Birthdays on the Tube: 17-23 January | reviews, news & interviews
Birthdays on the Tube: 17-23 January
Birthdays on the Tube: 17-23 January
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Smoking guitarist Reinhart
An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. This week's include gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhart, who would have been 100 this week, Simon Rattle enthusing about Mahler and talking about the Berlin Philharmonic going digital, Roy Plomley on Desert Island Discs with Paul McCartney and a trio of divas: Eartha Kitt wanting to be evil, Spanish singer Lola Flores and the Japanese teen pop star Rika Ishikawa of the girl group Def Diva in a high budget video set in a gents' toilet. The song "Peace" topped the Japanese charts and sold a million. See videos below.
An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. This week's include gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhart, who would have been 100 this week, Simon Rattle enthusing about Mahler and talking about the Berlin Philharmonic going digital, Roy Plomley on Desert Island Discs with Paul McCartney and a trio of divas: Eartha Kitt wanting to be evil, Spanish singer Lola Flores and the Japanese teen pop star Rika Ishikawa of the girl group Def Diva in a high budget video set in a gents' toilet. The song "Peace" topped the Japanese charts and sold a million. See videos below.
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