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Favourite Composers, Musicians, Influences and all time favourite tracks

CD SHOP

CHOPIN

Frank ZAPPA; 

White Zombie: "Astrocreep 2000"; "MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN"and "BLOOD MILK & SKY" 

Rob Zombie: "Hellbilly Deluxe"; First 4 trks favourites.

Soundgarden - all albums/tracks & Chis Cornell's voice

Audioslave: again Chris Cornell's voice

ROBERT PLANT

The Shangri-Las, The Beach Boys, , The BEATLES, MOTOWN.

BRIAN WILSON: "Pet Sounds" and all the new CD's of outtakes from the studio sessions

BURT BACHARACH.

TINA TURNER, then and still

PINK FLOYD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROLLING STONES: 'Satisfaction' and everything up to Voodoo Lounge

Olatunji (Drums of Passion) – African backbeats

MARIA CALLAS  singing Madame Butterfly and all Puccini

"Goldfinger" (an obsession with Shirley Bassey’s vibrato)

FRANK SINATRA:  All of Frank (arranged by Nelson Riddle)

The San Remo Jazz Festival… 

Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 and '88

GETZ/GILBERTO: Corcovado

JIM MORRISON & the Doors

GRACE SLICK, the voice that launched a thousand trips with Jefferson Airplane, not Starship.. 'though she was still the greatest singer.  A little too commercial later on for my liking.

HENDRIX is a God - ALL Hendrix and the waft of dope smoke from under my brother’s bedroom door.

Allison Steele, “The Nightbird” on WNEW FM radio in New York.

MILES DAVIS

"BORN TO BE WILD" (2nd favourite trk of all time) & "Magic Carpetride":  Steppenwolf/ Mick Mars

Whole Lotta Love and the inception of the Zeppelin myth. so, yes.. LED ZEPPELIN!!!!!!  JIMMY PAGE! Plant is already listed above

'KASHMIR' - LZ No 1 favourite track of all.

Norman Greenbaum (That BASSLINE!!!) “Spirit in the Sky”

WOODSTOCK - all the music from the Woodstock soundtrack and the film

JANIS JOPLIN -  Everything

CHAKA KHAN

Bootsie's Rubber Band & Parliament Funkadelic

Bowie and his Tin Machine

Glen Campbell: All, but favourite "Wichita Lineman"

AC//DC:  ALL and especially "If You Want Blood, You've Got It" w/ Bon Scott

Shania Twain (w/ Mutt Lange producing/writing)

Pink

Alex Harvey - ROCKDRILLE SUITE & AMOS MOSES

JUDY GARLAND

Goldfrapp: Black Cherry CD

Sisters of Mercy: "I Want More"

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

The Mission: "Tower Of Love"

Yeah.. yeah.. Guns 'n Roses - a little cliche'd but "Appetite for Destruction" was the best of it's genre.

FASTER PUSSYCAT

Dolly Parton - an incredibly prolific writer

JONI MITCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KLF

Mongolian Throat Singers

USSR Red Army Choir - albums probably deleted after perestroika

Sarah Vaughn: "TENDERLY"

Ozzy Osbourne:  All solo albums

BLACK SABBATH

N.W.A

Ronnie Dio's voice and HOLY DIVER album.

Deep Purple

THE WHO

Al Green

Primal Scream: "VANISHING POINT"

Jamelia's: 'Superstar" and Beyonce Knowles "Crazy..."

LEMMY (personal reasons) & MOTORHEAD (so many fond memories)

Hawkwind

ALABAMA 3

Bizet's CARMEN

Steel Moon (Unsigned band from Colorado) "Living on the Edge of Madness"

Michael Jackson's THRILLER and OFF THE WALL

"Disco Inferno"

PATTY SMITH

Marianne Faithful

DEBBIE HARRY:  All Blondie, "PICTURE THIS" and all solo work.

BILLY HOLIDAY

MARLENE DIETRICH

Bryan Ferry: solo albums & Roxy Music

Oasis:  "What's the Story..."

Kind of like the current crop of British 3 girl groups: Mysteeq, Sugababes, Liberty X... etc.

METALLICA: "Sad But True"

MEGADETH: "In My Hour Of Need"

Slaughter: "Up All Night, Sleep All Day"

THOMPSON TWINS: "Doctor Doctor" and "Stay WIth Me"

RATT:  "OUT OF THE CELLAR"

The Shamen

Transglobal Underground 

Natacha Atlas singing anything

OFRA HAZZA: Singing anything

NUSRAT FATI ALI KAHN: Everything and anything

VOX BULGARIE: Incredible - off the vocal richter.

LIZ FRASER: Cocteau Twins and recent work with Massive Attack

Massive Attack

The Passions:  "I'm in Love With A German Filmstar...."

Dandy Warhols: That one hit song

Shaun Ryder/ Black Grape

TOM PETTY

Aerosmith - "PERMANENT VACATION"

"The HorseWhisper" Soundtrack: TTHOMAS NEWMAN - Magnificent