What ho.... sed de ting!
Welcome to "not alot of people know that, part 5." Yes, you lot out there, ah you're so
lucky again! How can you be getting so lucky, my God! Flight of Icarus in those grubby
dirty by now horribly sticky little fingers and hands and grubby palms, and oh what else is
grubby, I don't know. Flight Of Icarus, I've Got The Fire! Wooo, I have right now thinking
about this, oh my goodness the memories for this, my very first exotic jaunt over to the
island of Jersey, followed by a swift little airplane ride 3000 kilometres due...east of
ah...well no, no, got that wrong, due west of Watford. My goodness, I go the wrong way
and get to bleedin Russia, it'd be all over. Yes, due west of Watford, 3000 odd bloody
miles -- forget this kilometre stuff, where do you think you are, bleedin France? No
thanks very much, I'm right here!
Anyway, Flight of Icarus, doo dee doo! Flight Of Icarus, my first single, released the 11th
of April 1983, chart position number eleven...da de de da! Didn't quite get to number ten,
did it? Anyway, my first record with the band...I starred in the video! Did you see that?
Did you see that handsome geezer with the blue chops? Wasn't half cold out there!
Anyway no! We did this...ah, fantastic! First trip to Jap... uh... from Jersey to Nassau to
do the album, we had five weeks rehearsal in Jersey....well, we had two weeks really
because ended up three weeks partying at the bar. My goodness, we had the only
24-hour bar on the island, and we ah...funnily enough we managed to cram 25 hours in a
day, hahaha! So there we are, fifteen days before we're supposed to leave....fifteen
days! We hadn't even written any...well, the boys had written some....but we really
hadn't rehearsed anything cause we was partying to much and having a good time, and
all that good stuff. So there you are, we get this....most of the song's written, get to
Jersey, boom!
Oh, by the way, when we first arrived in Jersey, the first place we went to was a place
called The Traveller's Rest. Dear Tony Wiggins our tour manager, he told us all about this
place because he checked it out before us. Said "here look, you've got to come in this
place before we go" and that's the first thing we did, got of the plane, picked the
suitcase up, "HILLO!" they said, "HOWWYOU!", "we're fine", "Ok you can come through".
So we go through, get in the cabs...off we go, Traveller's Rest. Stopped in the
Traveller's Rest. "You've gotta have a banana daquery" says Tony Wiggens. Well allright,
lets have a drop.. banana juice... we says, banana juice... it's a poof's drink! So, fair
enough, so there we are sitting at the bar, and there's five poofs sitting at the bar, us!
Hahaha! Drinking these daqueries. Hahaha, no! So, the first one goes down, we thought
"f'king great, nothing to it, lets have another one!" F'king second one goes down...
fifteen minutes later we're on our third banana daquery. Now, we're talking serious
alcohol here but you don't taste it because it's a frozen drink, it's bunged in a blender,
loads of ice, ton of banana liqueur, na...banana, lot of lichee, and lots of wizzing around
of varous parts, and you stick it in a glass and stuff it up with a straw. For about...three
of these as I said later, ...quarter of an hour goes by ... half an hour, we try to stand up
and leave. I mean, it was like, you know, "Gaaaahh, where we goin?" Ah, we were gone!
We, we, we spent many a night down in that place, but only after an hour...we did have
a party after we actually recorded Flight of Icarus... we went down to the pub and ah,
tried to get it and gave up. The next day it weren't happening, but we went after we
celebrated... we went out and celebrated the first single being recorded.
