Archive for May, 2010

SPRING INTO SUMMER…with SUNNY NEW CDS

Sunday, May 30th, 2010 · Posted in Hot New Repertoire Releases

As Spring gently gives way to Summer we turn our poetic musings to music – the food of love. Yea verily we have a feast of Repertoire CDs to entertain you over the coming months with a whole batch of cool releases – dudes. Among the highlights will be albums eagerly awaited by fans around the globe from top drawer artists Steve Harley, Snowy White and Alvin Lee.

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LESLIE WEST: ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAN

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week


Leslie West in action always makes exciting viewing, as our latest YouTube clip shows. One of rock’s greatest guitarists and singer/songwriters, Mr. West has long been hailed as a performing legend and his albums with Mountain and West Bruce & Laing are among the hottest in the Repertoire catalogue.

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THE BALLAD OF TONY ASHTON

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week


Who’s that sitting on the top deck of a bus singing his heart out on ‘The Ballad Of The Remo Four?’ Why it’s Tony Ashton, one of the happiest, jolliest and most talented of all great rock musicians. This engaging YouTube clip from the archives shows Tony with his most successful band, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke during their heyday in the Seventies. But they are singing about a group that set them on the road to fame, back in the Beatles era, when The Remo Four were young and full of ambition.

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SONJA MORE OR LESS

Monday, May 10th, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week

SONJA’S LOVELY CURVED AIR CLASSIC

‘Lovely lady reaching, crying for the comfort of the day.’ Feast your eyes and ears on this cool and elegant performance by one of Repertoire’s brightest stars. ‘Melinda (More Or Less’) is a haunting song by the lovely Sonja Kristina, seen here singing and playing in a YouTube ‘live’ performance from 1972. This classic composition is also featured on our new compilation CD ‘Curved Air: Retrospective (Anthology 1970 – 2009)’ (REPUK 1086). A double CD collection, it takes us on a musical journey from early Curved Air works such as ‘Air Conditioning’, Second Album’, ‘Phantasmagoria’,'Air Cut’, ‘Midnight Wire’ and ‘Airborne’ through to the reunion ‘Alive 1990′ reunion concert album.

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Rock journalist Chris Welch has been a member of the Repertoire team for twenty years. He has written hundreds of CD liner notes for a huge range of album releases since joining the company in 1988. His comprehensive knowledge of the rock and pop world is based on a career that began in the Swinging Sixties.

As Features Editor on Melody Maker he wrote about all the major rock and pop groups including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, The Who, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Each week he reported on rising stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Tom Jones, Scott Walker, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel and Jiving K.Boots.

After 40 years Chris is still writing about pop and rock and playing the drums. His current favourite group is Kings of Leon. Each fortnight Chris reminisces about his adventures as a music journalist and reports on the latest news ('Elvis To Tour Shock'), in CHRIS’ CORNER.