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ROCK & POP: THE TEN BEST PARTY SONGS 1COME ON EILEEN Dexys Midnight Runners (1982) You can't beat this singalong classic: it is impossible not to get up and dance to it. No matter where or when I hear the opening chords, it can't...(Continue Reading) From demo to hit: the biography of three songs by country songwriter Tom Douglas This article explores the songwriting process of Nashville-based writer Tom Douglas. Three of Douglas's songs are examined, from the creation of the ......(Continue Reading)The Battle of Decisive Days: Lindsey Hilsum finds Iraqi rulers not at all destabilised, and saying that the Americans are welcome to the desert - War/Baghdad The wind howls round Baghdad's tall, concrete buildings, whipping the dust of the desert in a gritty spiral. Trenches of oil set alight around the city ......(Continue Reading)The land of anthrax and H-bombs: it came into being when Stalin decreed it and the Soviets used it for testing weapons of mass destruction. But today, It was on New Year's Day, standing on a snowy mountain top overlooking Almaty; that I understood something about what makes Kazakhstantick. Two teenage ......(Continue Reading)Burning brides: "in our heads they are all there to see us whether they realize it or not." THERE'S GOOD MUSIC and there is shitty music. There's even shittier music too, but were not going to waste anybody's time here and start rambling. I ......(Continue Reading)
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