Recorded Live In Sweden 1970

In memory of great Peter Green... © 1968 Peter Green. Video © BBC Studios.

Fleetwood Mac
Peter Green – guitar
Danny Kirwan – guitar
John McVie – bass guitar
Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion
Jeremy Spencer – guitar

Tracklist:
1. Black Magic Woman 0:00
2. Jumping at Shadows 6:03
3. Like it this Way 10:52
4. Only You
5. The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) 19:18
6. World in Harmony 35:00
7. Oh Well
8. Rattlesnake Shake 41:24

Remixed by Andrew Gell

PETER GREEN - GTR/VOX/FENDER 6 BASS/PERCUSSION
DANNY KIRWAN - GTR/VOX
JOHN McVIE - BASS
MICK FLEETWOOD - DRUMS

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

Coup d'Etat is the third studio album released by punk rock band The Plasmatics in 1982.

Tracklist:
Side one
1. Put Your Love in Me 0:00
2. Stop 3:54
3. Rock 'n' Roll 8:34
4. Lightning Breaks 12:56
5. No Class 16:53
Side two
1. Mistress of Taboo 19:29
2. Country Fairs 22:46
3. Path of Glory 26:23
4. Just Like on TV 31:07
5. The Damned 34:26
Bonus track
Uniformed Guards (work-in-progress) 38:46

Plasmatics
Wendy O. Williams - vocals
Richie Stotts - lead guitar
Wes Beech - rhythm guitar (lead guitar on "Just Like On TV", "No Class" and "Stop")
Junior Romanelli - bass, keyboards
T. C. Tolliver - drums, percussion

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

As carrier groups deliver destruction to Japanese strongholds, American subs risk everything to surface in enemy waters and rescue downed aviators. Submarines featured are the USS Skate and USS Finback. Also covered is the Finback's rescue of future U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

Featuring:
James M. Scott (Author, "The War Below"), Jonathan Parshall (Co-Author, "Shattered Sword")

For more info;
USS Skate (SS-305)
https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3051.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Skate_(SS-305)

Eugene Bradley McKinney, USN
https://uboat.net/allies/commanders/3297.html

USS Finback (SS-230)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Finback_(SS-230)

+++ RIP Glorious punk-metal Goddess Wendy O. Williams - Alex +++
In the fall of 1981 the Plasmatics were booked to headline the outdoor Dr. Pepper Festival in NYC where this video 'Sex Junkie' was performed.

Plasmatics performing 'Masterplan' at the Perkins Palace (California) on the 17th of June, 1981.
The explosion of the car was huge and stage equipment ignited during the explosion can be seen continuing to burn as gas-masked roadies run to put the fires out. The next show following this, promoted by Jack Hoffman, brother of 60s radical Abbie Hoffman was subsequently banned.

Beyond the Valley of 1984 is the second album by punk-metal band The Plasmatics.
After the success of their first album and tour, the band began recording their follow-up album, Beyond the Valley of 1984. After the amount of time and money that was put into their last album, Bruce Kirkland at Stiff Records agreed to put up the funds as long as Rod produced and the album was done in less than 3 weeks at a quarter of the cost of the first.

Producer and manager Rod Swenson proposed the name Beyond the Valley of 1984 and the 1981 tour became "The 1984 World Tour". In between touring drummers, Alice Cooper's Neal Smith was brought in to do the drumming for the record, and the album, with its Orwellian and apocalyptic theme and songs such as "Masterplan", "Pig Is a Pig", and "Sex Junkie", were released a few months later.

The album was recorded at The Ranch in New York City, a studio owned by John Andrew "Andy" Parks, a singer-songwriter from Texas. A promotional tape exists with Andy doing the voice-over in an over-the-top Texan accent. The Ranch was equipped with a modified MCI JH-416 console, a 3M M-79 24-track and an Ampex ATR-102 1/4-inch two-track. Engineer Eddie Ciletti was brought in during the second phase to overdub guitars, vocals, electric chain saw and mix. Mixing was "unconventional," for a punk record due to rather "strict" parameters established by Rod. The record would not have any wide stereo panning, and it had to be mixed at a level low enough so that he could conduct business over the phone. The mix was done almost entirely on Auratone monitors.

During recording for the album, The Plasmatics were booked on the Tom Snyder late night TV show, where Tom Snyder introduced them as "possibly the greatest punk rock band in the entire world".

