UPDATE (10/24/2013): This set has been pushed back to January 20, 2014 (and duly retitled) to better coincide with some more Mike + The Mechanics events in the coming year, including a U.K. tour in the winter of 2014, a forthcoming memoir from Rutherford and a planned reissue of The Living Years for its 25th anniversary. Original post (9/12/2013):Although Phil Collins was the one member of Genesis it was impossible to escape during the '80s, thanks to an increasingly popular solo career and
Archives for October 24, 2013
Beyond "Baby Blue": Edsel Collects Badfinger Albums, BBC Sessions
An estimated ten million people watched the September 29 series finale of AMC’s Breaking Bad, with a memorable final scene set to Badfinger’s “Baby Blue.” By the following morning, the Pete Ham song produced by Todd Rundgren for the 1971 Apple Records release Straight Up had been downloaded more than 5,000 times – boosting its sales by some 3,000 percent! “Baby Blue” remained in the iTunes Top 20 for next two days. It also racked up roughly 30,000 downloads over the following week,
Back to "The Labyrinth": Sting's Lute Album Revisited with Live Tracks
It's likely the first time in history a "450th anniversary edition" of an album will ever be released! Universal is repackaging Sting's esoteric 2006 outing Songs from the Labyrinth to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the 16th century English composer to which Sting paid tribute on the album. Even for a fellow as intensely...Sting-like as the man born Gordon Sumner, you could be forgiven for seeing Songs from the Labyrinth as a tough sell. Working solely with Bosnian lutenist Edin