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Eric Clapton's 'Journeyman' Album Feat. George Harrison, Chaka Khan, Daryl Hall, Robert Cray, Phil Collins and others Now Available on Hybrid SACD
Much to the elation of
Eric Clapton fans across the globe, Marshall Blonstein's Audio
Fidelity has released Clapton's 'Journeyman' album as a limited
numbered edition Hybrid SACD! Eric Clapton is a true legend.
'Journeyman' reached #16 on the Billboard album chart and became
Clapton's first solo studio album to go double platinum. Like any of
his best albums, there is no grandstanding to be found on
'Journeyman'...it's simply a laid-back and thoroughly engaging
display of his virtuosity. The album was heralded as a return to form
for Clapton, much of it has an electronic sound, mostly influenced by
the 1980s rock scene, but it also includes blues songs like “Before
You Accuse Me,” “Running on Faith,” and “Hard Times.”
“At the center of it all is Clapton's
guitar work...stinging blues and soaring pop.”
There is an all-star assembly of
guests: Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark, George Harrison, Chaka
Khan, Daryl Hall, Robert Cray, Cecil and Linda Womack, Phil Collins
and Gary Burton. Among the highlights are several cuts that feature
slide-versus-slowhand guitar dueling with Cray. George Harrison is
particularly impressive on his little masterpiece “Run So Far,”
playing guitar and singing harmony vocals.
A couple of tracks rank among Clapton's
best from any decade.The strongest commercial single is “Bad Love,”
which won the 1990 Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy Award, and
reached the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart. “Pretending”
is a firm mid-tempo rocker that also reached the No. 1 position on
the Album Rock Chart and and includes one of his most assured vocal
performances ever.
Clapton sounds more convincing than he
had since the early '70s. Not only is his guitar playing muscular and
forceful, his singing is soulful and gritty - he seems to have struck
the perfect balance between the fiery blues of his youth with the pop
flavorings of his later years.
TRACKS:
Pretending
Anything for Your Love
Bad Love
Running on Faith
Hard Times
Hound Dog
No Alibis
Run So Far
Old Love
Breaking Point
Lead Me On
Before You Accuse Me
Produced By Jill Dell'Abate & Russ
Titelman
Mastered by Steve Hoffman
at Stephen Marsh Mastering
For more information:
http://www.audiofidelity.net/
Billy Preston - That's the Way God Planned It - Apple - LP - 1969 - Sealed | George Harrison
Billy Preston APPLE - SMAS - 3359 - 1969
Condition: Sealed
That's the Way God Planned It
Produced by George Harrison
Still sealed copy
Click to bid!
The Beatles and Muhammad Ali New Documentaries on DVD
50th Anniversaries of Beatles and Muhammad Ali Commemorated in Newly Released Documentaries on DVD
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
Ali: The Man, The Moves, The Mouth
In commemoration
of the 50th anniversaries for the Beatles and Ali, Music Video
Distributors (MVD) has announced the release of two documentaries on
DVD: The Beatles: Their Golden Age (one hour, $9.95) and Ali: The Man, The Moves, The Mouth (one
hour, $9.95). The Ali DVD documentary is narrated by one of boxing's
most-acclaimed sportscasters, Bert Sugar, and is one of his last works
before his death in March.
In August of 1962, Ringo
Starr replaced drummer Pete Best in an English band that few Americans
knew of then, completing what would soon be the biggest entertainment
act in history, the Beatles. Soon after, young Cassius Clay (later known
as Muhammad Ali) began training for his biggest fight to date, a bout
with the former heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Patterson, who
he would defeat handily when they met the following month. The news
crews of the day couldn't get enough of the two events, and those
unassuming, yet ballyhooed beginnings changed popular culture and sports
forever!
The
Ali documentary is based on a book of like title by Les Krantz, who
also produced the documentary. In it, are highlights of all of Ali's
biggest fights, including "The Fight of the Century," in 1971, in which
two undefeated heavyweight champions, Ali and Joe Frazier, amazed fans
with their stamina and tenacity.
