“Let the Day Begin” is a cover of the 1989 song by The Call. An earlier Simple Minds recording was released in May 2009 on the Graffiti Soul bonus (cover) album Searching For The Lost Boys. This new recording features a different arrangement released on the 2014 album Big Hits
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Miss… Neil Peart
Neil Peart was a Canadian musician, songwriter, and author, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush.
Miss… Benjamin Orr
Benjamin Orr was an musician best known as the bassist, co-founder, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band The Cars.
Simple Minds not just “Alive and Kicking”
Being hard of hearing…
In February of 1978 “Big Rock” band Van Halen released their self titled debut studio album “Van Halen”. Among classic hits like “Runnin with the Devil”, “You Really Got Me” and “Jamie’s Cryin”, there was included in the tracks a gem of a guitar solo “Eruption” “Eruption” is an instrumental rock guitar solo performed by … Read more
Chris Cornell covers Prince megahit “Nothing compares 2 U”
When Chris Cornell died last year, he left behind a sweeping and complex recorded legacy: He’d lent his voice to one of the biggest bands in rock (Soundgarden), a successful supergroup (Audioslave), an early Seattle standard-bearer (Temple of the Dog) and countless one-offs, collaborations and solo albums. So summing up his career on a single record — which a new self-titled compilation, out Nov. 16, intends to do — requires skidding across a huge swath of artistic identities and iterations. (For those who’d like to dig deeper, Chris Cornell will be available as both a 17-song album and a 64-song box set, the latter of which includes 11 unreleased tracks. There’ll also be a “super deluxe” box containing a couple dozen additional videos, a hardcover book, lithographs, a turntable mat, a poster, and so on.)
The Devil Lost
On this day in 1979, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” single was certified gold. The single eventually went platinum, and on the day of Charlie’s passing, July 6th, 2020, was the #1 downloaded song on iTunes for all genres of music.
