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Billy MacKenzie Fandom In The Aftermath: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times [part 5]
Part 5: Death As A Career Move… The next seven or eight years following Billy’s death saw all manner of his recordings get a release from various labels and concerns. While MacKenzie was gone and would no longer create music … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s
Tagged 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017, Alan Rankine, Associates, BillyMacKenzie
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Billy MacKenzie: The Posthumous Era [part 4]
Part 4: The Aftermath… Billy’s mother Lily had died the previous summer and the already mercurial singer was capable of wild mood swings as his attitude to his singing career had already showed. On January 22nd, 1997, he went into … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, obituary, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s
Tagged 1997, Associates, Billy Mackenzie
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Making Up For Lost Time In The 90s With Associates [part 3]
Part 3: Obsession MAGNIFICENT… With my perceptions permanently altered by my encounter with Associates, I really started purchasing vinyl records once again after pretty much a five year layoff. By the early 90s, it was apparent that whole swaths of … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s
Tagged 1990, 1992, Associates, BillyMacKenzie, Solo Album
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My Tragically Late Recognition of Associates Changed Everything [part 2]
Part 2: The EPIPHANY… As we was in said last post, I had many opportunities to be exposed to both Billy MacKenzie and The Associates and I was curiously deaf to the evidence. Nothing clicked for me. Until that fateful … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s, Those First Impressions
Tagged 1990, Associates, Billy Mackenzie, Sire Records
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REDUX: A Young Person’s Guide To Associates – “Heart Of Glass”
October 10, 2014 I think I actually first heart The Associates expansive cover of Blondie’s “Heart Of Glass” being played in a club! This was the pre-show disco for some show at Visage in Orlando during the late 80s-early 90s … Continue reading
Posted in A Young Person's Guide, CD-3 Files, Core Collection, Scots Rock
Tagged 1988, Associates, BillyMacKenzie, Blondie, New Wave Cover Version
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Monk Agog: Flexipop! Tome Crowdsourced And No One Told Me
So I hope you saw this coming from yesterday. I was writing about the Boomtown Rats flexidisc that came with issue #3 of Flexipop! Magazine, and in case anyone reading the post didn’t have a clue as to what I … Continue reading
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