Magic Bus

It is now possible to win a "Magic Bus"!
Enter the competition for just £5 and you'll make a contribution to "Teenage Cancer Trust" at the same time. The bus is signed by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend!

Check it out!

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BMI Film/TV Composer Award

This gala evening, it was handed out a total of 80 BMI Crystals. Pete Townshend was awarded three of them, which made him go home with the most crystals this evening. He was awarded for his (The Who's) opening themes to "CSI", "CSI: NY" and "CSI: Miami". As you may know, the opening themes are "Who Are You", "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again".

Read more here!


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Bonham and Starr top drum album list!

The list is called "The 50 Greatest Drum Albums" and was published by Rythm magazine earlier this year. In the first place you find the Led Zeppelin album "Led Zeppelin IV" and drummer John Bonham, followed by The Beatles' "Abbey Road and drummer Ringo Starr, in 2nd place.

Led Zeppelin actually got five albums in the top 50 and The Beatles got three!



Top 5

#1 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Drummer: John Bonham

#2 The Beatles – Abbey Road (1969)
Drummer: Ringo Starr

#3 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti (1975)
Drummer: John Bonham

#4 Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
Drummer: Dave Grohl

#5 Miles Davis – Nefertiti (1967)
Drummer: Tony Williams

The whole list here!

I also found this article about the list!

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13 Reasons To Give Ringo Starr some respect!

I have many times talked to people about the "Pete Best/Ringo Starr phenomenon". Some of them has said that Ringo was lucky, that Pete Best was a lot better drummer. They have also said that Ringo Starr was The Beatles weakest link, that he didn't really know how to drum and that he often got out of tempo. These people don't have a clue of what they're talking about.

If you get into the same discussion it will now be easy to refer to this list:

13 Reasons To Give Ringo Starr Some Respect.

"This is an excellent list of thirteen reasons given by John Bryant (a session drummer who has played with artists such as Ray Charles) why Ringo Starr was much more than “an average drummer,” as he is often labelled by music critics.

Always serving the song without showing off, Ringo was an integral and indipensible part of The Beatles. Ringo’s intuitive feel and creative big beat style continues to be hugely influential to contemporary musicians of diverse musical genres, whether they realize it or not. His feel was so consistent and solid that even the drum parts he played for songs in odd time signatures seem simpler than they truly are. Many technically great drummers could never hope to reproduce Ringo’s distinctive style."

George Harrison: "Playing without Ringo is like driving a car on three wheels."

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Won't Get Fooled Again

This is a clip with The Who performing Won't Get Fooled Again, in my opinion one of the greatest rock songs ever! Please notice the contrast between Townshend and Entwistle in this clip. I Think it's kind of fun. Keith Moon, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend go crazy like always but John Entwistle is just standing there, (as usual).

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who


I had the priviledge to se Daltrey and Townshend live last summer. It was amazing!

//Ednel