**Edwyn Collins:** This is the man behind the iconic band _"Orange Juice"_. OJ pretty much went unnoticed from the time they formed in '76 'til the time the disbanded in '84. With a small cult following behind him Edwyn entered the arena of the solo artist and again failed to find commercial success. In 1994 he recorded another solo attempt with a small indie label in the UK, the album was c...
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The Guardian shares excerpts from a new book by Edwyn Collins's wife about life after his brain hemorrhage:The way it was for Edwyn, for Edwyn and me, was deeper and stranger. Before we could even think about his cleverness, his fabulous sarcasm, his highly-developed sense of the absurd (where they had gone? Were they coming back?), we had to wrestle with questions of simple identity.It's impos...
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Remember this moment of magnificent pop from 1994?Well oddly, yours truly can happily stream the song and video on this insignificant little blog page, whilst Edwyn Collins, the man who wrote the song and owns the copyright to it cannot share it on his own Myspace page. Apparently Warners Music are claiming ownership of the song.In an interview in today's Guardian (10/6), Edwyn's wife and manag...
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This article is courtesy of CNN.com. Sad and inspiring at the same time.Indie singer battles back after strokeBy CNN's Peter Wilkinson LONDON, England (CNN) -- It takes a certain guts for all artists to take to the stage but imagine how it feels when after suffering two massive strokes you can barely remember the songs that the audience has paid to come and hear.This is the terrible situati...
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So I watched this tonightand this a couple of nights agoboth flicks that have something to do with music, and record shops, can any one think of any more films with the Record Shop as an important element, setting or whatever....
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.....So, I declare an interest here in spinning this disc by my friend Edwyn
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I just heard this online. Sort of sounds like Iggy Pop meets Brian Eno.
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Grace Maxwell, the wife and manager of Edwyn “A Girl Like You” Collins, took to her husband/client’s MySpace page recently to rant about filesharing, major labels, and MySpace itself. In her first post (via The Daily Swarm), Maxwell describes how...
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