Music

The music we are making is a new tranche of art rock music - every bit as valid as The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, The Beatles ... but with women evolving new themes and sounds.

Here's a few ideas that might help you have a go at playing instruments without making any big financial commitment:

It soon becomes obvious that other media outlets source stories from Positive News. Would we do a podcast interview? Would we be interviewed for an English teaching magazine? Could The Guardian do a feature and interview some of the older women involved? Could Channel 5 News come up and film a jam session and talk to some women?

Music industry says it's fine to be a woman in music so long as you are well-groomed, beautiful, young, slim, good-natured, articulate, desirable, charming and possess incredible talent. If you're Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell or Debbie Harry it's ok because you used to be all those things and even after the age of 70, you can be 'looking good for your age'.

Bill King and other fans offer their thoughts on Macca’s loveliest composition. … Ask someone what they think Paul McCartney’s most  beautiful piece of music is, and you’re likely to hear titles of some of his most famous Beatles and … Continue reading →

Remembrance of beats passed.

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Cover art for the 1971 prog-rock LP “Fearless,” by British band Family features a distinctive, die-cut cover design depicting the five band members gradually morphing into a single entity combining features of them all. Tom Brigham, a high school student and friend of mine the year the LP was released, had not yet invented morphing […]

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Common Peephole She came from Greece,she had a faulty socket.Her eye fell out,she couldn’t stop it. That’s when Icaught her eye.

Morrissey’s Fridge Morrissey was filledwith suddenself-doubt as he shut his fridge door –did the light never go out?

Ever since Leslie and I started publishing Beatlefan magazine, friends, family and readers have been asking me when I was going to write a book about The Beatles. It turns out, that’s part of what I’ve been doing over the … Continue reading →