Showing posts with label Duane Eddy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duane Eddy. Show all posts

Monday, 30 December 2024

Where all the lights will go out one by one


RIP, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, last surviving founding member of The Four Tops

On this Tacky Music Monday, I thought I'd pre-empt my traditional roll-call of the great, the good and the not-so-good who left us this year with a little collection of memories of some of those departed - starting with two that probably don't quite fit the bill of "tacky", but I'm featuring them nonetheless...

Duane Eddy:

Alfa Anderson:

Betty Veldpaus:

Jimmy James:

Martin Lee:

Next up, THE LIST...

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Twang, twang, twang



The fact that it is the birthday today of guitarist Duane Eddy gives me the perfect excuse (if any were needed) to dig this one out of the vaults...

From 1986, here's the masterful Art of Noise (one of Trever Horn's pre-Frankie Goes to Hollywood side-projects) in collaboration with The Twangin' One, and the surprisingly fresh Peter Gunn Theme - with its original video starring Rik Mayall (which I admit, I've never seen before)!


Yee-ha!

Duane Eddy (born 26th April 1938)

The Art of Noise