My Musical Alphabet : G

Another break from work (entirely above board) and we have reached the letter after G, but first the usual housekeeping:

As I keep saying, this stuff isn't mine and may very well be pulled for breach of copyright. You can, of course, go looking on YouTube, or its foreign variants, for copies. I'm sure you know how.

This first piece is for piano. As I write this I am aware that I seem to have a liking for all strings, plucked, stroked, bashed, bowed. Better have a word with my analyst, see what she says about that.

Anyway. I have James Burke, a real hero of mine for this. It was the theme tune to one of his excellent TV programmes, "The Real Thing." That is also on YouTube.

The piece is by Eric Satie

 

and goes by the title, "Gnosienne No 1."

Gipsy Kings are up next: and would you look at that, a whole raft of guitars! According to an author on Wiki - "Spanish flamenco and gypsy rhapsody meet salsa funk".  I am not really sure how they came to my attention but you can have a taste of them with the following, "Baila Me."

The next clip also features guitars and I wasn't really sure what to use but I've gone for this piece, "Asturias" played by Andreas Segovia. Who says you can't play guiatr with large fingers?

You might want to ignore the Hot Latin Beauties advert that turns up in your news feed on FB from now on.

G is for Glam, and, again, there is loads of stuff to choose. I do think that this is where my real music education started. Before then music was in the background but from the early 70s, I was more interested in it. We had Glam, Prog, Metal, Puck, New Wave.....

My choice would be the following, a bittersweet choice as my dad died as this was on the airwaves.

And then came the 80s:

G is now for Germans and there are a load of them that I could have chosen (from the 80s or earlier). From Kraftwerk to Nena to the Spider Murphy Gang. Foreign music is thin on the ground in the UK charts but then there is radio as I mentioned in an earlier blog.

But I have chosen Modern Talking. Please ignore the shell suits, the lip gloss, the big hair. It was the 80s after all. I like the MT stuff, not so much what Bohlen/Anders have done on their own, but what they did together.

Yet again, I am not sure where I first heard them but it must have been about the time of "You're My Heart, You'reMy Soul" in 1985 as I am the proud owner of this on 12".

Here are a couple from them, the above song and one featuring a bit more guitar.

 

Enjoy!