Paul Villers

Pick of the Political Pops: Drive By Truckers “Perfect Timing”

August 28, 2020 Paul Villers 0

This week we’ve been made aware of some interesting facts and figures. Apparently net migration to the UK (year ending March 2020) was 313,000 – up on 221,000 on last year. Xenophobes and Brexiteers must be […]

VERSIONS – “All Along the Watchtower”

August 24, 2020 Paul Villers 6

Here’s another in our VERSIONS series in which we take a song and examine it from different angles, different positions and different viewpoints. This time Jonathan Aird does the forensics on ‘All Along The Watchtower’.

Pick of the Political Pops: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young “Teach Your Children”

August 21, 2020 Paul Villers 0

A relatively short Political Pops this week because whilst we have sort of worked out how this happened we cannot fathom why. So no students sat A-Level exams this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Neil Young and Crazy Horse “Cortez The Killer”

August 14, 2020 Paul Villers 0

This week at Americana-UK Towers we have been poring over the history books and were reminded of the anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan in 1521 which essentially lead to the downfall of […]

VERSIONS – “These Days”

August 10, 2020 Paul Villers 4

Here we are again with “VERSIONS” – our look at the songs, the performers and the interpretations by performers of the songs. This time around Gordon Sharpe casts his eye over over the song ‘These Days’ […]