Vol X, Issue 02 – The autumn stone (01 Feb 2025)

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Vol X, Issue 2 – The autumn stone (01 Feb 2025)

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Name of song– The autumn stone

Band – Small Faces

Writer– Steve Marriott

Album- In Memoriam

Release year– 1969

The band “Small Faces” is considered as one of the pioneers of influential mod groups to arrive in Britain in the sixties. Formed in 1965 in London by Steve Marriott (Vocals/guitars), Kenney Jones (Drums), Ronnie Lane (Bass/guitars/vocals) and Jimmy Winston (Keyboards), Small Faces truly deserved more than they received. Later in 1966, Jimmy Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan and the band officially took shape. Although, they had a good number of hits like “Lazy Sunday”, “Itchycoo Park”, “All or nothing”, “Tin soldier” with only few early albums, they could never shade away from their mod pop image which frustrated Marriott. Undoubtedly, Steve Marriott was too talented and he could never express fully with “Small Faces” due to perhaps associations with wrong record labels and managers. He finally quit in 1968 to form “Humble Pie” with Peter Frampton. Although Small Faces continued with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, then “Small Faces” officially had changed into “Faces.” Despite Small Faces had short and disturbed career, they had their magnum opus with a classic psychedelic concept album “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake” in 1969 which most people are in awe with. Most music critics acknowledge that they were competitors to “The Who’ and rivals to “The Rolling Stones”!

Vol X, Issue 01 – Come and hold me (01 Jan 2025)

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Vol X, Issue 1 – Come and hold me (01 Jan 2025)

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Name of song– Come and hold me

Band – Fanny

Writers– June Millington, Jean Millington

Album- Fanny

Release year– 1970

Resources – wikipedia.org, allmusic.com

Come and see me

“Fanny” may be an uncommon name for many rock fans of the past and the present. However, this all female American band is considered as one of the first all female bands to be signed by a major label when they were signed by Reprise Records in 1969. Although they had a short lived musical career, they have successfully paved the pathway for later all female bands like “The Runaways”, “The Go Go’s”, “The Bangles” etc. Although they could never get the credit they deserved, they have been highly praised by giants like David Bowie and George Harrison. Regardless of their all female composition, they were always aware that they had to be respected musically and they always strived for their musical skill rather than anything else. And no wonder, today, the rock fans adore them for their musical genius and prowess.

Vol IX, Issue 06 – You’ve taken a hold of me (01 Dec 2024)

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Vol IX, Issue 6 – You’ve taken a hold of me (01 Dec 2024)

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Name of song– You’ve taken a hold of me

Band – Paul Kossoff

Singer- Eddie Baird

Writer– Eddie Baird

Album- Koss

Release year– 1978

Resources– Wikipedia.org

You’ve taken a hold of me

“Paul Kossoff” may be an unknown name for may rock fans. Better known as the lead guitarist for the band “Free”, most ardent rock fans would know that he is considered as one of the most essential blues rock guitarists to emerge in the seventies. Despite being enormously talented, his life was tragically cut short by drug overdose when he died at a tender age of 26 years. Ranked 51 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s “100 Greatest guitarists of All Time”, Kossoff was an amazingly talented guitarists missed by all the rock fans and revered by all blues rock guitarists worldwide.

Vol IX, Issue 05 – Tin Man (01 Nov 2024)

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Vol IX, Issue 5 – Tin Man (01 Nov 2024)

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Name of song– Tin Man

Band- America

Writer– Dewey Bunnell

Album- Holiday

Release year– 1974

Peak chart positions

# 1 – US Billboard Adult Contemporary

# 2 – US Radio and Records

# 4 – US Billboard Hot 100

# 5 – Canadian adult contemporary chart

# 6 – US Cash Box Top 100

# 6 – US Record World

# 7 – Canada RPM Top Singles

Resources– Wikipedia.org

Tin Man

“America”, an acoustic trio, formed in London in late sixties, is an unforgettable soft cum folk cum country rock band of the seventies. They were formed as music loving regular jamming friends in London. All of them were sons of American Air Force personnel, stationed in London, UK. Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley, began performing acoustic harmony melody like Crosby, Still and Nash. The trio gained considerable success with numerous hit singles and memorable tunes for the rock fans to enjoy for decades ahead. “A horse with no name”, “Sister golden hair”, “I need you”, “Ventura Highway”, “Daisy Jane”, “Tin Man”, “You can do magic”, are some of the examples of their musical and lyrical prowess.

Vol IX, Issue 4 – Hard rain fallin’ (01 Sep 2024)

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Vol IX, Issue 4 – Hard rain fallin’ (01 Sep 2024)

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Name of song– Hard rain fallin’

Band- Sir Lord Baltimore

Writers– Mike Appel, Louis Dambra and Jim Cretecos

Album- Kingdome Come

Release year– 1970

Resources– Wikipedia.org

Hard rain fallin’

“Sir Lord Baltimore” may be not a common name in the field of seventies hard rock. Originating as a trio from Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1968, “Sir Lord Baltimore” consisted of John Garner (Drums/vocals), Louis Dambra (Guitars) and Gary Justin (Bass). They were undoubtedly America’s one of the first bona fide heavy metal band. Their music was first cited as “heavy metal” by Creem magazine in 1970 with the release of their debut album “Kingdome Come.” This was proclaimed as the first time the word “heavy metal” was used in the music. Although they were a short lived heavy metal band with only total two albums in their early career (Kingdome Come in 1970 and Sir Lord Baltimore in 1971) and one later album in 2006 as a reunion album, they never got the credit they deserved. However, their music was later rediscovered in the nineties as they became the source for most stoner rock bands of the time.