and She's Leaving Home – which inspired Kirby to want to arrange music rather than be a frontman. "My favourite musician is Mozart," he said, "but the Beatles run him a close second."

When his tutor at Cambridge told him his compositions sounded like cornflakes commercials, he took it as a great compliment. "That good?" he said. At Cambridge he formed a string octet, appearing for the first time with Drake at the Caius May Ball and playing three songs with him – Way to Blue, The Thoughts of Mary Jane and Day Is Done – that later appeared on Drake's debut album, Five Leaves Left (1969).

Drake dropped out of Cambridge at the end of his second year in 1968 after being discovered by the producer Joe Boyd, who quickly booked him into a studio and recruited his own arranger, Richard Hewson, to work on the record. The wilful Drake disliked what Hewson had done and insisted that his old college friend Kirby would do a better job. Despite having never set foot in a recording studio before, Kirby also quit Cambridge to throw in his lot with Drake, a man he regarded as "the best lyric writer to come out of England". He wrote the delicate string arrangements that characterise Five Leaves Left – though Harry Robinson was brought in to arrange River Man because the inexperienced Kirby could not then write in 5:4 time.

They remained close friends and collaborators. Drake would record a song with guitar on a tape recorder, vaguely suggesting an oboe or violin part, and Kirby would then sit down with him, deciphering his complex guitar tunings, meticulously notating every chord. Himself adept on guitar, piano and various brass instruments, Kirby painstakingly wrote out his arrangements on manuscripts, believing the limits of his instrumental competence would stifle his imagination if he tried to compose on an instrument. A man who eschewed computer tech-nology, he employed the same method for the rest of his career, despite the tension it invariably created in the studio as the musicians gathered and he waited to hear for the first time whether or not they would replicate the sounds in his head.

Drake craved a more commercial direction for his second LP Bryter Layter (1970) and Kirby's intricate work on it was partly inspired by the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. But this and the third LP, Pink Moon (1972), sold poorly and it hit Kirby hard when a disillusioned Drake died suddenly in 1974, aged 26, after an overdose of an antidepressant drug.

However, Kirby went on to work on albums with Sandy Denny, McTell, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, Richard and Linda Thompson and – most closely – the Strawbs, who, finding themselves in need of a keyboard player following Rick Wakeman's departure to join Yes, invited him on the road with them. It was a rewarding period but, returning from a long US tour in 1979, he found the wind had changed and, with the advent of punk and disco, there was little demand for sophisticated string arrangements.

In December 1979, he married and abandoned the insecurity of a musical career to take a "proper job" in market research, rising to become a director of Ipsos. He continued to write arrange-ments for selected projects such as Costello's 1982 album Almost Blue, the London Symphony Orchestra's Screen Classics Vol 7 (1994) and Weller's Heliocentric (2000).

All the while, Drake's posthumous reputation grew, and Kirby was delighted as new generations discovered the music of his old friend. He remained loyal to Drake's memory, often debunking the myths of an impressionable, permanently depressed romantic that had arisen around him, taking great delight in telling joyous stories of their happy, drunken nights together in the pub. "Everybody at the time had long hair, was angst-ridden and read French impressionist poets. He wasn't that abnormal," he said.

As Drake's celebrity grew, another obscure record Kirby had worked on in 1970 – Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan – belatedly won attention through use in a TV advertisement, and the spotlight shone back on Kirby. He reconnected with some of those he had worked with previously, but was also increasingly sought out by young bands who felt empathy with Drake, notably the Magic Numbers, for whom he came to be as much a mentor as an arranger.

Kirby retired from market research to concentrate again on music, achieving a career highlight by writing a new arrangement of the Beatles' She's Leaving Home for the Magic Numbers to cover on a 40th anniversary remake of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In May this year he was again writing new arrangements of Drake songs for a tribute concert in Birmingham. His marriage ended in divorce last year but, ever gregarious and full of ideas, he planned a move from London to East Anglia and was looking forward to new commissions and indulging his long-held passion for cider brewing.

