The Very Best of Smokie - 14 Hit Singles

If you were 80s guy surely the name Smokie would ring a bell. 14 top hits of the UK band you probably have heard time and time again.

Zakhm – MM Kreem / Anand Bakshi

During one of my recent conversations on music with my father, who also happens to be a Hindustani Classical violinist, he made a statement

If I Could Only Remember My Name – David Cosby

CSN’s Déjà vu album. Crosby managed to get together the who’s who of the Laurel Canyon scene at the time, viz: Graham Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, members of Jefferson Airplane, Santana, and the Grateful Dead, including Jerry Garcia

Nightshift – The Commodores

Nightshift is a 1985 hit song by the Commodores from the album of the same name. The song, written by then lead singer Walter Orange in collaboration with Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde, was a tribute to soul/R&B singers Jackie Wison and mainly Marvin Gaye, who died in 1984

Ram – Paul & Linda McCartney

Drop the needle down on this one and the first thing you hear is a somewhat ominous guitar strumming, and a hoarse voice screaming “Piece of cake……”.

Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter Houston, Texas

Townes Van Zandt was an iconic American songwriter whose lyrics captured the landscape of the heart and soul of Americana.

Share the Land – The Guess Who

Canadian rockers The Guess Who hit the big time in early 1970, when American Woman zoomed up the charts, giving them their first U.S. Number One single.

Late For the Sky – Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne’s third LP took a great leap forward in terms of songwriting, delivering fully on the promise of his first two records, and establishing him firmly as a leading light in the confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

Fronted by singer-songwriter-guitarist Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins emergedas an alt-rock band in the nineties alongside grunge groups Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

Fresh Cream – Cream

Ginger Baker, one of rock music’s greatest drummer passed away on 6th October. That’s when I decided to do a Cream LP review as a homage.