Beat Street

Beat Street




The column where Elvis answers your music queries.... Thank you, thank you very much

July 5 - 12, 2006
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Calling Elvis,
I actually have two questions and both involve titles. First up can you tell me how the Who managed to come up with the song title Baba O’Riley? And does 10cc actually have narcotic insinuations?





The GW reader’s music box

July 5 - 12, 2006
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Dave Nunnally, Public Affairs Officer
What was the first album you ever bought?
I didn’t really buy it, but I borrowed my brother’s copy of The Eagle’s Hotel California in 1976.  He left it in my parent’s stereo – I don’t think I ever gave it back.





What on earth happened to...

July 5 - 12, 2006
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Eric Carmen
Hot track: All By Myself
Year: 1976
Chart Position: 12
Eric Carmen started off as a member of the influential power pop outfit the Raspberries.





Billboard charts

July 5 - 12, 2006
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Current Position, Last Week
1, new, The Big Bang
, , Busta Rhymes





The reviews

July 5 - 12, 2006
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Adieu False Heart
Linda Ronstadt, Ann Savoy
Vanguard Records
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This teaming of Linda Ronstadt and Cajun folk traditionalist Ann Savoy, billing themselves as the Zozo Sisters, shows how wide is the musical range of bittersweetness.





Branded for life

July 5 - 12, 2006
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It worked for Arctic Monkeys; it worked for Sandi Thom.





The real deals and the over-hyped

July 5 - 12, 2006
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Believe the hype
Robert Johnson
Mississippi bluesman whose legend continues to this day, based on the story that he “sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads” in return for good tunes.