Beyond the Valley of 1984 would go on to spend 9 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at 142 in the summer of 1981.

Tracklist:
0:00 Incantation
2:13 Masterplan
5:22 Headbanger
8:48 Summer Nite
13:35 Nothing
17:18 Fast Food Service
18:41 Hitman (Live in Milan, Italy)
22:26 Living Dead
26:12 Sex Junkie
29:22 Plasma Jam (Live in Milan, Italy)
37:28 A Pig is a Pig

Personnel
Wendy O. Williams - vocals, chainsaw
Wes Beech - rhythm guitars
Richie Stotts - lead guitars
Jean Beauvoir - bass, piano, synthesizers
Neal Smith - drums, percussion

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

Overkill is the second studio album by English rock band Motörhead, released in March 1979. It was the band's first album with Bronze Records. Kerrang! magazine listed the album at number 46 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". American thrash metal band Overkill was named after this album.

Tracklist:
1. Overkill 0:00
2. Stay Clean 5:16
3. (I Won't) Pay Your Price 7:59
4. I'll Be Your Sister 10:56
5. Capricorn 13:51
6. No Class 18:03
7. Damage Case 20:45
8. Tear Ya Down 23:48
9. Metropolis 26:31
10. Limb From Limb 30:08
11. Too Late Too Late - Bonus Track 35:05
12. Like A Nightmare - Bonus Track 38:32
13. Louie, Louie - Bonus Track (Cover: The Kingsmen) 43:00
14. Tear Ya Down Instrumental Version - Bonus Track 45:49
15. Louie, Louie Alternate Version - Bonus Track 48:31

Motörhead
Lemmy – bass guitar, vocals, bass solo on "Stay Clean", second guitar solo on "Limb from Limb"
"Fast" Eddie Clarke – guitars
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor – drums

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

When Sir Geoffrey de Havilland first pitched his idea for a two-seater bomber made of wood with no armament, few people were willing to accept his design. But the de Havilland Mosquito went on to become one of the most successful and popular aircraft of the Second World War. The defence of this bomber would be its speed. Mosquitos were among the first multi-role combat aircraft: they could be turned to anything and excelled at everything they did. They were popular with pilots and were adapted into numerous different roles to great success. In this video, our Duxford expert Graham Rodgers tells us how this little wooden bomber came into action, and we hear from some of those who experienced its power first-hand.

See the Mosquito up close - book a visit to IWM Duxford: https://bit.ly/visit-duxford

Source:
Imperial War Museums
https://www.youtube.com/@ImperialWarMuseums

Spaghetti Western music (such as Ennio Morricone's scores in Sergio Leone's trilogy of film classics: 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More,' 'The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly') has an effortlessly cool and gritty feel. But what is it about these scores that made them so evocative? Joe investigates the song structures and helps us understand what makes them so good (but never bad or ugly.)

Note from Joe: "Sorry Friends - In the video I say that Spaghetti Westerns had their origins in Northern Spain - I did mean Southern Italy and Spain. Sorry for the slip!"

Source:
Reverb
https://www.youtube.com/@Reverb

Time Odyssey is the second studio album by guitarist Vinnie Moore, released in 1988 through PolyGram. As of 2013 it is Moore's only release to enter the Billboard 200 chart, where it peaked at #147.

Tracklist:
0:00 Morning Star
3:24 Prelude/Into the Future
7:49 Beyond the Door
13:19 Message in a Dream
22:30 As Time Slips By
29:12 Race with Destiny
35:49 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison)
40:29 The Tempest
49:18 Pieces of a Picture
55:32 April Sky (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Personnel
Vinnie Moore – guitar, production
Jordan Rudess – keyboard
Joe Franco – drums
Michael Bean – bass

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

New Hope for the Wretched is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Plasmatics. It was released on October 2, 1980, by Stiff Records.

Jimmy Miller, former producer of the Rolling Stones and Motörhead (a band Plasmatics would collaborate with in the future), was the initial producer for the album. He had a heroin addiction from the day he arrived in New York City and he was virtually useless to the project, nearly bringing the whole project down with him. Stiff Records fired Miller, and the album was finished by engineer Ed Stasium and manager Rod Swenson over in England. In addition to songs like "Corruption" and "Living Dead", linked to TV smashing and automobile destruction, the song "Butcher Baby" featured, as with the live shows, a chainsaw sawing through a guitar in place of a guitar solo. Stiff released it as single and it peaked at No. 55 on the UK Singles Chart, with the album reaching the same position on the UK Albums Chart.

