Global rock legends of the '60s and '70s
Monday, March 10, 2014

Don McLean's Vincent

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I’ve been getting back into the music of Don McLean, who was such a key player in my high school years from 1970. I am unable at this ...
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Monday, February 4, 2013

This blog now on Kindle, iPad, etc

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The new cover, designed by Douglas Bentley, who curiously turned the Beatles image on its side.  The title page I’ve finally ...

The Rodriguez phenomenon

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WHEN the Oscar winners are announced at the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on February 24, South Africans will have a very good re...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Woodstock lives on

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In an attempt to ascertain whether Benjy Mudie and I were right in our recollection about the screening in apartheid South Africa of the cla...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Woodstock, the movie, wasn't banned in South Africa

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Benjy Mudie In my previous posting, I wrote about a book which quotes the Woodstock movie’s director, Michael Wadleigh, as saying that the ...
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Kin Bentley
Born in East London, South Africa, in 1956, I studied fine art at the EL Technical College. I worked as a reporter and sub-editor on The Herald in Port Elizabeth. Established in 1845, it is the oldest daily newspaper in the country.
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