Saturday 6 November 2021


































I wanted to mention  legendary music journalist
Pete Makowski who has died aged 65.
He started at Sounds magazine as a teenage office-boy
before getting tthe opportunity to write.
I believe he was given the. less-popular with older staff, 
heavy rock albums to review.
Which included Deep Purple's Made in Japan,
regards
Titus

14 comments:

  1. Sad news...similarly Malcolm Dome, another great rock scribe also passed away recently....we're getting auld.

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    1. I was not familiar with Malcolm Dome.I see he wrote for Kerrang

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  2. Too young to die, by today's standards anyway.
    Titus, do you have old music magazines?

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    1. I don't unfortunately. I was an avid Sounds buyer in the 70s but that was a newspaper rather than a glossy mag so one tended to read it then throw it away. There is a Norwegian guy who has lots and is selling. He scans stuff. I will post a link when I am home...all work at the moment

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  3. I have a lot of Rock & Folk mags in pdf from the sixties and onwards. How's your french?

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    1. Have a look here, very nice work https://geirmykl.wordpress.com/

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    2. Ah, swear words seem to be the first you learn :)
      That site is a real gem.

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    3. Allez-vous donc partager certains de ces PDF ?

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    4. Mais certainement, en voici quelques-uns:
      https://mixdrop.sx/f/gnxxz16kap1emg

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  4. It's still a pain in the ass to me when at the end of the eighties I moved to another house, and I just went to the garbage paper bin throwing away all my eighties Rock'n'Folk collection. Well I've read them, why should I keep them ???? Dummy was I.

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    1. Been there, done (something like) that.
      There was a portuguese mag called Musica & Som which I had collected in my teens, well about 20 years ago it all went to the trash. Before that, I scanned some of its pages but only articles with what I liked back then so I don't have not even one complete edition...
      Anyway I still have some Classic Rock Magazines, Enfer, Hard Force, Metal Attack.

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  5. We've all done things like that. The alternative is a house crammed with the clutter of a lifetime.

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