Steve Gibbons – Ein Musiker, den man kennen sollte
According to the German version of Wikipedia, the Midlands are "the central part of England around Birmingham. It is roughly equivalent to the lowlands of central England, the traditional centre of coal mining (see the term Black Country) and, to this day, industry. ... Its urban centre is the conurbation of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry... Continue Reading →
Im Jahr 2003 erscheint mit "Brum Rocked On!" der Nachfolgeband des erfolgreichen Buches "Brum Rocked!" von Laurie Hornsby. Im Fokus: 1963 bis 1969 Während die erste Band die Frühzeit der Birmingham Musikszene von der Mitte der 1950er bis zur Mitte der 1960er dokumentiert, erzählt dieses Buch in neun Kapiteln die Entwicklung in den Jahren 1963... Continue Reading →
In 2003 "Brum Rocked On!", the follow-up to the successful book "Brum Rocked!" by Laurie Hornsby, was released. In focus: 1963 to 1969 While the first volume documents the early period of the Birmingham music scene from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, this book tells in nine chapters the development in the period 1963 to... Continue Reading →
Im Jahre 1999 erschien ein Buch, in dem Steve Gibbons eine wichtige Rolle spielt: Die Rede ist von „Brum Rocked“ von Laurie Hornsby, in dem dieser die Anfangszeit der Rock- und Beat-Musik in Birmingham beschreibt. Der Band enthält einen mitunter unsystematischen, aber angenehm zu lesenden Rückblick auf die Musikszene der 1950er und 1960er Jahre in... Continue Reading →
In 1999 a book was published in which Steve Gibbons plays an important role: It's called "Brum Rocked" by Laurie Hornsby, and it describes the early days of rock and beat music in Birmingham. The volume contains a sometimes unsystematic, but pleasant to read review of the music scene of the 1950s and 1960s in... Continue Reading →
Picture above: Not the Dominettes, but Steve Gibbons & Co. some years earlier ( Picture provided by Steve Gibbons, thank you very much!) At the start of the decade, Steve is the lead singer of The Dominettes, a locally known group that played rhythm and blues standards and performed alternately to the accompaniment of strippers... Continue Reading →
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