Next to the rocking horse at Pain d’Epice in Passage Jouffroy, Paris (1979 & 2022)
Rock Dreams was (and is) an amazing illustrated coffee-table book that was published in 1970 and 1973 featuring unforgettable iconic and mythmaking portraits of musicians, bands and singers (mostly rock stars) including Elvis, Dylan, The Rolling Stones and almost anyone else you can think of from Chubby Checker to Joe Cocker – from Tina Turner to Diana Ross – from The Beach Boys to The Kinks and on and on. This book also included portraits of some pre-rock super stars such as Johnny Ray and Frank Sinatra as well as blues legends like B.B. King and Big Joe Turner. When I first opened that book I had the impression that every exaggerated image I had indelibly engraved into my brain of those who lived on the rock ‘n roll mount Olympus had somehow been transmitted onto those glossy pages. I’m sure many others of my generation had the same uncanny feeling.
Jeff Burger has reviewed the new Live In Bilbao album on the Blog Critics website. You can read the full review on the website. Here's a bit of what he had to say.
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A fascinating look at the interior life of a working musician, semi-famous, living in Paris, struggling with the ringing in his ears and the world in which we all live. Full of archival photos and lyrics from Elliott Murphy’s catalog...
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Finally a CD version of the legendary Elliott Murphy with Olivier Durand sold-out Bilbao concert of 2015 featuring songs from the EP Intime (“Benedict’s Blues,” “Sweet Honky Tonk”) as well as classic Murphy songs.
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