He is survived by his daughter Constance and son Henry.

• Robert Bruce Kirby, musical arranger and orchestrator, born 16 April 1948; died 3 October 2009

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Nov 3


every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

great film festival, craic. a few songs with a movie twist
think the whole nigght was pretty much requests

the mozaik lads had a few requests towards at the end
spot the lunny, irvine and molsky picks

Better Life - Flowered Up
Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
Pick Myself Up - Peter Tosh
Santeria - Sublime
They Don't Care About Us - Michael Jackson
When The Going Gets Tough - Boyzone
No Scrubs - TLC
More Than A Woman - Aaliyah
Suicide Blonde - INXS
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Somebody That I Used To Know - Elliot Smith
Come Together - The Beatles
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
The Lady Is A Tramp - Frank Sinatra
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
McArthur Park - Richard Harris
ABC - The Jackson 5
You're Such A Good Looking Woman - Joe Dolan
Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - The Mamas And The Papas
The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
Johnny Strikes Up The Band - Warren Zevon
The Bigger The Figure - Louis Prima
Ghost Riders In The Sky - Johnny Cash
Thank You For The Days - Kirsty MacColl
Rag Mama Rag - The Band
Tripping Out - Curtis Mayfield
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Little Wing Stevie Ray Vaughan
Yes We Can - Lee Dorsey
Don't Do It - The Band
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And The Blockheads
Instant Karma - John Lennon
Devil Inside - INXS
One Way Out (Live - 1971/Fillmore East) - The Allman Brothers Band
Big Bad John - Johnny Cash
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - John McCormack
If Ever You Go To Dublin Town - Ronnie Drew
Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Nov 10

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

okay last week Mozaik had a fair few requests, this week we had the afters of a fashion show. which funnily enough had a different set of requests than the previous week

Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Baby It's You - The Shirelles
Just A Gigolo - Louis Prima
Ain't Got No/I Got Life - Nina Simone
Buzzin' Fly - Tim Buckley
Break On Through - The Doors
ABC - The Jackson 5
In The Mood - Glenn Miller
Spooky - Dusty Springfield
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
Sarah - Thin Lizzy
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Waltz #2 (Xo) - Elliott Smith
Buffalo Solider - Bob Marley
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Waterfalls - TLC
Player Has Butterflies - Michael Jackson & J Dilla
Is This Love - Bob Marley
Are You That Somebody? - Aaliyah
The House With The Whitewashed Gable - Joe Dolan
Picture Of You - Boyzone
My Girl - Otis Redding
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Long Ago And Oh So Far Away (Superstar) - The Carpenters
Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen - The Andrews Sisters
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Under Pressure - Queen And David Bowie
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Bad Penny - Rory Gallagher
The Onion Song - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
Rock With You - Michael Jackson
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy
Young Willing And Able - Minnie Riperton
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Wild Rover - Luke Kelly
Walk Like A Man - Four Seasons
Something - The Beatles
Fairy Tales Lullaby - John Martyn

 

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will play a set of his stuff this tues

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/11/luther-dixon-obituary


Luther Dixon obituary

He wrote dozens of hits in the 50s and 60s

* Buzz up!
* Digg it

* Garth Cartwright
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 November 2009 18.36 GMT
* Article history

The American songwriter and producer Luther Dixon, who has died aged 78, was responsible for dozens of pop classics in the 1950s and 60s and helped shape the classic "girl group" sound with the Shirelles. His songs were performed by artists including Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, BB King and the Jackson 5.

Dixon was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but settled in New York. He learned to sing in church, joining a rhythm and blues quartet, the Four Buddies, in 1954. He enjoyed songwriting more than performing, so he teamed up with the Buddies' lead vocalist, Larry Harrison, and the duo hawked songs around New York publishers, producers and record labels.