But just before we did this, recorded the song. Steve said to me, he said, "don't you
think we ought to speed it up a bit?" I said, "Yeah, I think it should be a bit faster." And
Dave and H....um, Bruce and H, sorry, had written this song. And they were like very
adamant about the tempo of this thing, they didn't want it sort of speeding up or
anything like this. So 'Arry said "play it a bit faster." I said "yes, I'll nuts it up, don't
worry" So we get in the studio and rehearsed it, we done it once or twice and it was,
you know, happening. But not so...f'king hell, I'll boost it up a tad... I'll pump it... you
know. So I'm out there, "boom do do da do do doom do do da! do do doom..." you know,
allright we go... hah! and ah Bruce, Dave and H going "aah Nick, what you.. f'king...
what'd you doing?" You know, I said "Nothing!", and I thought to myself, "Ah there we
go, the new boy in the band, and they think he's only been in the band f'king two
months and he's speeding everything up, you know." Anyway, as it turned out, it's great,
wasn't it? It was really a good song.
So, they asked me to do the video. So out we are, and they said, "look do you want to
do the video? You can be the old man in it." I said, "Old man? Look here, look here who
do you think you're talking to... old man! Give us a break!" They said, "well you are,
aren't ya." F'king cheek! Swift kick up the jackseat for that! ah boof! That gave them
one right up the bum, didn't it? So there I am, I'm out there, they said...I said, allright I'll
do the video. And they said, yeah but ahhh.....we gotta blue your chops. I said "what?"
They said, "we gotta put blue makeup on your face." I said, "you can piss off! I ain't
having none of that!" They said, "You f'king will, if you wanna star in the video!" Neeah!
So there! You wanna do it or not? I thought, "well....f'king 'ell, I am the new boy, and I
should do it really, it'll be a bit fun." And it was, it turned out to be the most amazing...
fun... I tell ya, we really had a good time. Couple of dodgy moments when I was standing
on the edge of this little cliff looking down at the...or looking out to the ocean. The wind
was blowing, no the wind. I mean, I was (farting noise) as well, certainly, but
nevertheless. It was... I was crying a lot of that, sixty... fifty... sixty feet down to the
ocean! F'king great big waves rolling in there, I mean I only needed to fall over and that
was it! Goodbye, no f'king Icky to help me out with the wings....c'mon dad, watch this!
Anyway, that leads me on to I've Got The Fire, which is on the b-side as you know, of
Flight Of Icarus. Now, for you boys and girls out there who've been paying attention and
doing your homework, and buying the first, second, third, and fourth box set of the new
singles, et cetera, or the old new singles. I've Got The Fire was recorded on the very
very first Maiden single which was Running Free, now we've already talked about that.
But the boys decided to do it. Steve said, "I'd like to have the penultimate... or not the
penultimate, the definive... de... DEFINITIVE version of this, studio version wise, lets do
it again." So that's why we bunged that one on the Icarus single.
Now moving on slowly but surely to The Trooper. Now that's a great old.... oh man,
that's a song to play, man! (hums and drums in the background).... All that, yeah! Gosh!
Bringing back some.... I wanna go out and do it. Based on a charge of the light brigade!
Watch out! My goodness, woah, never has there been so many to fight so few! Or
whatever, I don't know, that was Winnie, the wrong one. Aces High, that's coming up
next kids. Yeah, well that's you know, in the next box set if you go out and buy it, you'll
hear it on the next "Nicko's uuh, you didn't know... you know not a lot of people knew
that..." Right? Number six I guess it'll be then. But an
Iron Maiden were one of the foremost bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a late-70s reaction to the demise of heavy metal pioneers like Black Sabbath. They went on to sell over 100 million records in a long career that established them as all-time greats of the genre.
Desde los primeros días del cine, la música ha sido una parte esencial de la experiencia cinematográfica. La música en películas puede crear emociones, realzar escenas, y transportar a los espectadores a mundos imaginarios.
El 22 de agosto es un día especial para los fanáticos de la música en todo el mundo, ya que marca el cumpleaños de una de las estrellas pop más brillantes y talentosas de nuestra época: Dua Lipa
El Caribe, esa región de belleza paradisíaca y diversidad cultural, es también la cuna de algunos de los géneros musicales más emocionantes y entrañables del mundo.
