In one of my latest Songs Of My Life editions, I introduced you to Amish Paradise by Weird Al Yankovic. Just as this week, one of my biggest dreams comes true and Al will play his first ever show in Germany,…
Songs of my Life: The Axis of Awesome – 4 Chord Song
I really feel sorry that I don’t make it more regularly to release a new Songs of my Life posting. I generally love that category – but it is also too easy to push a posting of it into the…
Songs Of My Life: Weird Al Yankovic – Amish Paradise
Last week, have been traveling through Florida. Four cities, five concerts, one artist: Weird Al Yankovic. The US-American comedy musician is a huge act in North America, while his fan base in Europe is not too large, but a very…
Songs Of My Life: Toto Cutugno – Insieme: 1992
The Russian offensive war in the Ukraine hit me mentally very strongly. I have some lovely people and contacts over there. Just on top of that it is disgusting that one European country is attacking another for purely offensive rationale…
Songs Of My Life: Robin Gibb – Juliet
There are just a very few artist, whom I actively visited after their death at their grave. You come across quite a lot of music celebrities when you visit the Vienna Central Cemetery, for example. But only for one of…
Songs Of My Life: Lauren Jenkins – Running Out Of Road
When I looked into the Songs Of My Life postings so far, there are just very few rather recent songs covered. Of course, it needs some time to “grow” a song, which influenced you significantly – but in fact, the posting…
Songs Of My Life: Gianna Nannini / Edoardo Bennato – Un’ Estate Italiana
8th July 1990, Olympic Stadium in Rome. German Andreas Brehme took the deciding penalty shot in the 85th minute and scored against Argentinian goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea. Four years after the same teams faced at the finals of the Soccer World…
Songs Of My Life: Genesis – Shipwrecked
It is quite surprising that one of the biggest musical fandom of my life has not yet made it to the Songs Of My Life postings. However, Shipwrecked is likely not one of the songs you think of first when you…