ROXY MUSIC
MORE THAN THIS
ONE of THE GREAT SONGS of THE 80s
VIDEO
ROXY MUSIC
Featuring BRYAN FERRY
"MORE THAN THIS"
The BADASS COOKBOOK
"MOVE OVER ROVER and LET JIMI TAKE OVER"
JIMI HENDRIX
RIP
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Spandau Ballet TRUE
TRUE
SPANDAU BALLET
The VIDEO
TRUE
"ONE of THE GREATEST SONGS of THE 80'S"
"ONE of THE GREAT SONGS EVER"
by SPANDAU BALLET
Listen to The SPANDAU BALLET
ELVIS and ALL of YOUR MUSIC
On the World's Best Music System
A BOSE
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ELVIS
JAILHOUSE ROCK
Simply Red Holding Back The Years
SIMPLY RED
HOLDING BACK THE YEARS
One of the GREAT SONGS of THE 80 's
Crowded House HEY NOW
DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER
CROWDED HOUSE
CROWDED HOUSE
DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER
aka "HEY NOW"
George Michael Carpool Karaoke
GEORGE MICHAEL
Carpool Karaoke
JAMES & GEORGE
THE BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK
by DANIEL ZWICKE
George Michael Forever
REST in PEACE Dear GEORGE
Dear GEORGE
YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED
FREEDOM
A POP MASTERPIECE From GEORGE MICHAEL
There’s a moment in George Michael’s music video for “Freedom! ’90” where director David Fincher’s camera zooms in on a leather jacket hanging in a closet. It’s the piece Michael sported proudly three years earlier in the music video for “Faith” — the item that helped Michael reinvent himself from the squeaky-clean teen idol in Wham! into a bad-ass sex god of the 1980s. But with “Freedom! ’90,” Michael sought to overhaul his image once again. And a few moments later, that leather jacket spontaneously combusts; ditto the “Faith” video’s Wurlitzer jukebox and his Gretsch guitar. Goodbye to all that.
“They were horrified,” Michael recalled of his label Sony’s reaction, in an MTVinterview in 2004. “Why would you burn something that made Sony $150 million dollars? But I quite enjoyed it.”
It might be hard to imagine now, but when George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video was released in 1990, it was nothing short of revolutionary. Its creator, who was embroiled in a dispute with his label, Sony, over his refusal to heavily promote his album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, chose not to star in his own music video. Instead, he scored a cast of lip-synching supermodels — Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, plus a crew of male models — who vamped gorgeously in a dark and dingy space. And for a Grammy-winning artist who was shaped into a global pop star thanks to MTV, Michael was slyly flipping off the network that helped make him a star.
“George was thumbing his nose at MTV with the video,” producer Simon Straker told EW in 1991.
THE GIRLS of FREEDOM
Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patiz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford
But once it hit airwaves, “Freedom! ’90” went into heavy rotation on the cable channel, scored five MTV Video Music Awards nominations (it won zero), became one of the most memorable videos of the last two-and-a-half decades, and served as a rallying anthem for the LGBT movement. It was such a classic, in fact, that Michael himself tried to recapture some of that supermodel magic for his 1992 single “Too Funky.”
“One of my better ideas was getting five gorgeous supermodels [miming to the song] that people still want to look at today,” Michael said in an interview at the time, according to the biography Careless Whispers. “If you’re going to say to your record company, ‘Look, I’m not going to be in this video,’ I’d say that’s a fairly good consolation prize really, you know, those five gorgeous babes.”
While Michael chose not to get in front the camera, he was heavily involved in its creative execution. The inspiration for supermodel stars came after Michael saw a portrait of the women shot by Peter Lindbergh for the January 1990 cover of British Vogue. And he hired director David Fincher, who’d had success helming Madonna’s “Express Yourself” video, and top stylist Camilla Nickerson. The team holed up on a London soundstage for several days. “They were long days,” Turlington told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t recall any specific direction from David Fincher. He was focused on the lighting I recall. George was there the whole time and very involved.”
As Nickerson told Allure in a definitive history of the video, “It was epic. It had a grandeur and a Blade Runner feel.”
Michael was friendly with his model cast prior to shooting, but they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into upon arriving on set. Evangelista reportedly had to be convinced to participate. And Michael had sent his stars music to learn just days before production began. Turlington recalled to Bazaar that each model largely shot her parts separately. And the scenes were somewhat uncomfortable. “I do remember feeling a little bit like, ‘Oh, why did I get stuck in the tub? I want the big glamour-puss hair. I want to be wearing the heels or blowing cool smoke rings, like Tatjana,” Crawford told Allure. “But if you were working with good people, you just did what they asked.”
