Paul McCartney – Once upon a long ago
“Once upon a long ago” sounds like a special song to me.
Some songs enter our lives for unexplicable reasons, occurences, and they don’t go away. And they will never go away. Thirty years ago the great Sir Paul McCartney wrote this song for a due with his close friends Freddie Mercury.
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On Nov 16, 1987, the great Rick Astley released his first album “Whenever you need somebody”. We already met him: a sensational voice, an undeniable talent, the meeting with the three producers of the late 80s, projecting him towards success. But Rick still remains, we say it after 30 years,
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ABC – King without a crown
But a King without a crown! Martin Fry and ABC were definitely a stylish group, created some great music, but I think they were sort of underestimated.
Maybe thay lacked some perseverance or maybe their songs, yet beautiful, never reached the peaks required to become Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet.
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Eurythmics – (I love to listen to) Beethoven
In everything she did, throughout all the 80s, Annie Lennox was extreme, like in “Beethoven”. Extremely skilled, peculiar, iconic, sometimes upsetting, seductive. Both in the worldwide hits of the first albums like “Sweet dreams” and “It’s alright”, and in the hit that had minor success.
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Whitesnake – Here I go again
Whitesnake released “Here I go again” thirty years ago, early November 1987, and this song has a great story behind. We know Whitesnake are the creation in the 80s of David Coverdale, who was in the 70s one of the leaders of Deep Purple,
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Genius, we had one. The Prince of Minneapolis, author of this fantastic song. Madness, there she was, upset girl at her first success, handsome but also weird, a fabulous voice, great empathy. But also great fragility, for all of her life, between changes of mind and suicide attempts. We know the 80’s recipe for success,
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George Michael – Faith
You need faith: after years as the frontman of the most famous duo of the 80s, it’s not easy to start a new career as a solo artist. The 80s are changing, you are growing up. Yiu look for a music that is more mature than the one you made with Andrew Ridgeley (even if after all you were the big part of the game).
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Communards – Never can say goodbye
“Never can say goodbye” means the typical song that everybody heard at least once in their lifetime. In fact 30 years ago, end of October 1987, Communards and Jimmy Somerville (after dismantling the Bronski Beat, where we knew him as Jimi), released their second album,
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Actually he never reached again the fame he got with “You can leave your hat on”, but after all Joe Cocker was not really a meteor, he was an experienced guy who had played with the Beatles at the beginning of his career. And who in autumn 1987, after all,
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