Music was my first love. And it will be my last. Music of the future. And music of the past. Oooh, I think there’s a song in there somewhere. Although, being a bit of a pedant, how could John Miles sing about music that he Hadn’T Even heard of yet?
Electronic music was my real first love. The day that “Jack Your Body” by Steve Silk Hurley went to the tippety-top top of the pop parade was the day that music in this country changed forever. Goodbye Cliff Richard! Goodbye middle-of-the-road mawkish pap! Goodbye yellow brick road! Welcome to the future!
Ok, so I was a tad naïve. But what it did do, it made me not only search out music that I had previously dismissed when I was going through my pop phase (Haircut 100? Really, Neville), but also to listen to those records again and realise that well,...
Electronic music was my real first love. The day that “Jack Your Body” by Steve Silk Hurley went to the tippety-top top of the pop parade was the day that music in this country changed forever. Goodbye Cliff Richard! Goodbye middle-of-the-road mawkish pap! Goodbye yellow brick road! Welcome to the future!
Ok, so I was a tad naïve. But what it did do, it made me not only search out music that I had previously dismissed when I was going through my pop phase (Haircut 100? Really, Neville), but also to listen to those records again and realise that well,...
- 1/31/2013
- by Neville Jackson
- Obsessed with Film
Children's TV icon Terry Nutkins, who famously hosted The Really Wild Show, has died aged 66. Nutkins, who is survived by his wife and eight children, was being treated for leukaemia in hospital. His agent John Miles confirmed the news in a statement, adding: "He had fought for about nine months or so with acute leukaemia. "He was an absolutely lovely guy and just loved animals and he was never happier than when he was with animals. We will all miss him very, very much." An English naturalist, television presenter and author, Nutkins found fame in the 1980s when he became a co-presenter of the BBC children's television series Animal Magic with Johnny Morris. During his time on the show, he gripped viewers with his relationship with Californian sea lion Gemini, who he hand-reared. He went on to establish himself as a popular face on kids (more)...
- 9/7/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Electronic Arts Image from the videogame Syndicate
How will the nation’s wealth be divvied up 50 years from now? The division likely will be more drastic in the future than it is today, if videogames are to be believed (which, for obvious reasons, they shouldn’t, although Madden did pick the Giants to win the Super Bowl by a margin of three––just sayin’). Syndicate, released today, is Electronic Arts’ sci-fi dystopia, told through the language of recoiling machine guns...
How will the nation’s wealth be divvied up 50 years from now? The division likely will be more drastic in the future than it is today, if videogames are to be believed (which, for obvious reasons, they shouldn’t, although Madden did pick the Giants to win the Super Bowl by a margin of three––just sayin’). Syndicate, released today, is Electronic Arts’ sci-fi dystopia, told through the language of recoiling machine guns...
- 2/22/2012
- by Jason Johnson
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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