Off-camera, however, the vibe on-set was jovial among cast and crew. “We’d drink red wine and sing songs in the evening because it kind of went on late,” hair stylist Guido told Allure. “And George was just like one of the gang, in the trailers, hanging out.”
“Freedom! ’90” would go on to become one of Michael’s signature songs — he performed it at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics — and the video remains a defining moment in MTV’s history. As for Michael bidding farewell to his past as an ’80s pop icon and embracing an uncertain future at the dawn of a new decade, he felt vindicated: “I thought that was a wonderful way to get rid of the image, really… I felt that way,” he told MTV in 2004. “I wanted to get rid of that. I felt like I’d cornered myself again.”
The SUPER MODELS of the FREEDOM VIDEO
The Most BEAUTIFUL GROUP of MOMEN Ever Assembled
on GEOREGE MICHAELS "FREEDOM" Video
A Young GEORGE MICHAEL
The WHAM DAYS
GOD BLESS YOU GEORGE
George Michael and Linda Evangelista on the set of FREEDOM
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Carlos Santana Rob Thomas SMOOTH
CARLOS SANTANA & ROB THOMAS
SMOOTH
WATCH THE VIDEO !!!
CARLOS SANTANA
THE GAME of LOVE
The Great CARLOS SANTANA
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Superstar by The Carpenters Rita Coolidge & Bonnie Bramlett
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DELANEY & BONNIE
Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett
and the Late GREAT Duane Allman
GROUPIE
Written by LEON RUSSELL and BONNIE BRAMLETT
also DELANEY BRAMLETT
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Sung by BONNIE BRAMLETT
WATCH the VIDEO !!!
ERIC CLAPTON
with DELANEY &
MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN
RITA COOLIDGE Sings SUPERSTAR (GROUPIE)
on JOE COCKER'S
BAD DOG ENGLISHMEN
RITA COOLIDGE
SUPERSTAR
KAREN CARPENTER
KAREN CARPENTER
RIP
A number of musicians recorded versions of Leon Russell & Bonnie Bramlett's song GROUPIE, aka SUPERSTAR including: Rita Coolidge, Bonnie Bramlett, and Bett Midler, but no one had such a Monster Hit with the song as did The CARPENTERS featured as the singer.
The late great Leon Russell wrote the song with Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett. Bonnie Bramlett recorded the song she had written, but at the time she was not well known, The Carpenters were hugely popular at they point in time recorded it, naming the song Superstar, and it became a hug hit for the Carpenters.
Most people have never heard other artists versions, but they are wonderful never-the-less.
LEON RUSSELL
THE BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK
"GOT ANY KAHLUA" ?
TRAVELING ???
HOTELS & FLIGHTS WORLDWIDE
FLY with EXPEDIA
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
The GREAT BARRY WHITE
BARRY
BARRY WHITE
"LET The MUSIC PLAY"
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
The LOVE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA
The MAESTRO
"LOVES THEME"
"CAN'T GET ENOUGH of YOUR LOVE BABE"
BIG BAD BARRY
"KANYE CAN'T SHINE BARRY'S SHOE"
BARRY WHITE
"I'VE GOT SO MUCH To GIVE"
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The BADASS COOKBOOK
BADASS RECIPES
BADASS LIKE BARRY
Barry White n Lisa Stansfield Around World
The MAESTRO
BARRY WHITE
BARRY WHITE
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
BARRY WHITE & LISA STANSFIELD
DUET
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
LISA STANSFIELD
MANGIA ITALIANO
Books by DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE on AMAZON.com
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Ike & Tina Turn with Mick Jagger
MICK JAGGER Backstage with IKE & TINA TURNER
MICK JAGGER Playing Robert Johnson on IKE TURNER 'S Guitar
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MICK JAGGER Jamming on Ike Turner 's GUITAR
a Fender Telecaster
The Badass Cookbook
AVAILABLE in Paperback on AMAZON.com
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Beast of Burden Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, & Keith Richards ... The ROLLING STONES
Watch This Video for one of The STONES Best Live Performances ever .. Unfortunately the image quality isn't very good, but Luckily the sound is .. There used to be a better quality video up on Youtube of this particular performance but for whatever reason it was taken down ... This video is of a Stones Concert in Texas 1978 around the time of the release of SOME GIRLS, one of The ROLLING STONES Best Albums of All-Time with such great songs as this Beast of Burden, Some Girls, Miss You, When The Whip Comes Down, Shattered, and The Girl with The Far Away Eyes ... So even though the video quality isn't that great, you can still enjoy watching this great performance by The World's Greatest Rock Band of All-Time, The ROLLING STONES ... Check out MICK jumping all around and dancing up a storm as only Mick can do. And if you're a big guitar fan, check out Keith & Ronnie on their Dueling Les Paul's (Gibson Les Paul Guitars).
MICK & THE BOYS
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