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Lovely Day …
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

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Just by coincidence, this was the tune I chose to have played on that er hum, Lovely Day (well, it was intended to be one) we […]
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Are You Prejudiced?
Saturday, May 31, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

Apt after this previous post, or even more telling perhaps after What Your Taste in Music Says About You is this quiz, from which I was pleased to learn:
You Are Not Prejudiced: “Not only are you color blind, but you’re also ethnicity blind, gender blind, and sexual orientation blind. You don’t judge someone until […]
Sunday Silliness, Music
Sunday Silliness: What Your Taste in Music Says About You
Sunday, May 25, 2008 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Well, this is what mine said about me, apparently:
“Your musical tastes are energetic and rhythmic. You are full of energy and can be quite talkative. You are forward thinking and open minded. You despise conservatism of any sort. You are intense, detail oriented, and motivated. You are an ambitious person, though your ambition is […]
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Chaka Khan
Sunday, March 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

Never mind that Khan’s voice will give you tingles down your spine …
But this morning, for some reason, I had a real urge to listen some of Chaka Khan’s tunes and, whilst it’s true that I’d probably listen to her if she sang the Maastricht Treaty or her grocery shopping list set to music […]
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The Woman I Am
Thursday, March 8, 2007 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Chaka Khan in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California. Photo: Dwight McCannThat Chaka Khan’s voice is one powerful instrument, will be apparent to anyone who has heard her more familiar numbers, such as “I’m Every Woman” or the legendary soul record “Ain’t Nobody”.
Indeed, the latter had remained my all time favorite […]
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Songwriter of the year
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comment?

Something in the music world even more strange than Finland winning Eurovision, has to be the idea of 50 Cent being named as ‘Songwriter of the Year’.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t object to his type of music, or lyrics. Thankfully, I am too bloody old to understand them, but The Heathlander has transcribed […]

Cosmos is a personal blog, or more accurately, a mishmash of unrelated ramblings, by former accountant, recovering journalist and serial cat collector, Pamela Heywood, an erstwhile expat who lived on the island of Tenerife for 16 years. Currently visiting the equally “foreign” Costa del Geriatrico in the UK, she is fluent in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish. This blog is written in the latter.