{"id":10110,"date":"2011-11-09T07:36:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2011-11-09T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:42:00","slug":"something-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/something-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Something for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/philadelphia-to-offer-formal-apology-for-launching-the-career-of-billy-joel\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent rifts over <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/philadelphia-to-offer-formal-apology-for-launching-the-career-of-billy-joel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Joel<\/a><\/strong> had me yearning for something that we all could agree on. I stumbled across this series of videos from an episode of <em>Eight Days A Week<\/em>, a British music talk show. Not only did it offer a well-spoken and coifed <strong>Green Gartside<\/strong>, a grey but tactful <strong>Nick Lowe<\/strong>, and rock critic\/pseudo groupie <strong>Janice Long<\/strong>, but the discussion covered such a wide assortment of musicians circa 1984 that it seemed that we all could find something to love.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>part 1<\/strong>, we have the conundrum of a whether a member of <strong>Culture Club<\/strong>&#8216;s solo attempt is any good. We move along to some footage of <strong>The Clash<\/strong> at Shea Stadium and discussion of the jettison of <strong>Mick Jones<\/strong>.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Ebq3lTMA7k?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>In <strong>part 2<\/strong>, we have fun the Liverpudlian way, with <strong>Echo and the Bunnymen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And in <strong>part 3<\/strong>, we hear about <strong>Pogue Mahone<\/strong> and other pub bands of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, we are also treated to references to\u00a0<strong>Neil Diamond<\/strong>, <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>, <strong>The Moody Blues<\/strong>, and the latest band to jump the pond, <strong>REM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Parts 2 and 3 follow after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wb1bUsP6CM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VTNamE9SQ4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent rifts over Billy Joel had me yearning for something that we all could agree on. I stumbled across this series of videos from an episode of Eight Days A Week, a British music talk show. Not only did it offer a well-spoken and coifed Green Gartside, a grey but tactful Nick Lowe, and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/something-for-everyone\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[337,10,133,4,30,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}