pink moon, 50 years

We'll have the greatest 2022's full moon tomorrow, 13 of July. Not a pink moon, but a super buck moon.
Pink Moon (I posted it here on KoM 12 years ago) is the name of a song and also the title of the last album of Nick Drake, released on 1972, 50 years ago.
Nick Drake was a great composer but a shy, introverted and withdrawn person afraid of acting in a country having world stars like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bowie, etc. Very little known even in UK, he became finally known worldwide because of this commercial made by Alan Pafenbach to promote the Volkswagen Golf Cabrio in 1999:
I would never post a commercial and that's not the target of this blog. However, and besides of being a great example of a very good commercial, it had this side effect of kicking Nick Drake to his deserved global attention. The song was released as a single precisely on the year 2000, one year after the VW commercial.
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Other songs from the album Pink Moon, Place To Be and Things Behind The Sun:

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very lovely song from Goon, a very little known indie band from LA. This song is from the upcoming album 'Hour of Green Evening' available next Friday.

Have a lovely Saturday :)

"Saturday Pt. 2" is a Ty Segall's new song from his forthcoming album "Hello, Hi" to be released on July 22, 2022.

50 years of Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" is a monumental song. It opens pure, strong and it grows like a Beethoven symphony. Jon Lord gives it a Baroque touch, Blackmore sings with his guitar, and baritone Gillan sings Rock 'n' Roll. And Glover and Paice join everything in a bluesy-jazzy jam mostly strong, but delicate when needed. What a fantastic band, what a fantastic song. Nowadays, it's hard to believe that these guys were pioneers of what would be classified as Hard-Rock and Heavy Metal.
Below, a videoclip joining several live footage from 1972 to 1973 and very well sound mixed:

Jon Lord says at the minute 8 of this documentary below, "we were not a singles band" and @ 8:30 "we send it (the album Machine Head) to Warner Brothers ... with the indication that "Never Before" would be the single ... we honestly didn't think that "Smoke on the Water" was a hit material ... how wrong can you be?"
As told in this documentary, this song tells a well known story about a disaster happened on December 1971. The song was included in the albums "Machine Head" and "Made in Japan" both released on 1972. "Smoke on The Water" was released as a single only on the year after with both versions, the studio and the live in Japan.

Finally, here's the band performing at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, on August 17th, 1972. It is a great performance but not the sublime version recorded (but not filmed) at Osaka on 15 August 1972 and included in the album "Made in Japan", one of the greatest live albums of all time, where live versions are better than the studio recordings. It was the first live and double album I bought :)

the haughty kite bird wounded on the wing

Porto, is a very ancient city built on a riverside's slope by the end of Douro river.
Carlos Tê, a very romantic poet, returning to his majestic old city and watching it crossing the river, compared that view to a haughty kite bird* wounded on the wing (altivez de milhafre ferido na asa) and he wrote this soulful poem. Rui Veloso transformed it into this beautiful song in fado style**.

This video was recorded by me only 4 hours ago. The live performance of this song is always a very touching moment for the public and for the artists.
Notes:
* A kite bird (milhafre) from Porto area is similar to a big falcon.
** Fado is a Portuguese music style but Rui Veloso is a bluesman.