Originally Posted by
Graham Breeze
Ah The Warehouse concert in 1970. Well no.
It was in 1962 that NME published my article suggesting that Buddy Holly's death (3rd February 1959) was a good career move because, frankly, his career was then heading for the toilet and I feel the same way about Jim Morrison.
If Shakespeare had lived a little later he would, I am sure, have found a way to refer to a bloated "rock god" expiring at 27 in a Paris bath tub from a surfeit, not of lampreys but of drugs. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
?
But New Orleans? Well I've been three times so I kinda like the place (although I love the USA) but one reason why I have a soft spot for it is that it was where the second greatest American songwriter of the rock era grew up.
And so I recommend Dixie Flyer and New Orleans Wins The War off Land Of Dreams by Randy Newman.
