Before night comes each of us must work, in our few days, the work we were uniquely created to accomplish. Surely, that’s exactly what the late Aretha Franklin did in singing with such splen...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2018/08/18/remembering-aretha-franklin-r-e-s-p-e-c-t/
George Jones. The One and Only George Jones. Four years ago the Silent Boatman, who comes for us all, carried George away. He was, without any scintilla of doubt, the greatest singer Country Musi...
‘ … This is by a 15 year old girl from National City California named Rosie. This is going to be a hit Guys and Gals’ – DJ Alan Freed on K-Day Radio, November 1960. ‘This here is one �...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/04/02/angel-baby-rip-rosie-hamlin-a-once-and-future-wonder/
Chuck Berry has died. May he rest in peace. I will write an extensive tribute later. He was a Founding Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll. He was a Rock ‘n’ Roll Prophet and The Rock ‘n’ Roll...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/03/19/chuck-berry-rip-hail-hail-rock-n-roll/
Phil Everly’s physical voice was stilled four years ago. Yet his voice on record and in the hearts of generations of listeners now and to come will surely never be stilled. The keen in hi...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2017/01/03/phil-everly-remembered/
Regular readers of The Jukebox will know of my lifelong love and admiration for Muhammad Ali. Tens of millions of words will be written about his legendary life and career. Below is the heartfelt...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2016/06/05/fare-thee-well-muhammad-ali-fare-thee-well-champ/
‘To each his day is given. Beyond recall man’s little time runs by: but to prolong life’s glory by great deeds is virtue’s power’. (Virgil, The Aeneid) ‘Nor have I seen a mightier man...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/03/16/rip-dave-mackay-the-noblest-hotspur-of-them-all/
http:// Christmas is coming. I know that for certain because following much deliberation and discussion my son has composed his letter to Santa Claus. We sealed the envelope with due ceremony and...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2014/11/10/christmas-a-clarinet-and-acker-bilk-rip/
http:// …. Tunney Hunsaker!! Muhammad Ali is a sporting and cultural star to outshine Sirius. He has become a totemic figure occupying significant space in the global collective consciousness a...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2014/06/15/muhammad-ali-the-supporting-cast/
Jesse Winchester died at the age of 69 in April 2014. * I first heard him in the mid 1970s on Charlie Gillet’s rightly legendary radio show, ‘Honky Tonk’ which became my open university cou...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2014/04/26/jesse-winchester-1944-2014-rip/