David Bowie ebook now out

Now published: Rockopedia – 50 David Bowie Facts eBook on the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store http://bit.ly/50bowiefacts You can get it free if you can answer this question: Who invented the instrument Bowie played on Space Oddity? Continue reading →

New on Kindle: 50 David Bowie Facts

I have just uploaded my David Bowie book to Amazon. It should be available online within a few hours, price $0.99 (or your currency equivalent). ♦ Oops! I’ve uploaded the wrong cover image to Amazon and I can’t change it until it’s been published. Above is the correct one! Answer this question and you could get … Continue reading →

Get Beatles for Free!

Well . . . almost. You need to be an Amazon Prime subscriber – but you can get 30 days free HERE. The Beatles on Amazon: Help! [Blu-ray] [1965] Please Please Me Help! Let It Be The Beatles 50th Anniversary Box Set A Hard Day’s Night Beatles For Sale Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Box … Continue reading →

From Monday, May 4, for 5 days only . . .

. . . all my Kindle books are FREE! PS: Ignore the prices in the images below. That’s what they’ll cost after this free promotion ends on May 8 ♥ Go to Amazon UK to download any of these free ebooks (also downloadable from other national Amazon systems). ♥ Here’s a reminder: This promotion ends on May … Continue reading →

Upcoming Pink Floyd ebook

√  Check out Floydiana on Amazon UK My Pink Floyd book, Bricks in the Wall, has long been out of print, and anyway the publisher made a real mess of it, misprints, uncorrected proofs etc, before they went (deservedly!) out of business. I’m now close to finishing the ebook successor, Pink Floyd – the final … Continue reading →

Joe Cocker RIP

From my memoir on the karldallas.com website (written in 2001): People look wide-eyed when I reminisce about what Bob Dylan or Miles Davis or Jim Morrison or Phil Ochs might have said to me, but the real memories I treasure are the walking wounded who are still going — if not strong, then soldiering on. … Continue reading →

Ambient Floyd deserves my 5 stars

While it is very different from past Floyds, closer in some ways to the ambient music of Gavin Bryars, it’s also still recognisably them and I have given it five stars. If this is their final chorus, it’s a good way to go. You can buy the set from Amazon UK at http://bit.ly/BuyFloydRiver. A fuller review … Continue reading →

Billie Holiday Swing Easy session – Preview

The Swing Easy show on BCB Radio, 8-9pm GMT on Tuesday July 22, will be devoted to the music of Lady Day – Billie Holiday. Lady is the blues She kind of drags her words behind the beat in a way impossible to imitate (thank God) and she messes with the tune the way a horn-player … Continue reading →

Dave Gilmour interview, 1995

Karl Dallas, Rock’s Backpages Audio, 19 May 1995 The Floyd guitarist talks about family life; playing guitar; the state of the band; making the live album and video; working with Storm Thorgerson, and political and social issues in his life and songs: Continue reading →

Come back tomorrow . . .

… for the best and worst of 2013. Next day for 2014 hopes and fears. Happy New Year! Though the images in the slideshow above may not all come from the past year, they are all relevant to what happened during that year for me. Continue reading →