Jailbait, by Ted Nugent

Front cover of the album Intensities in 10 Cities by Ted Nugent
Front cover of the album Intensities in 10 Cities by Ted Nugent – from Vinyl Records and Album Cover Gallery, vinyl-records.nl

Theodore Anthony Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Redford, Michigan. He started as the lead guitarist of the rock band The Amboy Dukes. After dissolving the band, he embarked on a successful solo career in the 1970s and 1980s. His second live album Intensities in 10 Cities consists of 10 songs recorded during the last ten dates of his 1980 tour; it was released on March 2, 1981. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight, by Spinal Tap

Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap – from Canal+

Spinal Tap is a made-up English heavy metal band created by the comedians and musicians of The T.V. Show on the American commercial broadcast television network ABC. The 1984 mock documentary film This is Spinal Tap gave a dramatised fictional history of this parodic band, which satirises in its image, sound, and lyrics some of the biggest bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The soundtrack of the film was released on March 2, 1984. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

The Cult of the Child, by Ernest Dowson

Elliott & Fry – Minnie Terry as Daisy Desmond
Elliott & Fry – Minnie Terry as Daisy Desmond (1889) – National Portrait Gallery

In 1889, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act. An amendment had then been proposed to ban children under the age of 10 from acting on stage, which provoked a widespread opposition in public opinion. Dowson entered into the debate, arguing that children are natural actors, that their performance is always artistic. Moreover, they have a wonderful charm, of which spectators should not be deprived. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

La Maye d’avril, par Jean Aicard

S.J. Thompson - The May Queen and her court
S.J. Thompson, photographer – The May Queen and her court, New Westminster, BC, Canada (c.1887) – New Westminster Public Library, Heritage Database, accession number 2728

Voici ma deuxième sélection du recueil Poèmes de Provence. En plein froid d’avril, une petite fille se prétend la Reine de mai. Mais ses grands yeux si purs n’annoncent-ils pas le moi de mai ? CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Une chansonnette de Nicolas-Germain Léonard

Frederick Morgan - Childhood Sweethearts
Frederick Morgan – Childhood Sweethearts

Nicolas-Germain Léonard (1744–1793) est un poète idyllique français. À dix-huit ans il fut, comme poète, couronné par l’Académie de Rouen pour une pièce sur les idées religieuses. Né en Guadeloupe, il y retourna à plusieurs reprises, et la postérité lui a reproché d’en dresser un tableau « champêtre », ignorant la cruauté de cette société basée sur l’esclavage dans les plantations ; son œuvre relèverait aussi d’un exotisme colonial à destination d’un lectorat métropolitain. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…