En un movimiento que sacudió la industria musical, Universal Music Group ha anunciado recientemente la adquisición de Chabaka Music
La música es un lenguaje universal que trasciende barreras culturales y lingüísticas. Puede emocionarnos, inspirarnos y, lo que es más importante, ayudarnos a aprender un nuevo idioma de una manera divertida y efectiva.
Madrid ofrece una amplia gama de géneros musicales que deleitan a lugareños y visitantes por igual. Con una escena musical diversa y vibrante, Madrid es un destino imprescindible para los amantes de la música.
La Music Session 53 fue un evento musical que reunió a varios artistas reconocidos de la música latina en el año 2018. Entre ellos, destacaron Shakira y Gerard Piqué, quienes realizaron una presentación memorable que dejó al público emocionado y maravillado.
Afinar una guitarra es importante para poder tocar correctamente y para que los acordes suenen bien.
La catalana amante de los ritmos andaluces por fin está a punto de volver. Dos años y medio después de su último disco "El mal querer" en 2018, con el que ganó los Grammy, Rosalía vuelve a la escena.
Todos esperábamos un reinicio diferente, en un año más indulgente después de que acababan de pasar los dos últimos, pero no ha sido así, al contrario, la variante Omicron está entrando con cada vez más fuerza en Europa, soplando sobre el tenue
El disco fue lanzado el 18 de junio y se llama "Peace or love", contiene 11 temas muy refinados que se transforman lánguidos y agradables
Es un día precioso para los melómanos, se ha hecho oficial el anuncio que todos esperábamos desde hace año y medio. El Primavera Sound tiene fechas, line up confirmadas y hay sorpresas realmente grandes y muy agradables.
Phil Harvey, gerente de Coldplay, convocó a los fans de la banda a través de una publicación en Twitter. El tema del mensaje es la canción "Viva la vida", un gran éxito y un eslogan de la banda.
Con motivo del décimo aniversario de su muerte, la BBC ha decidido dedicar una película a la artista titulada "Amy Winehouse: 10 años después".
Todos los artistas de las categorías que competirán por los Oscar 2021, que se celebrarán los días 25 y 26 de abril, han sido elegidos y anunciados oficialmente.
Los Grammy Awards, uno de los eventos musicales más debatidos, acaba de finalizar, por lo tanto es ahora que se pueden examinar los mejores y peores momentos de la velada, me gustaría empezar por estos últimos, para dejarnos lidiando con temas más agradables.
Con cada disco nos ha acostumbrado a un nuevo peinado y un cambio de estilo, en este caso eligió un pelo corto rubio platino que se remonta a los años 70.
Regresó con un disco difícil y no de por el sonoro, sino emocionalmente. Jane Birkin está preparando su decimocuarto LP y ha decidido presentarse con todas sus flaquezas y debilidades.
Para los estadounidenses es el evento más esperado del año, el Super Bowl siempre brinda grandes emociones, no solo a los fanáticos del fútbol americano
A la muy joven edad de 34 años, Sophie, cantante, DJ y productora nos dejó. Falleció a raíz de un accidente ocurrido en Atenas a las cuatro de la mañana del 30 de enero.
Van Morrison, el cantautor norirlandés ha decidido emprender acciones legales contra el departamento de salud de Irlanda del Norte y contra la prohibición que establece la obligación de no poder hacer conciertos indoor.
El último álbum de Janis Joplin Pearl fue lanzado el 11 de enero de 1971. Fue el último álbum inédito publicado póstumamente, en octubre de 1970 se encontró el cuerpo sin vida de la cantante en un motel de Los Ángeles.
Con una declaración de muy pocas palabras, Nick Cave nos hizo saber que está de regreso en el estudio con Warren Ellis para hacer un disco llamado Carnage.
Ya lo habíamos hablado hace unas semanas, ahora están listos los resultados del experimento que el Primavera Sound, la asociación para la lucha contra el sida y las enfermedades infecciosas y el hospital German Trias i Pujol de Badalona realizaron el pasado 12 de diciembre en la sala Apolo de Barcelona.