Reading about Billy Idol

For some strange reason, I was just reading the Billy Idol entry in Wikipedia. Wow - a few things about him:

• He's had a long, successful career
• He got a lot of mileage out of being a punk

And a question: how does one go from being in Siouxsie & the Banshees and Generation X to recording a CD full of Christmas songs (in 2006)? From punk to yuletide cheer? From original alternative to yuppie stocking stuffer?

People change. People grow. Amazing!

Content of this blog

This blog will be used for random thoughts, ideas, etc that I have and want to share. Also for occasional music-related stuff. Just fyi.

3-step Songwriting Technique

Just something I want to remember - not sure where I found this!

3-step songwriting technique:

1. write down the title of the song. Write 1-2 sentences, explaining what that title means to you.
2. Write 1-2 sentences - write info that needs to be conveyed in 1st verse to clearly lead listeners to your title. Ask "then what happened/what else happened" and write down ideas to be included in 2nd verse.
3. Fill in details and lines of lyric.

Ta-da! You have a song.

Sugar (haiku #1)

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Originally uploaded by Dark-Angel.

Sugar is a kiss
Lightly tickling the tongue
Then longing for more

Merry Christmas!

David King says: Merry Christmas everyone!

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Some of you will remember that I promised to do this ... well, I finally did. Yippie!

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