There’s so many Bruce Springsteen songs that could have made my Top 10 but I’ve included this one because of the live version. Listen to the album track and it’s good, not his best song but good. Listen to the live version and it’s a whole different song. It’s almost as if there are two […]

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There’s been some weird side effects from lockdown, not least on the world wide web. I’m going to post some of the better examples I’ve found over the next few days starting with The Clark Family Creative, click here to visit their YouTube Channel. I won’t spoil your enjoyment by giving too much away but […]

So, we’re into my top 5 songs of all time. Released in 1983 Every Breath You Take has become a staple at weddings, funerals and family gatherings. It’s easy to forget that this isn’t a love song, it’s essentially a song about stalking, but in Sting’s hands it transcends that and becomes whatever you want […]

Without any doubt Joni Mitchell is one of the greatest songwriters ever. River, on the face of it, is such a simple song, just a piano and voice. No lavish orchestrations, no band driving the song, just Joni Mitchell playing piano and singing one of her greatest songs. The melody and lyrics of River lift […]

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Last night was supposed to be download Cubase 11 night, but things didn’t go exactly to plan. In fact it’s more accurate to say they didn’t go at all. A glitch in the internet matrix caused me to abandon the whole idea and watch Netflix instead. This morning my electrician arrived and set up the […]

There could have been any number Stones tracks in this top 10. Satisfaction, Brown Sugar, Angie, Honky Tonk Women, Paint It Black and on and on. What puts Jumping Jack Flash into this list is both the sheer brilliance of the song but also the legacy the sound and the visuals leave you with. Mick […]

I think it’s time to upgrade my music software. I recorded the whole of my album Present Tense including the three singles I’ve released so far on Cubase 10 and held off upgrading to Cubase 11 until that project was complete. Now it’s all done it’s time for me to upgrade to Cubase 11. In […]

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