TFI Friday

I'm glad the weekend is here, it has been a long week and I have had a heavy cold since Monday and no doubt it is Manflu! So I am looking forward to a much needed lie in, if my body clock let's me as it seems to be set on a 6am wake up system! I just want to get over it quickly so I can resume normality and not have to be close to a hankie for my streaming eyes and nose!

I got the Nilsson box set I won on Tuesday, finally! I didn't think it was going to arrive as I know how bad the post service is getting these days. So I was happy to see it and took it out of the packaging and all is fine. In fact the box is marked up as a promotional box set, so that pleased me too. I'm slowly working my way through the box set and I think I'm up to Nilsson's 7th album and to my surprise there are some hidden gem's amongst the collection so far, songs I knew but didn't know they were by him so it is becoming a really good listen, thanks again SDE

The music blog seems to be slowly getting looked at, I don't know if people like it of if they are just nicking the artwork I'm posting. I'm enjoying posting the stuff so as long as I enjoy it, I'll carry on, I just wish some one would write or leave a comment so I know it is reaching out to someone!

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Nilsson - Without You

This is my All Time Favourite Single, so I thought as an occasional thing I would feature a favourite song of mine, there are lot's as you can imagine.

I first heard this song as a youngster back in the early 70's when it came out and I always liked the song. As I got older, I had to find out who it was and I bought it as it is just an amazing piece of music.

Without You was first performed by Badfinger who at the time were signed to the Beatles record label Apple records. Nilsson, heard it and thought it was the Beatles (he befriended John Lennon later) he recorded his own version of it and it got to number 1 here in the UK charts in 1972. His heart wrenching vocals about a failed relationship, just make this song and the emotion is just so raw you can feel every 3 plus minutes of it as it plays. A classic song that has a sour ending to it. In the mid 70's there was a royalties row with the writers of the song and Nilsson, they claimed they wern't getting any royalties for the song. The stress of the court case was too much and Pete Ham hung himself, several years later on Tommy Evans hung himself as well. To make matters worse, in the 1990's Mariah Carey issued her version and completely murdered the track dead with her screeching awful vocals.

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