Welcome Back to Mystery Lyrics. Things are more or less sorted out with the database, just a bit of tidying up to do. Soon we will be back to playing Name That Tune. first of all though I would like to introduce you to some new features on this site.
First of all we have a webradio playing. The software for this is in fact German, so you may some unintelligable stuff on the screen now and again. The songs however are english :).
Then we have the “Mystery Lyrics Calendar” - …

Welcome to REM’s ‘new direction’, folks. It’s the old one, thank goodness! Eleven years after Bill Berry’s departure from the drum stool it’s finally ok for the band to admit that things haven’t been too rosy on the communications front. The decision to soldier on was, they say, brave but maybe misguided, especially when it led to the stylistic dilettantism of albums like Up or the frankly moribund Around The Sun. But those who thought that the hiring of Jacknife Lee as producer (Bloc Party, Editors) might lead to another …

You may have noticed a comment on this page by an institution named “The Web Sheriff”. This british-based institution apparently protects the interests of artists on the Internet. Now I would be the first to admit that there is a problem with “peer to peer” technology damaging the record business, and while I feel for the artists who are losing revenue (apart from the superstars, who have more money than they could ever spend anyway), I have little to no sympathy for the big record companies, who seem to have …

The Man returns. And after over 40 years of telling us that it ain’t why, it just is, who are we to argue as to whether it’s good or bad? But the really good news is that after his somewhat dodgy foray into country with Pay The Devil, he’s really back on top. What’s more he even sounds…cheerful. Which is strange, because Keep It Simple is a mainly bluesy affair. He’s returned to the usual mixture of autobiographical fare (School Of Hard Knocks) and the kind of folky r ‘n’ …

Ex-ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert has been found dead in his home in Spain. Brunkert, who was session drummer on all of ABBA’s albums, is believed to have banged his head on a window and suffered fatal injuries to his neck. He was discovered by a neighbour who found him with a towel wrapped around his neck, after he had apparently tried to get help before collapsing
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BBC: Abba drummer found dead in Spain

For the last two years I have been webmaster of the official fan website of Germanys best jazz/blues singer Caro. Now this site is available in english, as I plan to get things moving in english speaking countries. Have a look at this page, listen to and watch the videos, and then let me know what you think. I think, you will enjoy it…
By the way - by registering on the fan page at caro-fans.com you get the chance to win one of 5 autographed CDs of Caro’s “Eternity”
www.caro-fans.com
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Have you read Gary’s weekly newsletter yet? Irreverent, funny, sarcastic, and certainly not for children, Gary’s look at the world is worth reading. A new edition is uploaded usually every sunday. Time to have a look…
Here you go
www.riprenfield.com

After the “Forgotten Hits Newsletter” ran into trouble with certain ISPs that classified it as Spam, Kent has changed the face of Forgotten Hits by starting a blog and a dedicated website. Although he has changed his email provider and he is sending out a reduced newsletter via a gmail account, it looks as though the days of Forgotten Hits as an email is slowly but surely coming to a close.
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Ridiculous
Who has never received emails promoting penis enlargement, viagra and the like? Spam is certainly the biggest problem on the …

And again we take leave of a musician who made a mark on us when we were young. Norman Smith (known as Normal Norman to John Lennon) has passed away at the age of 85. Smith was initially succesful as the Beatles engineer working on every Beatles production between 1962 and 1965, before being succesful at the beginning of the 70s as Hurricane Smith. Unforgotten his hit “Oh Babe what would you say” that hit the top 5 both sides of the Atlantic…
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We are sad to announce yet another death this week…. Blind blues guitarist and bandleader Jeff Healey died of cancer yesterday at the age of 41 (2. March), it has been revealed on his website. He leaves his wife Christie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (3)
Healey, famed for playing his electric guitar flat on his lap, died of retinoblastoma which claimed his sight when he was a one-year-old-child.
Read more on the BBC Website
The official Jeff Healey Website