HeyJaredThe Music History Club
Sunday round-ups of historical music events from 10 years ago through to over 100 years ago. There will be album anniversaries, artist profiles, inspiring quotes, music facts and figures, and loads more.
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The Making of Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, 50 Years On... (opens the original)
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Please note, this is a paid piece. Free subscribers get a preview…Seventeen tracks across four sides, all written or co-written by the master that is Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life is the sound of a star at the pinnacle of his musical powers. It produced some of his greatest and most beloved work including ‘Isn’t She Lovely’, ‘Sir Duke’, ‘Knocks Me Off My Feet’, and ‘As’.Recording sessions for <s
The Sunday Round-Up: 28th Sept-4th Oct (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, the Smiths, Billy Joel, the Cranberries) (opens the original)
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55 Years On… Teaser and the Firecat by Yusuf/Cat Stevens, also known as Yusuf Islam (released on 1st October 1971)1971 was a great year for music. It produced some legendary albums from Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Joni Mitchell’s Blue, and Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV to David Bowie’s Hunky Dory, Carole King’s Tapestry, John Lennon’s Imagine,
Further Listening (Yusuf/Cat Stevens) (opens the original)
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Title Photograph by Mr Brian Aris/Camera Press London‘Wild World’ from Tea for the Tillerman (1970)‘“Wild World” was really my parting song with my girlfriend Patti D’Arbanville. We’d had some great times together, but I started recording and she was doing her modeling and it just became like two different worlds,’ said Yusuf/Cat Stevens. ‘And because I’d had such an experie
The Sunday Round-Up: 14th-27th Sept (Cass Elliot, Neil Young, Steely Dan, A Tribe Called Quest) (opens the original)
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Hi everyone! I’ll be taking a break next week, so this round-up will be covering fourteen days of music history instead of the usual seven. Thank you for all your support over the last year and a bit! It’s very much appreciated, and I’ll be back with another round-up on Sunday 27th Sept!Celebrating 85 Years Since the Birth of Cass Elliot (born on 19th September 1941)‘I hope the marquee (in Vegas) just says Cass Elliot. I̵
Further Listening (Cass Elliot) (opens the original)
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‘Wild Women’ by The Big ThreeCass Elliot was part of a few different groups in her career. There was the Mugwumps, the Mamas & the Papas, and the Triumvirate (which then became the Big Three when original Triumvirate member, John Brown, was replaced by James Hendricks).The Big Three was a folk ensemble comprising Elliot, Hendricks, and Tim Rose, but the trio didn’t last long…‘I broke up a group I was in once called the Big Three,’ recalled Elliot in a 1968 interview with Rolling Stone, ‘because
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