By Hans Ebert It’s definitely been because of the erratic behaviour of President Donald Trump, but these last few weeks, a keyword playing over and over again in my head is the one called Tolerance. Trump- it’s almost impossible to call him President- is intolerant and intolerable- a 70-year-old manchild, who seems to be going [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Paul MCCARTNEY’
PRACTICING TOLERANCE IN AN INTOLERABLE WORLD
Posted: 18th May 2017 by We-Enhance in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Music Industry, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: DONALD TRUMP, Ed Sheeran, FourFiveSeconds, Hong Kong jazzsters, Kanye West, Lenny Kravitz, Paul MCCARTNEY, Rihanna, tolerance
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THINKING YOUNG AND GROWING OLDER IS NO SIN
Posted: 27th November 2016 by We-Enhance in MusicTags: Carole King, Dobie Gray, Going Back, Paul MCCARTNEY
By Hans Ebert “Thinking young and growing older is no sin/And I can play the game of life to win.” That’s a line from one of my favourite songs- “Going Back” written by Carole King and then-husband Gerry Goffin, and which I just heard as a demo Freddie Mercury recorded almost as a favour before [...]
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND THE NEED FOR AN EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
Posted: 29th October 2016 by We-Enhance in India Music Market, MUSIC AND POLITICS, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: Ahmet Ertegun, Chris Blackwell, Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss, Paul MCCARTNEY, Radiohead
By Hans Ebert Often- extremely often- one wonders if artists really know what’s happening to their music, and, more often than not, why nothing is happening to their music. Forget about all those travelling First Class with their army of lawyers wearing tight legal briefs and with the firepower to give windburn to anyone in [...]
WHY WE ALL NEED SOMEONE TO LEAN ON
Posted: 23rd August 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: Billy Shears, Carole King, Eleanor Rigby, George Martin, Gerry Goffin, Jimmy Webb, John Lennon, Justin Bieber, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, MAX MARTIN, Paperback Writer, Paul MCCARTNEY, Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Sergeant Peppers, Sexy Sadie, TIN PAN ALLEY
By Hans Ebert I once had a girl or should I say, she once had me. Wait: I once lived with a woman not that long ago who was on Repeat that “no one listens to lyrics anymore”. There have been songwriting partners over the recent years who’ve said the same thing, then change lyrics [...]
SAYING IT IN A SONG
Posted: 6th June 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Love, Love and Music, Music, Music IndustryTags: 10cc, Beyonce, Brian Wilson, Calvin Harris, Chris Martin, ERIC CLAPTON, Jackson Browne, JAMES TAYLOR, Jay-Z, Jimmy Webb, John Lennon, John Mayer, joni mitchell, Leon Russell, Patti Boyd Harrison, Paul Anka, Paul MCCARTNEY, Taylor Swift
By Hans Ebert The news that Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris have broken up will have bookmaker Ladbrokes offering two cents on the dollar that the lady in question will do what she always does: put pen to paper and pour out her innermost feelings about the breakup for public consumption. Remember “Dear John” after [...]
EMBRACING AND GIVING THANKS TO THE MIRACLE OF MUSIC
Posted: 26th May 2016 by We-Enhance in BOB DYLAN, Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: BLAKE SHELTON, Bowie, Cole Porter, Don Henley, DYLAN, Emmylou Harris, ERIC CLAPTON, GWEN STEFANI, JAMES TAYLOR, Jimmy Page, Kanye West, Paul MCCARTNEY, Paul Simon, Perez Hilton, Prince, ROBERT PLANT
By Hans Ebert There’s no other way to put it: We’re all going to die, some before others. And as we face mortality, we start making changes and finalising plans- the obituary, the funeral, how and where you want to lay your weary head, who you want to be beside you, what you want to [...]
MUSIC’S STAR POWER CLUB AND WHO REALLY RUNS IT?
Posted: 4th March 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Music, Music Industry, Music MattersTags: Adele, Blackbird, Bob Dylan, Buffy Saint Marie, Chris Rock, Dave Grohl, GEORGE HARRISON, Joan Baez, Kanye West, Kurt Cobain, Lady Gaga, Marvin Gaye, Paul MCCARTNEY, Pete Seeger, Sam Cooke, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Woody Guthrie
By Hans Ebert It was a pleasant enough cover of “Blackbird” by Dave Grohl at the Oscars, also known as the Chris Rock Show, but listening to it, one couldn’t help wondering why the Academy hadn’t invited the song’s writer and original singer- Paul McCartney- to perform it? As someone said, perhaps they had, and [...]
WHO ARE ROCK’S GREATEST FRONTMEN- AND SHOWMEN?
Posted: 8th January 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, MusicTags: Axl Rose, Beat Boom, Bon Scott, BONO, Brian Jones, Eddie Vedder, ERIC BURDEN, Freddy Mercury, INXS, J Geils, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Let It Bleed, Lindsay Buckingham, Ozzie, Paul MCCARTNEY, Peter Wolf, ROBERT PLANT, Roger Daltrey, the Rolling Stone, THE WHO, Thom Yorke, Ziggy, Ziggy Stardust
By Hans Ebert When forming that first band, there weren’t too many takers for the role of frontman. There might have been a lead singer like a Lennon or a McCartney who played guitars, but to actually have the balls to get out there in front of an audience with only a voice, and, basically, [...]
FOURFIVE SECONDS TO WILDIN’ PERFECTION
Posted: 4th September 2015 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Marketing, Music, Music IndustryTags: Beatles, FourFive Seconds, Kanye West, LED ZEPPELIN, Paul MCCARTNEY, Rihanna
“I like it because she’s being herself.” “She” is Rihanna. and my friend Jenny is trying to answer my question as to why the video for “FourFive Seconds” has so many drawn to it, including myself. In my book of greatest music videos of a Feel Good nature, it’s right up there with the amazing [...]