Wednesday, August 24, 2011

GERRY RAFFERTY: RIGHT DOWN THE LINE


It seems reasonable to draw this to people's attention, since its subject was a key part of an influential if short period of my life. I haven't seen any advance version but I think it includes some use of a photograph of Gerry and his producer Hugh Murphy that I took in a small studio in Worthing in 1980  -  they were there co-producing Richard and Linda Thompson, if memory serves. Right Down the Line will be shown on BBC 4 TV later.

5 comments:

  1. Lord Alfred12:17 am

    Michael

    On another point entirely a link to an obituary of the great Jerry Lieber, whose death does not seem to have been noted here:

    http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2090145,00.html

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  2. Anonymous4:56 am

    MIchael, I thought you might be interested in this blog post by cartoonist Kim Deitch.
    http://www.tcj.com/part-8-the-sixties/
    Large mention of the Stones, bits on Bloomfield, Blind Willie McTell, and others.
    A few of the earlier posts might interest you as well. One deals mostly with Elvis.

    patrick ford

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  3. Thanks to you both for these links: both interesting.

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  4. Michael, Here is a menu to the previous posts in the series.
    http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/mad-about-music/
    Considerable Elvis content in posts four and five, and in the comments for those posts.

    patrick ford

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  5. Anonymous11:02 pm

    MIchael, By way of the blog posts I sent along there are two other very interesting links which came up. A really exceptional article on Stagger Lee, and an equally great piece of research on Harry Pace.
    http://www.planetslade.com/stagger-lee1.html
    http://www.planetslade.com/black-swan-blues1.html

    patrick ford

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