A Mixed Bag of Music...

Firstly, I would like to apologise for the lack of posts this week.  I have been out of the country, and although I had hoped to carry on as normal, it just didn't happen.

Anyway, with today being 30th October, here are three offerings of music - completely different genres, I must add - that all have associations with this very day.

We start with a familiar performer, with a maybe not-so-familiar song!  In his early days, David Bowie came up with some rather good - and rather different (from his later, more popular stuff) - recordings.  The connection with 30th October is that, twenty years ago today, Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Here is "When I Live My Dream".

Next we have some classical music from the 20th Century.  A while back, I made a post on the anniversary of the death of English composer, Peter Warlock.  Well, Warlock (real name Philip Heseltine) was born in London, on this very day in 1894.  Here is his well-known song-cycle, The Curlew (based on the poems of W.B. Yeats) from the early 1920's.

We finish with something definitely more modern!  From the new wave/punk rock era, The Jam were one of the greatest British bands, led by the genius that is Paul Weller.  It was on this day in 1982, that Weller announced that The Jam were disbanding.  Here is their superb cover of the Kinks' classic, David Watts.