In 1957 Pat Boone scored a US hit with their song Why Baby Why. Perry Como and Bobby Darin both recorded Dixon's songs, and Doncha' Think It's Time (1958) was included on Presley's hugely successful 1959 album, 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong.

Sixteen Candles, co-written with Allyson Khent, was recorded by the Crests and reached No 2 in the US charts in 1959. It quickly became a standard. Dixon co-wrote another standard, Big Boss Man, recorded by the blues singer Jimmy Reed. This class-conscious shuffle was immensely popular and went on to be a hit with a variety of singers.

In 1959 Dixon was hired as a producer and arranger by Florence Greenberg, who was intent on establishing Scepter among the many small labels specialising in black pop music. His status on the New York scene meant he was able to obtain part-ownership of Scepter and complete freedom to sign and produce artists. Greenberg paired him initially with a quartet of teenage girls called the Shirelles who attended high school with her daughter. The Shirelles had already scored a minor 1958 hit on Greenberg's former label Tiara, with subsequent releases failing. Dixon recognised their potential and developed them into one of the first consistently successful girl groups.

He produced the hits Will You Love Me Tomorrow? and Baby It's You, and also co-wrote Soldier Boy, Mama Said, Boys, Tonight's the Night and Baby It's You. (For the last of these Dixon went under the pseudonym Barney Williams when writing with Burt Bacharach and Hal David.) The Beatles recorded Baby It's You and Boys for their debut album, Please Please Me, in 1963.

He left Scepter that year after Capitol Records invited him to set up his own label, Ludix Records. Here he signed, wrote for and produced a variety of soul singers, but with little success. He then returned to working as a freelance producer and songwriter. He co-wrote Soul Serenade with the saxophonist King Curtis and co-wrote and produced the Platters' mid-60s return to hit-making with the single I Love You 1,000 Times, co-written with his new wife, the soul singer Inez Foxx. He produced Foxx and her brother Charlie's 1967 album Come By Here, but the couple later divorced.

Changes in popular music meant Dixon found himself out of time by the late 1960s. Yet his works gained a new lease of life after the film American Graffiti (1973) used Sixteen Candles on its evocative soundtrack. His songs enjoyed a renaissance in a variety of mediums, with Sixteen Candles inspiring John Hughes's 1984 teen film of the same name (with the Stray Cats performing the song) while Boys recently appeared on the Beatles' Rock Band computer game.

Dixon retired to Florida and was nominated for the Songwriters Hall of Fame shortly before he died.

• Luther Dixon, songwriter and producer, born 7 August 1931; died 22 October 2009

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Nov 17

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

great bunch of people in on Tuesday night, some really good swingign dancing

I Want To Break Free - Queen
African Descendents - Alton Ellis
Come Together - Michael Jackson
He's Got All The Whiskey - John Martyn
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
I Walk The Line - Telly Savalas
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Here Comes The Rooster - Alice In Chains
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Disorder - Joy Division
Real Love - The Beatles
May You Never - John Martyn
Fruit Tree - Nick Drake
Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Santeria - Sublime
King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - The Band
Eternal Life - Jeff Buckley
Yer Blues - The Beatles
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Bullfrog Blues - Rory Gallagher
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Here I Go Syd Barrett
I Got A Woman - Ray Charles
Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper
Let's Twist Again - Big Bopper
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
I Get a Kick Out Of You - Frank Sinatra
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - The Mamas And The Papas
In The Mood - Glenn Miller
The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield
Top Of The World - The Carpenters
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Living In America - James Brown
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Blues Brothers
Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
I've Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison
I'm Not Awake Yet - Rory Gallagher
L'Etranger - Edith Piaf
Raglan Road - Luke Kelly

