千树的音乐

披头士鼓手Ringo Starr第4张个人专辑。参与制作大牌云集John Lennon、Billy Preston、Klaus Voormann、Robbie Robertson、Harry Nilsson、Dr. John、Elton John、Nicky Hopkins等 。 John Lennon贡献了专辑同名曲Goodnight Vienna ，并参与了和声，弹奏了钢琴和吉他。Ringo Starr作为回应给予了John Lennon 专辑Walls and Bridges 的一些支持。 专辑封面取材自科幻电影The Day the Earth Stood Still（地球停转之日，1951），封面中Ringo的照片PS自影片演员Michael Rennie的剧照——在Michael的身体上换上了Ringo的头。电影原始图片：http://movie.douban.com/photos/photo/454026878/ 专辑Goodnight Vienna 不是电影原声作品，与1932年的影片Goodnight, Vienna（再见维也纳）没有任何关系，与The Day the Earth Stood Still（地球停转之日，1951首拍，2008翻拍）也没有直接联系。非要与封面取材的电影扯上什么关系的话，那就是影片中Michael Rennie所扮演的一个角色向地球专递了“peace and love”的信息，而“和平与爱”正是Ringo Starr多年来的个人箴言。 Goodnight Vienna 是Ringo Starr在后Beatles时期影响力最大的专辑，同名歌曲最高名次到达全美排行榜第8名，很快变成金曲。 翻唱自黑人组合The Platters的歌曲Only You (And You Alone)达到排行榜第6名，另一首歌曲No No Song更攀升至美国排行榜第3名。 但该专辑在英国并不被看好，排行榜仅位列第30位，但已是走下坡路的Ringo Starr截止到1998年在故乡最后上榜的唱片。

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列侬有大量的创作demo和outtake，但这张唱片入选的都是遍地都能找到的几首demo和排练录音。既然是洋子亲自编选，却没有足够的诚意搞点新鲜录音。 除了封面设计不错，booklet带和弦图谱，方便文艺青年自娱自乐，据说有一版还送拨片，但是歌曲的选择和后期制作方面不敢苟同。（2004）

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洛瑞盖乐许（Gallagher）是爱尔兰的摇滚第一人，他出生于爱尔兰。在英国每年一度的BBC吉他民意测验中他都被票选为年度最佳吉他演奏者，并且有着众多死忠拥护者。 《爱尔兰之旅》（Irish Tour 1974）是洛瑞盖乐许毕生最精彩的演唱实况录象。这一场演唱会的实况影像不仅是珍贵史料，也是一位用生命证明音乐的吉他英雄所献给乐迷最精彩的纪念。在现场的表演中Rory Gallagher展现出随和、亲切、专注的个性令所有人感动，一位伟大的摇滚人对音乐是如此的执着，不得不叫人敬佩。他总是面带迷人微笑对着摄影机示范的蓝调吉他技巧，听者都为他高超的技艺而惊叹。Rory和团员以简陋的演奏器材气定神闲地在舞台上奏出令人心跳停止的蓝调摇滚、在后台，悠然喝着他最喜欢的爱尔兰黑麦啤酒，这一切的珍贵影像纪录对于每一个热爱摇滚乐的人都是无限的诱惑、无法抵挡。而异常爆满的现场也记录了70时代青年们是如何拥戴他们的归乡英雄。片中选录了一段1974年情势紧张的贝尔发思特街景，是那个时代的验证。虽然Rory离开了我们，但是相信他的音乐灵魂会永远留在我们每一个人的 心中。 听了吉他英雄Rory Gallagher的歌曲。从"Cradle Rock"、至"As The Crow Flies"，每一分每一秒Gallagher均处于巅峰状态，吉他弹奏强而有力、歌曲主唱满载激情，可谓锋芒尽现，把Blues Rock最Powerful的一面表露无遗。

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Peter And The Wolf (Prokoviev/David Bowie) This is the story of Peter and the Wolf. Each character in the tale is going to be represented by a different instrument of the orchestra. For instance, the bird will be played by the flute. (Like this.) Here's the duck, played by the oboe. The cat by the clarinet. The bassoon will represent grandfather. The wolf by the French horns. And Peter by the strings. The blast of the hunters' shotguns played by the kettle drums. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. Early one morning, Peter opened the gate and went out into the big green meadow. On a branch of a big tree sat a little bird, Peter's friend. "All is quiet, All is quiet" chirped the bird gaily. Yes all is quiet. Just then a duck came waddling round. She was glad that Peter hadn't closed the gate and decided to take a nice swim in the deep pond in the meadow. Seeing the duck, the little bird flew down upon on the grass, settled next to her and shrugged his shoulders. "What kind of bird are you if you can't fly?" said he. To this the duck replied "What kind of bird are you if you can't swim?" and dived into the pond. They argued and argued, the duck swimming in the pond and the little bird hopping along the shore. Suddenly, something caught Peter's attention. It was a cat crawling through the grass. The cat thought; "The bird is busy arguing, I'll just grab him. Stealthily she crept towards him on his velvet paws. "Look out!" shouted Peter and the bird immediately flew up into the tree, while the duck quacked at the cat, from the middle of the pond. The cat walked around the tree and thought, "Is it worth climbing up so high? By the time I get there the bird will have flown away." Just then grandfather came out. He was angry because Peter had gone in the meadow. "It is the dangerous place. If a wolf should come out of the forest, then what would you do?" But Peter paid no attention to his grandfather's words. Boys like Peter aren't afraid of wolves. But grandfather took Peter by the hand, locked the gate and led him home. No sooner had Peter gone, than a big grey wolf came out of the forest. In a twinkling the cat climbed up into the tree. The duck quacked, and in her excitement jumped out of the pond. But no matter how hard the duck tried to run, she couldn't escape the wolf. He was getting nearer, nearer, catching up with her. Then he got her and with one gulp swallowed her. And now, this is how things stood: the cat was sitting on one branch, the bird on another, not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked round and round the tree, looking at them with hungry eyes. In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the gate watching all that was going on. He ran home, got a strong rope. and climbed up the high stone wall. One of the branches of the tree around which the wolf was walking stretched out over the wall. Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree. Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle over the wolf's head. Only take care that he doesn't catch you." The bird almost touched the wolf's head with his wings while the wolf snapped angrily at him, this side and that. How that bird teased the wolf! And how the wolf wanted to catch him! But the bird was clever, and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it. Meanwhile, Peter made a lasso and carefully letting it down and down and down, caught the wolf by the tail and pulled with all his might. Feeling himself caught, the wolf began to jump wildly trying to get loose. But Peter tied the other end of rope to the tree, and the wolf's jumping only made the rope round his tail tighter. Just then the hunters came out of the woods, following the wolf's trail and shooting as they went. But Peter, sitting in the tree, said: "Don't shoot! Birdie and I have already caught the wolf. Now help us take him to the zoo." Now just imagine, just imagine the triumphant procession. Peter at the head. After him the hunters leading the wolf. And winding up the whole procession grandfather and the cat. Grandfather shook his head discontentedly. "Well, if Peter hadn't caught the wolf? What's then?" Above them flew Birdie chirping merrily. "My, what brave fellows we are, Peter and I! Look what we have caught!" And if one would listen very carefully, he would hear the duck quacking inside the wolf, because the wolf, in his hurry, had swallowed her alive.

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