Nimmervoll's Notes New Year Edition
Posted by Allans Billy Hyde , Friday, December 31, 2010 1:03 PM
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Ed Nimmervoll is a legendary Australian rock music journalist, author and historian. He worked on rock magazines Go-Set (1966-1974) and Juke (1975-1992) both as a journalist and as an editor. Since 2000, Nimmervoll has been editor of HowlSpace, a website detailing Australian rock music history, providing artist profiles, news and video interviews. DID YOU KNOW? Bruce Springsteen bought his first guitar at the age 13 for a paltry $18. When Springsteen was 16 years old, his mother took out a loan to buy him a $60 Kent guitar, and this was memorialized in Springsteen’s song ‘The Wish’. MILESTONE 70 years ago Nat King Cole recorded for the first time. The song in question, ‘Sweet Lorraine’, is part of Nat King Cole mythology. It’s popularly held that Cole was essentially a piano player until a drunk at a bar badgered him into singing ‘Sweet Lorraine’, causing Nathaniel Cole to discover his singing voice. What actually happened was that he was already singing the occasional song between the instrumentals when he encountered the drunk audience member. Cole didn’t know the song he was being asked to sing, so he sang ‘Sweet Lorraine’ instead. His singing DID make an impression and now he was singing that song in the recording studio. WHAT’S NEW Eventually - probably in the new year – we’re going to hear a new U2 album . It already has a name ‘Songs Of Ascent’. We know this because on the way to a new album U2 register a website address with the same name and months ago they did this with ‘Songs Of Ascent’. The songs for the album were recorded at the same time as last year’s ‘No Line On The Horizon’. But since then the band has back in the studio AND they’ve recorded songs for Bono and Edge’s ‘Spiderman’ musical for Broadway. There’s a lot of music to choose from then, and in 2011 we’ll begin to hear it. WHAT CAME FIRST Hardly the name you’d be expecting to break new ground for music in 1987, but almost 40 years into his recording career Tony Bennett’s ‘The Art Of Excellence’ became the first album to be initially released on CD instead of the traditional vinyl format. WHAT’S THAT SPELL? Legendary jazz clarinetist Woody Herman’s parents were Otto and Myrtle HERRMAN. It was Woody who changed the spelling of the familial name to Herman. QUOTE UNQUOTE Singer songwriter Billy Joel said: “I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music” I FOUGHT THE LAW In 1997 Danbert Nobacon from British anarchist rockers Chumbawamba was arrested by Italian police for wearing a skirt and was detained in police cells overnight. THE NAME GAME “White Wedding” punk rocker Billy Idol was born William Michael Albert Broad. The name Billy Idol was inspired by a school teacher’s description of Broad as “idle”. Billy decided on the other form of the word. |
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