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Yesterday, 4th January, Gerry Rafferty died aged 63 following a long battle with alcoholism that left him being admitted to a hospital in Bournemouth last November with liver failure.
Gerry Rafferty began his music career in a folk group with comedian Billy Connolly as The Humblebums.  They split when Connolly’s comedy became a more prominent part [...]

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Ultimate Boogie Nights present a triple header Christmas show featuring some of the pioneers of hip hop, disco and funk at the Indigo2 on December 17th.
Topping the bill are The Sugar Hill Gang in their original formation, the trio are credited with being the band that bought rapping into the mainstream with their 1979 single [...]

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The assocaition between the BBC and Status Quo stretches back almost 45 years beginning with some recordings of The Spectres in 1966 before the band changed their name to Status Quo.
It was two years later when Status Quo peformed their psychedelic inspired Pictures Of Matchstick Men at the beeb in 1968 for The Dave Symonds [...]

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Launched by The Beatles in 1968 as an outlet for their own recordings as well as hoping to break new artists from various musical genres, Apple Records was responsible for introducing artists such as James Taylor, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin, Jackie Lomax, Doris Troy and Billy Preston.
All of the artists were personally brought to the Apple [...]

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Apple Corps Ltd and EMI have announced the immediate release of The Beatles original 1973 compilations, 1962-1966 (‘Red’) and 1967-1970 (‘Blue’), digitally remastered for CD for worldwide distribution.
Red’ and ‘Blue’ have been remastered by the same dedicated team of engineers at EMI Music’s Abbey Road Studios responsible for remastering The Beatles’ original UK studio albums, [...]

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