Saturday, 9 July 2011

TOP 9s : GUESS WHO 8

No, you are not hearing Led Zeppelin. But it sure as heck sounds like it. This rocking track got to number 39 in Australia and just made the UK Top 75 in 1988.

TOP 9s : GUESS WHO 7

Wicked Lester of course became KISS, the first band I ever got to see live in concert. (It should have been ABBA, but that's a whole other story. And would require many more hours of therapy...)
Some more Beatles influence for ya...

TOP 9s : GUESS WHO 6

This may or may not be the first of many McCartney-related posts. But if I were you, I'd hold off placing any bets just yet...
Sometime Wings sticksman, Joe English proves he's not just a superb time-keeper, he also possesses a sweet, sweet voice.
From the criminally under-rated Wings At The Speed Of Sound...

Friday, 8 July 2011

Top 9s : GUESS WHO 5

Recorded in the early to mid 1960s, this is a sweet ditty from three young lads who turned out to be The Bee Gees.
Whatever became of them, I sometimes wonder...?

TOP 9s : GUESS WHO 4

This is the secret track to Styx's worst-selling album ever, The Serpent Is Rising.
Released in 1974, it just scraped into the American Top 200.
I still think the calypso-inspired 'Plexiglass Toilet' is a great song and would defy anybody to know who the artist was without previous knowledge...

TOP 9s : GUESS WHO 3

You could be forgiven for not instantly recognising the artist of this track, the b-side to the better-known, 'Sing'. With the better-known vocalist, Richard's sister, Karen.

TOP 9s : GUESS WHO 2

Born Chaim Witz in Israel, he is better known as the blood-spilling demon in rock band KISS. But Gene Simmons shows he has a sensitive side too, with this pretty, Beatlesque ballad from his 1978 solo album. The original John and Paul from the Broadway musical, Beatlemania lend a hand by supplying backing vocals...