16th August, 2018.
Yes: it’s true …
The Queen of Pop — Madonna Louise Ciccone — officially turned sixty today.
I’m not an particular fan, I have to say.
But have to give the Material Girl credit. She’s a good performer, she’s knocked out some very good pop tunes: my favourites get a look-in, in today’s Daily Teaser
And is possibly the savviest business woman in the industry.
Possibly one of the best business people, all round.
You don’t have a thirty-five year career in the music, without being clued up.
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The day’s got a sad side, too.
The Queen of Soul died, today.
Aretha …
There is literally nothing I can say or do to describe how her voice made the hair on the back of my arms stands on end: beyond saying she was the first of only a few singers who could make the hair on the back of my arms stand on end.
The only fit way of remember the best voice in modern popular music?
Is to play some …
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Sadness possibly doesn’t even start, now does it?
At any rate … ? Today has been a day off: one of mixed emotions … and extreme dampness.
Yep: I went and picked up medication …
And got rained on … !
Boy, did I ever get rained on!
I’m glad I got home, glad I got in …
And glad, by the time I dried out?
I had something to watch.
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