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The Police, So Lonely
Part 33 of my youtube favorites countdown continues with The Police’s excellent music video for “So Lonely.” Released in 1978 from their brilliant Outlandos d’Amour album, “So Lonely” is an example of their classic punk/reggae hybrid formula. Sting went so far to say that the chorus was ripped directly off of Bob Marley’s “No Woman…
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Bob Marley, One Love/People Get Ready
In part 24 of my youtube countdown, we’re going to look at Bob Marley’s wonderful posthumous music video, “One Love/People Get Ready.” Why the slashed title? Well, when Marley wrote the song in 1965, it was inspired from an old Curtis Mayfield Impressions song “People Get Ready.” The original cut of the song from 65,…