Eric Clapton: Layla (and Other Assorted Love Songs)
Launched into the stratosphere with arguably (in my humble opinion, indisputably) the greatest opening riff in the history of rock, Layla…
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Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
Elton John: Love Lies Bleeding for an intruder in the dust
Rubbish. A load of old trash. Garbage. These are words that always spring to my mind when I hear the opening tracks of Elton John’s Goodbye…
Skip James: I'm So Glad – and so is the world of blues
In April 1964 Nehemiah ‘Skip’ James was not a happy man. Holed up in the Tunica County Hospital in north-west Mississippi, ravaged by a…
Professor Longhair: Tipitina and a graduate of the Crescent City
New Orleans. Summer 1977. I was a freshly-graduated 21-year-old with a student work permit arranged under the British Universities North…
Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
April 25 1970 at London's Royal Albert Hall. I had just turned 14 and this was the first live gig I'd ever been to. A few weeks earlier, my…
Robert Johnson: Hell Hound On My Trail
On a blisteringly hot Sunday in June 1937 a young man walked into the striking art deco office building that stands at 508 Park Building in…
Etta James: I’d Rather Go Blind
If you like your songs sad then there are few more desolate than Etta James’ I'd Rather Go Blind. A bluesy soul classic from 1967, it simply
Lowell George: Willin’
I absolutely love maps. I always have. I can’t walk past any of those information boards dotted about town and countryside without examining
Got It Covered: My 10 Favourite Renditions
One of the greatest pop songs of all time by one of the greatest singers covering yet another all-time great in Otis Redding. It couldn’t…
Allman Brothers Band: Blue Sky
In the summer of 1974, like many other 18-year-olds at the time, I was nervously awaiting my A-Level results. I needed a B and two Cs in…
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