Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2025 brings you and the world joy and peace.

#HappyNewYear

Wanna know about the history of Christmas?🎄

Here is a thread of five funny podcasts I’ve done on different bits of Christmas history
(Uh… Christory?!)

We’ll start with the classic… BIZARRE VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS! (This was my undergrad dissertation) artuk.org/discover/sto...

This is just astonishing. Incredibly clever and all on a single guitar.

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The genius of Jimi Hendrix on an astonishing piece of music. He may have revolutionised the electric guitar but this is just beautiful and one of if his finest songs.

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This is pretty fabulous from Chickenfoot. Joe and the band are absolutely on fire.....this has as much energy as DP in their pomp.

Joe really is an astonishing guitarist.

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This could well be the best cover of all time.

Dino, Mike and Joel did this during lockdown and the pandemic and it's just phenomenal. Dino sings, plays bass and does keyboards. Joel is as great as always but the highlight has to be Mike Portney on the cownlbell!

Enjoy!

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Bad Company was always a special band and Shooting Star shows them at their very best.

Simply fabulous and Paul Rodgers is as smooth as ever vocally.

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A classic from Whitesnake and one of my very, very favourite songs. Fool For Your Loving recorded during the sound check and concert of my first time seeing Whitesnake back in 1980 at the Rainbow Theatre London. Many, many fond memories. Enjoy!

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An excellent version of this Rainbow classic from Brian May with the late great Cozy Powell on drums and Neil Murray on bass.

This version is an absolute stonker!!

#ClassicRock

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For your Sunday perusal.......a phenomenal live version of Difficult to Cure from the final Rainbow show in Japan in March 1984 (with a full orchestra) before Ritchie joined the reformed Deep Purple. Totally mesmerising from start to finish.

#RitchieBlackmore

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For your Saturday listening....a live version of a track off the first Rainbow album called Temple of the King from 1995 by the iteration of the band Ritchie Blackmore reformed after he quit Purple. The guitar playing is just astonishing and it's an outstanding version.

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If you love Thin Lizzy then this is ten minutes of fabulousness on a Friday night...

#ThinLizzy #GaryMoore

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Any lovers of Monty Python out there?

#MontyPython

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Since X has become so toxic trying things out here as well as Threads so hello Bluesky!!!!