Almanac Music: Ripper 76 to Patsy Biscoe to The Fonz

Mickey Randall buys his new turntable a house warming gift, and what better gift for a turntable than a Bob Dylan album as Mickey explains.

Almanac Music: The Beatles Best 50 Songs

Smokie takes us on an epic personal journey through his 50 favourite Beatles songs. [With Paul McCartney touring Australia at the moment it is an opportune time to reprise Smokie’s Beatles story. – ED]

Almanac Life: Melbourne’s resurgence

Ian Wilson compares the wellbeing of Melbourne’s social night life with the earlier days of the covid pandemic and can’t help but feel buoyed, while two of the biggest names in the last 70 years of music feature too.

Almanac Book Review: The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney

With Paul McCartney touring locally (for possibly the last time) Kevin Densley’s review of the music man’s monumental, two-volume boxed set, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present is being reprised. Get Back to the words behind the songs before Macca and friends become a Band on the Run home.

Almanac Music: Songs About Dancing

Continuing his extensive series of theme-related music pieces, this week Kevin Densley explores ‘Songs About Dancing.’ As usual, readers are warmly encouraged to add their own choices and comments.

Almanac Music: Catchy

In this Friday’s piece, KD writes about what makes a song catchy, and discusses some of the catchiest songs he knows, then invites Almanackers to put forward ones of their own.

Almanac Life: Ten Personal Favourites

Kevin Densley has hit us with his best shots today; a list of ‘personal favourites’, which might not necessarily equate with the ‘greatest of all-time’, but in many instances are more important, as they tell you something about yourself.

Almanac Music: Extraordinary Musical Moments – Elvis Costello Singing Penny Lane to Paul McCartney

For this Friday’s column, KD has selected as an extraordinary musical moment the time Elvis Costello sang ‘Penny Lane’ to a select White House audience including Barack Obama and Paul McCartney.

Iconic Instants in Music

Mickey Randall with some iconic moments in song by some legendary artists. The Beatles, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Radiohead. Aural intoxicants.

Almanac Music: Fun and Feasting at the Beggars Banquet

Mickey Randall reminisces over The Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet. It may not be one of their most popular albums, but it the most fun album for Mickey.