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Nov 24

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people


I'm Not Awake Yet - Rory Gallagher
Castles Made Of Sand - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith
Pictures Of Me - Elliott Smith
Whatever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon
My Girl - Otis Redding
People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield
Pick Myself Up - Peter Tosh
I Don't Want to Grow Up - The Ramones
Big Bad John - Johnny Cash
Renegade - Thin Lizzy
Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash
Mind Games - John Lennon
Bless The Weather - John Martyn
Accidentally Like A Martyr - Warren Zevon
An American Trilogy - Elvis Presley
Bad Boy - Willy Deville
Goin' Back - Dusty Springfield
Whiskey Bar - The Doors
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
What A Wonderful World This Would Be - Sam Cooke
Ain't Got No / I Got Life - Nina Simone
I Got A Woman - Ray Charles
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
A New England - Kirsty MacColl
Under Pressure - Queen
Bonnie And Clyde - Serge Gainsbourg (with Brigette Bardot)
Come Together - The Beatles
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Let's Twist Again - Big Bopper
Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
In These Shoes? - Kirsty MacColl
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
20th Century Boy - Marc Bolan & T.Rex
Rock The Casbah - The Clash
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
War - Edwin Starr
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Living In America - James Brown
Break On Through - The Doors
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
Real Love - The Beatles
Dedicated To The One I Love - The Mamas And The Papas
I've Got That Photograph Of You - Spike Milligan
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen

 

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here is the playlist of Dead Cool - Dec 1

every tuesday, a whole set of music by dead people

nothing much to report the last two weeks, no great additions to the pool
nice group of requesters in the last fortnight, had a guy who really refused to believe little richard was alive, which is understandable

Somebody That I Used To Know - Elliott Smith
Seven Spanish Angels - Willie Nelson & Ray Charles
Son Of Sam - Elliott Smith
Instant Karma - John Lennon
Time Of No Reply - Nick Drake
Here I Go - Syd Barrett
You Were Always On My Mind - Elvis Presley
May You Never - John Martyn
Ike's Rap 2 - Isaac Hayes
Lithium - Nirvana
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Baby I Got Your Money - ODB ft Kelis
Look What They Done To My Song, Ma - Ray Charles
The Way Young Lovers Do - Jeff Buckley
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
LA Woman - The Doors
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
White Riot - The Clash
Spooky -Dusty Springfield
Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
I Drove All Night - Roy Orbison
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Twist And Shout - The Beatles
War - Edwin Starr
Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher
Respect - Otis Redding
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley
Alone Again Or - Love
Break On Through - The Doors
Heyday - Mic Christopher
Stranger In My Own Home Town - Elvis Presley
Philby - Rory Gallagher
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Santeria - Sublime
Redemption Song - Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer
Everybody's Talkin' - Fred Neil
We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters
Going Up The Country - Canned Heat
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
No Rain - Blind Melon
Rag Mama Rag - The Band
Messin' With The Kid - Rory Gallagher
You Ain't Going Nowhere - The Byrds
Taxman - The Beatles
Sarah - Thin Lizzy
Donna - Ritchie Valens
In The Still Of Night - Cole Porter
Walk Like A Man - Four Seasons
All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
The End - The Doors

 

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the latest addition to the canon

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The Knack Lead Singer Doug Fieger Dies Doug Fieger, the lead singer of The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit My Sharona, has died at the age of 57.
Fieger, passed away at his a home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after a six year battle with cancer, according to The Knack's manager, Jake Hooker.
He formed The Knack in 1978 and the group quickly became popular in LA rock clubs.
It was when Fieger co-wrote and sang lead vocals on My Sharona that The Knack started to become known beyond Sunset Strip.
Fieger said the song was inspired by a girlfriend of four years.
"I had never met a girl like her - ever," he said in a 1994 interview.
"She induced madness. She was a very powerful presence.
"She had an insouciance that wouldn't quit. She was very self-assured. She also had an overpowering scent, and it drove me crazy."
My Sharona emerged during disco's heyday and held the number one spot on the Billboard pop chart for six weeks.
He never recreated that single's blockbuster success but he continued touring under The Knack banner.