The liner notes for the record proudly proclaimed that during the recording of the cover of "Dream Lover" (originally by Bobby Darin) the musicians were isolated from each other while recording and, during the instrumental break, could not hear what each other were playing.

Tracklist:
1. Tight Black Pants 0:00
2. Monkey Suit 1:43
3. Living Dead 5:03
4. Test Tube Babies 6:37
5. Won't You 8:25
6. Concrete Shoes 10:50
7. Squirm (Live) 13:40
8. Want You Baby 17:00
9. Dream Lover (Bobby Darin) 18:51
10. Sometimes I 24:23
11. Corruption 28:15
12. Butcher Baby 30:50

Plasmatics
Wendy O. Williams – vocals, saxophone, chainsaw, machine gun
Richie Stotts – lead guitar
Wes Beech – rhythm guitar
Jean Beauvoir – bass guitar
Stu Deutsch – drums, synthdrums

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

If you mentioned BMW to most people, they think of a car. They don't think of something with an engine of 1,800 horsepower powering one of the deadliest fighters of the Second World War. The Focke-Wulf 190.
Kurt Tank's design of the Focke-Wulf 190 was hunched like a pitbull. Very strong in design. Tapered wing edges. It could roll very fast. It could take a lot of punishment. And the performance was electrifying.
In this video, IWM Duxford's Graham Rodgers explored the history of Germany's 'Butcher Bird'.

Kurt Tank images:
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L18396 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-676-7975A-31 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-676-7975A-23 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-676-7975A-28 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Source:
Imperial War Museums
https://www.youtube.com/@ImperialWarMuseums

Antenna is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1994. It was the band's first album to be released on the RCA label.

The single "Pincushion", reached number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US. The second single "Breakaway" featured a non-album B-side: "Mary's".

Tracklist:
01. Pincushion 00:00
02. Breakaway 04:32
03. World of Swirl 09:29
04. Fuzzbox Voodoo 13:38
05. Girl in a T-Shirt 18:20
06. Antenna Head 22:31
07. PCH 27:14
08. Cherry Red 31:11
09. Cover Your Rig 35:50
10. Lizard Life 41:39
11. Deal Goin' Down 46:49
European and Japanese versions' bonus track
12. Everything 50:56

ZZ Top
Billy Gibbons – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals
Dusty Hill – bass, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "World of Swirl", "Antenna Head", and "Deal Goin' Down", rhythm guitar on “Breakaway”.
Frank Beard – drums, percussion (dominated percussion in 2)

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

Rant n' Rave with the Stray Cats is the third studio album by American rockabilly revivalist band Stray Cats, released in 1983 by EMI America. It was produced by Dave Edmunds. The album featured the No. 5 hit "(She's) Sexy + 17", Top 40 hit "I Won't Stand in Your Way" (#35) and "Look At That Cadillac" (#68).

Tracklist:
Rebels Rule 0:00
Too Hip, Gotta Go 3:26
Look at That Cadillac 6:02
Something's Wrong With My Radio 10:05
18 Miles to Memphis 12:42
(She's) Sexy + 17 15:41
Dig Dirty Doggie 20:58
I Won't Stand in Your Way
Hotrod Gang
How Long You Wanna Live, Anyway? 27:17

Personnel
Brian Setzer - guitar, vocals
Lee Rocker - bass, vocals
Slim Jim Phantom - drums
14 Karat Soul - background vocals
Mel Collins - saxophone
Geraint Watkins - piano
David Thurmond - background vocals
Russell Fox II - background vocals

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

German U-boat U-862 causes havoc to Allied shipping during a cruise to the Far East.

