Throughout the history of popular music there have been fears it could turn gullible young groovers into anarchic drug-crazed sexual deviants. Britain’s Most Dangerous Songs, BBC 2014
The story of banned records is the story of the rise of the teenager. ibid.
Written by singer Ray Davies, Lola is about a relationship between a man and a woman, who turns out to be a transvestite. More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On, BBC 2014
The Sex Pistols’ debut single Anarchy in the UK was banned following their controversial appearance on the TV news programme Today. ibid.
The northern soul phenomenon was the most exciting underground British club movement of the 1970s. In its heyday white working class youths from the north of England travelled hundreds of miles across the region to dance to obscure black American soul records to the break of dawn. Northern Soul: Living For the Weekend, BBC 2014
Rare vinyl fever was reaching epic proportions. ibid.
Northern soul is attracting a whole new generation. ibid.
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. I Samuel 7:10
Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in writing: rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their habitations. Ecclesiasticus 44:5
Robert Nesta Marley was born on 6th February 1945. Marley 2012 starring Bob Marley, director Kevin Macdonald
‘It became known as reggae but it started off as Ska.’ ibid. Chris Blackwell, founder Island Records
The Wailers’ first single Simmer Down was released in 1964. ibid.
1964: A Teenager In Love – The Wailers had numerous top ten hits in Jamaica but were still unknown abroad. ibid.
Bob had eleven children from seven different relationships. ibid.
Bob died on 11th May 1981. He was 36 years old. ibid.
‘I don't really have no ambition, you know. I only have one thing I’d really like to see happen: I’d like to see mankind live together.’ ibid. Bob
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on for ever. Bob Marley
We’re jamming. I want to jam it with you. We’re jamming. Jamming. And I hope you like jamming too. Bob Marley, song Jamming
I was manager of Zodiac Productions ... The largest music conglomerate in the world ... I said, ‘Do they still take the Master [tape] to the Temple Room?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘Do they still conjure demons into the Master?’ He said, ‘Of course.’ ‘Now,’ I said, ‘I gotta know something. What is the main reason for Rock Music?’ He said ... ‘So that we can place spells on people that we couldn’t cast spells upon.’ John Todd
Prison governor: What is it you want now?
Charles Bronson: Music. Bronson 2008 starring Tom Hardy & Matt King & James Lance & Amanda Burton & Kelly Adams & Juliet Oldfield & Jonathan Phillips & Mark Powley & Hugh Ross & Joe Tucer & Gordon Brown et al, director Nicolas Winding Refn
You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. Charlie Parker
The piano ain’t got no wrong notes. Thelonious Monk
I don’t consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can’t develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don’t have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself. Thelonious Monk
Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way – through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all. John Coltrane
All a musician can do is get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. John Coltrane
There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... The only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it’s successful; if it doesn’t it has failed. Duke Ellington, cited Where Is Jazz Going? Music Journal 1962
All music is folk music. Louis Armstrong
I believe that all people are in possession of what might be called ‘a universal music mind’. Bill Evans
Technique is the ability to translate your ideas into sound through your instrument. This is a comprehensive technique ... a feeling for the keyboard that will allow you to transfer any emotional utterance into it. What has to happen is that you develop a comprehensive technique and then say, Forget that. I’m just going to be expressive through the piano. Bill Evans
Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music, and I would begin to worry about my writing if such a person began to really like it. My music is alive and it’s about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It’s angry, yet it's real because it knows it’s angry. Charles Mingus, letter to Miles Davis cited Downbeat 1955
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. Hunter Thompson
Music washes away the dust of everyday life. Art Blakey
My people are American, my time is today ... Music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times. George Gershwin, cited Merle Armitage ‘Accent on America’ 1944
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself ... Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. George Gershwin, cited Isaac Goldberg ‘Tin Pan Alley’ 1930
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz. Lou Reed
In a way, the history of jazz’s development is a small mirror of classical music’s development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. Mike Figgis
Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. Branford Marsalis
I’m all in favour of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of scotch. Pepper Adams
We got both kinds. We got Country and Western. The Blues Brothers 1980 starring John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd & Steve Cropper & Donald Duck Dunn & Murphy Dunne & Willie Hall & Matt Murphy & Carrie Fisher & Ray Charles & John Candy & Aretha Franklin & Twiggy & James Brown & Henry Gibson et al, director John Landis, lady behind bar of Bob’s Country Bunker
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make. Steven Patrick Morrissey
The two great musicians of the eighteenth century – Bach and Handel. Kenneth Clark, Civilisation 9/13: The Pursuit of Happiness, BBC 1969
That’s what music is – entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it. Kurt Cobain
I definitely think he’s going to have a musical side, you know with Dave being a DJ and everything. The Royle Family s3e1, Denise, BBC 2000
All of our success came from the records. Only Yesterday: The Carpenters, Richard, BBC 2014
Karen could walk in and just er a lot of these things sing in one take. ibid.
By 1975 the constant touring and studio work had taken their toll on Karen’s health with visible effect. ibid.
Karen Carpenter dead at 32. ibid. newspaper headline 4th February 1983