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this photoshoot for simon dupree and the big sound :3

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Song Lyric Sunday: A Dream Passing By

This week Jim is taking his SLS prompt from another blogger I enjoy following, as he tells us in his post Games and Playthings. This is our chance to play songs about toys, as suggested by Barbara from teleportingweena  – aka ghostmmnc. As I did last week I’m going back to the best decade ever for music – the Sixties – and am playing two songs that were released within six weeks of each other in…

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Unveiling Simon Dupree: The Man Behind the Band

Jeremy Pascall introduces you to Chart newcomers Simon Dupree and the Big Sound Articles published in RAVE magazine, January and March 1968 Unveiling Simon Dupree | “Put this down,” ordered Derek Shulman. “Simon Dupree is a yob!” The assembled company agreed with the statement. A crooked, toothy grin spread across Simon’s face. “It’s all true,” he admitted. The fact is Shulman and Dupree are…

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Los galeses Amen Corner con Dennis Bryon, con Blue Weaver, con Andy Fairweather Low en 1969 y su rutilante único número 1 en UK, "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice", principios de 1969. Partiendo del soul y el blues, fueron una buena banda pop de finales de los sesenta (Foundations, Equals, The Love Affair, Simon Dupree & The Big Sound, Timebox, un poco esa onda comercial). Su versión de "Bend Me, Shape Me" de The American Breed ya había sido número 3 en 1968. Shel Talmy produjo el paraíso de Amen Corner, una gran versión de "Il Paradiso" de Lucio Battisti con original de Ambra Borelli.

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Simon Dupree And The Big Sound – Broken Hearted Pirates

Portsmouth based soul band. Later emerged as progressive rock band Gentle Giant. Simon Dupree was Derek Shulman who along with his brothers formed this.

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Fun psychedelic pop, starring the Shulman brothers who’d later form Gentle Giant

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Elton John with Simon Dupree & The Big Sound. Scotland, 1968 | Photos by Peter O'Flaherty

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Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites / Like The Sun Like The Fire

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Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites

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Simon Dupree and The Big Sound

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Top 10 Songs

Tagged by @jaxwolffwrites really sorry for delaying this, I got way too distracted

Rule is to list 10 songs I’ve been listening to lately. I’ll do my best to put them into my wips

1. Caledonia - Cromagnon (mainly around 40 seconds in, and NSFW lyrics in the first verses) This fit too well as a pre-agricultural song with the heavy percussion and raspy voices as something innate and not meant to be gentle. Fitting for a harsh world where giant beasts are still the number one threat

2. The Work is Done - Birth Control (VERY nsfw album cover for intentional tastelessness) Musically fits with the counterculture section of the collection, yet the protag there doesn’t fight, so it’s more fitting lyrically for the last legs of a catastrophic global war a generation ago

3. Barbara Ann - Beach Boys (VERY sfw) Probably with Heavy Heart because the protag is a sappy man who likes singing to his crushes

4. She Gave Me the Sun - Simon Dupree & the Big Sound - Matches with the one above for similar reasons

5. What a Shame - Foghat - Either with above again or with Counterculture as the protag tries to enjoy life despite the piss luck of going nowhere

6. New Year’s Day - U2 - Part of Crisis Generation where everything feels silent yet chaotic at once. A desire to yell and reunite

7. Blue Monday - New Order - Likewise but for the cold, unfeeling nature of a hypermodern world

8. Swe Phitsong - U Ba Than - The gentleness of Pax Dei in the Spiritual Awakening before industrialized reared its mechanical head

9. Stompin’ Ground - Warumpi Band - Hard to put this anywhere honestly. Could be scattered in anywhere with small tight groups go loose.

10.  Rosetta Stoned - Tool (NSFW lyrics) - Either the last collection story for spoiler reasons or Heavy Heart but an out of body experience replaced with being in another world and conscious about it

Tagging: @athenixrose @ayzrules @bloodlessheirbyjacques @elycwinters @ellepacca @howdywrites @perringwrites @pluttskutt @pandawriterstuff @writtenbyrain (anyone else who wants to join!)

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Short term - (...And Beyond) — The Cleaners From Venus

Medium term - Please Come Back - 2004 Remaster — Simon Dupree & The Big Sound

Long term - Please Come Back - 2004 Remaster — Simon Dupree & The Big Sound

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“Isn't it Quiet and Cold” es uno de los cortes más relajados del debut de Gentle Giant en 1970. Parece un Paul McCartney pasado por la turmix de 10cc. Sus 2 primeros LPs los produjo Tony Visconti, y el ingeniero del 3º y 4º fue Martin Rushent. Los orígenes del gigante amable hay que buscarlos en Simon Dupree & The Big Sound.

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Gentle Giant - Knots & Octopus Features - Live 1974

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01 - Happy Castle - The Crocheted Doughnut Ring 02 - Kites - Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 03 - Deep Inside Your Mind  - Keith Shields 04 - Love - The Virgin Sleep 05 - Come On Back - Paul & Ritchie & The Cryin' Shames 06 - Baked Jam Roll In Your Eye  - Timebox 07 - Follow Me - The Californians 08 - 8:35 On The Dot - Peter Lee Stirling 09 - Woodstock - Turquoise 10 - On A Saturday - Keith West 11 - Puzzles - The Yardbirds 12 - Secret - The Virgin Sleep 13 - Leave Me Here - The 23rd Turnoff 14 - Shades Of Orange - The End 15 - I See The Rain - The Mirage 16 - Trying To Get A Glimpse Of You - Freedom 17 - Man In The Teapot - The Fire 18 - I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - The Flies 19 - It's So Nice To Come Home - Lemon Tree 20 - Movin' In - Toby Twirl 21 - My Little Girl - The Prophets 22 - It's A Crime - The Kirkbys 23 - Little Games - The Yardbirds 24 - The Muffin Man - The World Of Oz 25 - The Facts Of Life - The Specters 26 - Glasshouse Green, Splinter Red - The Kinsmen 27 - My Son John - The Onyx 28 - Mind's Eye - Ramases & Selket 29 - Only George - Scrugg 30 - Flying Saucers Have Landed - Paul St. John 31 - Colour Sergeant Lillywhite - West Coast Consortium 32 - Crazy Dreams - The Searchers 33 - We Are The Moles - The Moles 34 - Mr. Armageddon - Locomotive