Featuring:
Dr. Jann M. Witt (Naval Historian, Deutscher Marinebund), Dr. Eric Grove (Naval Historian),
Dr. Christian Jentzsch (Naval Historian)

For more info:
Heinrich Timm
https://uboat.net/men/timm.htm
https://uboat.net/boats/u862.htm

+++ One of the very best Rockpalast performances I've seen - Alex +++

Setlist:
1. Baby Blue Eyes 0:00:13
2. Double Talkin’ Baby 0:03:47
3. Rumble In Brighton 0:07:44
4. Drink That Bottle Down 0:11:56
5. Something Is Wrong With My Radio 0:17:23
6. Built For Speed 0:20:03
7. Look At That Cadillac 0:26:31
8. Runaway Boy 0:30:59
9. Lonely Summer Nights 0:34:45
10. Too Hip, Gotta Go 0:39:07
11. Stray Cats Strut 0:41:46
12. She’s Sexy And 17 0:47:29
13. Banjo Time (Foggy Mountain Breakdown) 0:52:53
14. The Race Is On 0:55:25
15. Tear It Up 0:57:45
16. Oh Boy 1:03:00
17. Rock This Town 1:06:04

Every era has its heroes and every scene has its legends. The 80s had the Stray Cats and today they are the indisputable icons of neo-rockabilly.
When the US trio stormed the top of the charts in their adopted country of England, punk still reigned in the United Kingdom. But Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker brought that certain something that the mohawked men also had: a feeling for danger and rebellion. Impressive footage of the 1983 show at the Loreley was recorded by WDR. This recording that make the trio’s fascination still accessible today. The Stray Cats can come to live at home just as they were at their best: young, raw and wild!
Brian Setzer, today an “older statesman” of rockabilly and a platinum holder with his successful Brian Setzer Orchestra, works passionately but was perfectly groomed as he struck the strings on the stage of the Cologne Satory Halls. He was a “rebel without a cause,” similar to the young James Dean. But this guitarist has a desire: he wants to bring Rock n’ Roll back to life. He wants to play his guitar as Eddie Cochran did. No question that he has succeeded; he is still loved for this today and this is why he is the first guitarist after the legendary Chet Atkins to have his own signature Gretsch model which he plays exclusively.
The Stray Cats aren’t only made up of Setzter with his phenomenal guitar playing and his “crooning”. Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom are responsible for their special sound, too: Phantom’s simple drumming became an example for rockabilly drummers worldwide and his wild screams in the songs belong to Stray Cats exactly as Brian Setzer’s licks and Lee Rocker’s clattering bass do. He treated his instrument like a lover which he hugged or like monkeybars on which he did gymnastics. The bad boy attitude was internalized by the “street cats.”
The influence Stray Cats had on music and fashion is in hindsight unmistakable.
Today we enjoy classics such as “Stray Cat Strut,” “Runaway Boy,” “Rumble in Brighton,” and “Rock This Town” like they will never be heard live again with two concert recordings for eternity.

Brian Setzer lead singer and guitarist for the rockabilly group the Stray Cats. He also fronted his own Orchestra. Here is a quick look back on his life and career in music.

Source:
River Docs
https://www.youtube.com/@RiverDocs

"I got cat class and I got cat style!"
Stray Cats is the first studio album by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, first released in the United Kingdom by Arista Records in February 1981. It was produced by the band and Dave Edmunds.

The album was successful in Britain, peaking at No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart, and produced the UK Singles Chart top 40 hits "Runaway Boys" (No. 9), "Rock This Town" (No. 9) and "Stray Cat Strut" (No. 11). The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later listed "Rock This Town" as one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".

The fifth track on the album, "Storm the Embassy" was based on the song "Boys Having Babies" recorded in 1979 by Brian Setzer's previous band The Bloodless Pharaohs. The lyrics were subsequently rewritten about the Iran hostage crisis of 1979–80.

The album was only issued in the United States after the success of the band's first American album, 1982's Built for Speed. However, six of the songs from Stray Cats ("Rock This Town", "Stray Cat Strut", "Rumble in Brighton", "Runaway Boys", "Double Talkin' Baby" and "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie") were already included on Built for Speed.

Tracklist:
Runaway Boys 00:00
Fishnet Stockings 3:00
Ubangi Stomp 5:27
Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie 8:40
Storm the Embassy 11:01
Rock this Town 15:10
Rumble in Brighton 17:50
Stray Cat Strut 21:05
Crawl Up and Die 24:22
DoubleTalkin' Baby 27:35
My One Desire 30:40
Wild Saxaphone 33:37

Stray Cats
Brian Setzer – guitar, vocals
Slim Jim Phantom – drums
Lee Rocker – bass

Additional musicians
Gary Barnacle – saxophone

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

October 1944. After being credited with the first official U-Boat kill of the Second World War, German U-Boat commander Gunther Prien is abruptly recalled from patrol early and offered a secret mission to strike the Royal Navy at its home port of Scapa Flow. Fighting heavy currents and dodging blockships, Prien breaks into the anchorage, but there is no guarantee he will make it out again.

