Category: Music legends

• This cool guy saved Elton John’s life

  

  The “someone” in Elton John’s 1975 hit “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” which was written by Taupin, is Long John Baldry — Sugar Bear in the song.

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  January 11, 2020

  Music legends

  ‘Someone Saved My Life Tonight’, ’Let the Heartaches Begin’, Bernie Taupin, British musicians, Elton John, Linda Woodrow, Long John Baldry, Music legends, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Reg Dwight, Rod Stewart

• Two discordant personalities sang in perfect harmony

  

  Remembering Phil Everly, the son of a Kentucky coal miner, who died on January 3, 2014, at the age of 74. “Your sound, dear Phil, was my model of beauty and charisma when I was 14,” Art Garfunkel said in a tribute at the time. “You guided my musical development, my life. I always saw you up…

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  January 2, 2020

  Music legends

  Art Garfunkel, ‘Bye Bye Love’, ‘Wake Up Little Susie’, Everly Brothers break-up, Everly Brothers Reunion, Phil Everly, The Everly Brothers, Waddy Wachtel

• Janis forever

  

  According to official records, Janis Joplin died 49 years ago today, but don’t believe a word of it. Janis is alive and will live forever.

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  October 4, 2019

  Music legends

  27 Club, ‘Me and Bobby McGee’, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Robert Johnson