Serious concerns have been raised that some music causes violence through the use of lyrics and imagery which glorify gang crime and violence. So where do kids hear the opposite viewpoint from songs that knife and gun crime is just a waste of innocent lives. Is radio playing protest songs against knife and gun crime violence that is sweeping […]
CREATIVES used to think and say: “I can’t be replaced by artificial intelligence.”Now it’s happening. As my song explains ‘Artificial Intelligence is Out to Get Us.’ In the field of journalism, AI is being enthusiastically championed by bosses, Newspapers ruled by accountants and advertising departments have resented the presence of journalists for many a long […]
Facing Surgery – Don’t Be a Scaredy Cat THE new book by Alan Charnley ARE you afraid of going to the doctor? Do you put off important medical appointments because of fear?Writer and musician Alan Charnley was and did because of his bad childhood medical experiences, Then he was diagnosed with cancer and prepared for […]
When the cost of living is killing you and they say the recession hasn’t yet hit us yet who are they kidding? Are things really going to get even worse come winter, as predicted? How can the needy and those on the breadline cope with the current inflated increases in the price of food and […]
Noone has the time to talk, they pass you glued to mobile phones …
RIP Eva White, Liverpool stabbed to death in Liverpool. Eva, just 12, one of a growing number of young people killed by knife or by gun. Merseyside Police said officers found Ava collapsed on the ground with “catastrophic injuries” in Church Alley. ‘Knife and Gun Crime, what a waste, what a terrible waste of innocent […]
ALIENS have remarkably contacted a rock singer to publicise their fears for planet earth. Johnny Dysfunctional has now had the message and song that Aliens gave him called ‘Save Yor Planet’ played on Radio 6 by DJ Tom Robinson, who has since lost his show. Dysfunctional says: “Now there is a conspiracy that the government […]
HERE is a medley featuring songs performed in their entirety in the Cool Cabaret solo act: Frankie Valli’s ‘Can’t Take My Eyes off You’, The Temptations ‘My Girl’, Freddy Mercury & Platters hit ‘The Great Pretender,’ Roy Orbison’s ‘Pretty Woman,’ Johnny Nash’s ‘I Can See Clearly’ & finally The Real Things ‘You To Me Are […]
THERE are estimated to be a quarter of a million or more Elvis impersonators around the globe. The real Elvis played his last gig in Indiana, USA, in 1977. He shuffled off his mortal coil after a heart attack in the same year. So what is the attraction of impersonating Elvis? Elvis fans will say […]
IT COMES as no surprise to Johnny Dysfunctional that prescriptions for Viagra have more than doubled in the last decade. For it was a decade ago that Johnny began his crusade to help men in need by singing his song ‘Viagra’ at gigs. The songs tells of one-man’s erectile dysfunctional problem. This week it was […]