Featuring:
Dr. Jann M. Witt (Naval Historian, Deutscher Marinebund), Dr. Eric Grove (Naval Historian),
Dr. Christian Jentzsch (Naval Historian), Dougie Martindale (Author: Gunther Prien and U-47)

For more info:
Günther Prien
https://uboat.net/men/prien.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Prien

U-47
https://uboat.net/boats/u47.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-47_(1938)

Recycler is the tenth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in October 1990. It was the last album to utilize the band's synthesizer-driven production style which began on Eliminator and marked a return to the band's blues roots.

Tracklist:
Side One
0:00 - Concrete And Steel
3:53 - Lovething
7:19 - Penthouse Eyes
11:05 - Tell It
15:55 - My Head's In Mississippi

Side Two
20:31 - Decision Or Collision
24:35 - Give It Up
28:08 - 2000 Blues
32:52 - Burger Man
36:11 - Doubleback

ZZ Top
Billy Gibbons – guitars, lead vocals
Dusty Hill – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Frank Beard – drums, percussion

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

+++ English lyrics below - Alex+++
This is a song about the German plane Messerschmitt Bf-109 (Me-109). The Me-109 was the standard Luftwaffe plane of Germany until the end of World War II. With 34,248 builds, this is the most-built warplane in history.

This song was composed and written by an unknown person in 1944 in Oschatz in Saxony and was only known to a small circle of Luftwaffe members. This song would've been completely forgotten had it not been revived and used by the Swiss Air Force after WWII.

Lyrics:
Floats in the air,
high in the sunshine,
a little huntress,
Me-109.
ruler of the air district,
Over land and sea!
Everything must bow to you,
brave little Me!

Horrido, horrido!
Ruler of the air alone!
Horrido oh little Me- 109.
Ruler of the air alone.
Horrido little Me-109.
Horrido oh little Me,
ruler of the air alone,
Horrido little Me-109.

Hidden in the wall of clouds,
predatory creatures lurk.
Huntress discovered it,
rushes over.
She sneaks up on the enemy,
right up to his vicinity.
Shoot until the enemy is defeated,
brave little Me!

Horrido! Horrido!
Horrido oh little Me- 109.
You should always be the winner,
Ruler of the air alone.
Horrido little Me-109.
You should always be the winner,
ruler of the air alone,
Horrido little Me-109!

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Dirk Wears White Sox is the debut studio album by English new wave band Adam and the Ants. It was released on 30 November 1979 by record label Do It. It was the first number one album on the UK Independent Albums Chart when the chart debuted in Record Week in 1980.

The album was reissued in 1983, featuring a different album cover taken from a December 1979 video for the song "Zerox". "Catholic Day" and "Day I Met God" were dropped and "Cartrouble (Parts 1 and 2)" were replaced by "Cartrouble" in its single version and its B-side, a re-recording of "Kick!" which contained completely different lyrics from the rejected album version and featured Jon Moss on drums (who later went on to join Culture Club). This edition also adds two other songs from the same era not on the original LP: both sides of the "Zerox"/ "Whip in My Valise" single.

Reissued and revised version of the Ants first album 1979
Tracklist:
A
00:00 Car Trouble
03:18 Kick!
05:20 Digital Tenderness
08:19 Nine Plan Failed
13:21 Family Of Noise
15:53 Tabletalk
B
21:20 Zerox
25:00 Cleopatra
28:10 Never Trust A Man (With Egg On His Face)
31:18 Animals And Men
34:29 The Idea
37:48 Whip In My Valise

LP, US, Reissue, Epic – FE 38698, 1983

Adam and the Ants
Adam Ant – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, piano, harmonica
David Barbarossa (as Dave Barbe) – drums
Matthew Ashman – guitar and piano
Andrew Warren – bass

+++ Description, Tracklist and Timecodes by Alexander4History +++

Sleek, versatile, and lethal, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (or Me-109) was the Nazi Luftwaffe's deadliest fighter and one of World War II's most influential aircraft. This revolutionary Air Warrior was part of Hitler's early initiative to rebuild the military and establish a brand-new air force.

For more info:
Messerschmitt Bf 109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109