Friday, 5 September 2025

Eternamente


Pablo Milanés (1943-2022) was a Cuban composer and singer, well known mostly in Latin countries. He was married six times. For his second wife, Yolanda Benet (of French ancestry) he composed the famous love song "Yolanda" when Lynn, the first of their three daughters, was born in 1970. Their marriage only lasted five years. However, a profound friendship between them was shown publicly mostly during Pablo's last years of life, when he was fighting against his terminal disease. 
Lynn, as some of Pablo's nine children, became a singer.
Here's "Yolanda" performed by Pablo and his companion Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. Silvio and Pablo were leaders of the Cuban musical movement Nueva Trova, started in 1967 and fading by the late 70's. 



Tuesday, 2 September 2025

spectre


This is how could be the opening of the 24th 007 James Bond film "Spectre" with this song from Radiohead, 10 years ago.

Thursday, 28 August 2025

Patrick Watson and Charlotte Cardin


Gordon in the Willows.
From the forthcoming album "Uh Oh", to be released next September 26, 2025.


And a wonderful concert in the snow, singing: The Great Escape, Gordon in the Willows (again), Melody Noir, Next to You, Je te laisserai des mots. Enjoy :)


Wednesday, 27 August 2025

here she comes now



"Here She Comes Now" a 1967 song from Velvet Underground, here brilliantly performed by Nirvana, recorded in studio in 1990 and live in 1991.

Sunday, 24 August 2025

Blondie, 50 years ago.


50 years ago, at CBGBs on August 15, 1975, Debbie Harry (then 30 years old) and her punk band Blondie, performed this concert presenting a cover of Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale".
I also included in this selection the following song, "Lullaby". This song was remade later with other lyrics and renamed "Just Go Away". It was included in Blondie's third studio album "Parallel Lines", released on September 8, 1978.