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March 24, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

On Song: Forum and Chat – Upper Hutt

This Wednesday, March 27, I’ll be appearing at the Upper Hutt Cosmopolitan Club to talk about my book, On Song. I’ll be playing some of the songs from the book and chatting about the stories behind the tunes, the material in the book. I’ll also be talking about my role as a popular music critic [...]

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December 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

On Song: Playlist

Since writing On Song – and even while writing it – people have asked for a CD, a download, a playlist… It would have been nice for there to be a double-CD but it’s expensive. I liked the idea too that in this day and age people can so easily find the music if/when they [...]

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June 22, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1956

Fleetwood Mac, Penguin (1973) I love all Fleetwood Mac stuff – the blues band stuff with Peter Green, the stadium-filling hits with Stevie and Lindsey and the interesting middle-ground years, 1971-1975; the years that the history books seem to forget about. Bob Welch ran the band – in another lifetime he might be acknowledged as [...]