Formed to indulge their fascination with the psychedelic pop and rock of the late 1960s.
The Dukes of Stratosphear were a fictional English psychedelic-pop group who were, in reality, a side project and alter ego of XTC. Formed in 1984 in Swindon, Wiltshire, the Dukes allowed Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory to indulge their fascination with the psychedelic pop and rock of the late 1960s without the expectations attached to the XTC name.
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite songs by the Beatles.
“Do You Want to Know a Secret” is a 1963 Beatles song written primarily by John Lennon, though credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, and sung by George Harrison on the group’s debut album, Please Please Me; recorded at EMI Studios in London on February 11, 1963, and produced by George Martin, it is a brief, tender early-pop love
These are songs that contain the month “September” in their lyrics.
“Wake Me Up When September Ends” is a song by Green Day, written by lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and released on June 13, 2005, as the fourth single from the band’s seventh studio album, American Idiot (2004). Produced by Rob Cavallo, the emotionally powerful rock ballad was inspired by Armstrong’s father, Andrew,
They played frequently in a local bar and started opening for bands such as Jefferson Airplane and the Byrds.
Space Opera was a band from Texas that released a self titled album in 1973 on Epic Records. They had at least one single, titled “County Max”. The four-man group hailed from Fort Worth, Texas. Their album was recorded at Manta Sound in Toronto, Ontario, and mixed and Mastered at Crystal Sound, Hollywood, CA.
A founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock groups.
David Van Cortlandt Crosby was born on Aug. 14, 1941, in Los Angeles into families with deep roots in American history dating back to Dutch rule in New York in the 17th century. His mother, who was born Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, descended from the prominent Van Cortlandt family[1]. His father, Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award-winning cinematographer whose credits included the classic western “High Noon,” was a member of the Van Rensselaer clan[2].