Ali, the dethroned
heavyweight champion, had lost his boxing license earlier when he
refused to be inducted as a draftee into the U.S. Army. With Ali absent,
Frazier had won the championship in 1970. You'll witness Frazier beat
Ali in the 1971 bout in this documentary, but, in their rematch, "The
Thrilla in Manilla," Ali came back to win over Frazier. Both matches are
on the DVD. Hyping the rematch, Ali states on camera, "It'll be a
thrilla and a killa and a chilla when I get the Gorilla in Manilla."
Also included is "The Rumble in Jungle" in Zaire where Ali retook the
championship, defeating George Foreman.
Lots of rare footage
distinguishes this documentary from other films about Ali's career.
"Most Americans today don't realize that Ali spent a lot of time in
Britain in the beginning of his boxing career," Krantz said. "We used
some superb footage of Ali shot over in England where he had some early
professional fights." The Brits were curious about this outspoken black
man whose brash style was not what British TV viewers were used to
seeing. "The British footage is why our documentary has a bit of a
different look than other Ali films," Krantz said, "so it has a lot of
Ali footage that most Americans haven't seen." In addition to highlights
of fights with Englishmen Henry Cooper and Joe Bugner, Ali offers
plenty of his amusing quips in the documentary.
Ali's rhetoric was colorful.
"I'm the King!" he shouts in one scene shot in London, as he hyped a
fight. "You got a queen, but you ain't got no King! I'm the King!"
Almost as colorful as Ali is the documentary's narrator Bert Sugar who
perpetually wore a trademark fedora hat and almost always had a fat
cigar he'd wiggle at you. Sugar had a special relationship with Ali. In
order to make his calls better when he covered an Ali fight, the
sportscaster once sparred with the Ali . . . just to learn what it might
be like. When he spoke of it, he'd raise his fists to demonstrate how
he jabbed at Ali and he'd bob and weave like a prize fighter as he gave
his account. "Seeing Bert, with his 'dukes up,' ready to poke you,"
Krantz said, "was an intimidating experience, even though he was seventy
something when he did with me."
"You can't imagine what a
thrill it was for me, " producer Krantz said, "to work on back-to-back
documentaries of the heroes of my youth, Ali and the Beatles."
The latter work, The Beatles: Their Golden Age, tells the story
of the Beatles from their beginning in 1960s, thru Ringo joining the
group in 1962, to the very end in 1970 when the Beatles broke up. In
addition to their world tours, the documentary has highlights of their
movies, all five of them. You'll witness them dancing and singing their
way across the screen, including a portion on the making of their first
movie, A Hard Day's Night. Also included are scenes from Help!, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, and Let it Be.
Not
every scene in the Beatles documentary is as familiar as the boys'
movies. Rare footage in Krantz's documentary include John Lennon reading
his from his poetry book; Paul McCartney angrily lecturing a newsman
about revealing his LSD usage; George Harrison batting his eyes at his
new wife Patty Boyd, and Ringo clowning around in the Irish countryside
with the other Beatles. "We liked to show a side of the boys that was
seldom very public," Krantz said. The famous scenes are here too: a
repentant John explaining his remark that the group was "bigger than
Jesus;" the Beatles arriving in London as they returned from their world
tour, and their triumphant return to their hometown, Liverpool.
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The newly released DVD documentary, The Beatles: Their Golden Age,
(one hour, from MVD, $9.95,) commemorates the 50th anniversary of when
the Beatles, as we know them now, became complete on August 18, 1962-the
day Ringo Starr formally joined John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George
Harrison, who formed the group in 1960. The group, with Ringo, became
the most popular entertainment act in history.
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"And then one day - it
was August, 1962 - John Lennon called me and he said, 'You're in! Shave
your beard'-I had a beard again - 'but keep your sidies,' That's
sideburns, you know."
- Ringo Starr, on his formal induction into the Beatles, which was on August 18, 1962.
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Bert Sugar, one of boxing's most-acclaimed sportscasters, narrates Ali: The Man, The Moves, The Mouth (one hour, from MVD, $9.95), now being released on DVD.
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Did Muhammad Ali make Howard Cosell famous or the other way around? See them both in the documentary, Ali: The Man, The Moves, The Mouth, (one hour, from MVD, $9.95), which is now being released on DVD. It is narrated by legendary sportscaster Bert Sugar.
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