Category: Spotify

  • There are those who can and some who can’t

    There are those who can and some who can’t. The number one song streamed on Spotify written by me. It’s The Ballad of Alaska. It’s been over a week since I wrote about the number 2 song, From Speke to Waterloo. I haven’t been holding back to ratchet up the tension, I have instead been…

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  • The river dances with the moon

    Excitingly, I’m up to the second most popular of my songs according to Spotify. Number 2 is: From Speke to Waterloo. I was expecting this to be comfortably Number One, as day to day, it’s the one that always shows up. It’s very comfortably number 2 and there’s quite a distance between this and the…

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  • Out in the suburbs you can watch grass grow

    Out in the suburbs you can watch grass grow. I’ve been away for a few days, to Whitby, a place I’ve never visited before, so I’ve neglected the top ten Steve songs Spotify specifies as super. Whitby is singularly scintillating. I promise to rein in the alliteration. At number 3 is… Holy Moses. This song…

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  • The music of the spheres

    The music of the spheres. We’re up to Number 4 in the Top Ten Songs Spotify Says Steve’s Stats Show. or something. This song is A Very British Ending from the What Would You Die For? EP. I’m made up this song has proved so popular. Popular in relative terms. Almost 10 years ago me…

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  • Only love can set you free

    Only love can set you free. The business end of the top ten songs Spotify stats suggest are my most popular. Number 5: This is a Cold War. This song is from the second of my Cold War E.Ps ‘What Would You Die For?’ The cold war songs all have the same thing at the…

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  • There is too much Heartbreak

    There too much heartbreak. I love this song, Number 6 in the Top Ten of my most popular songs according to Spotify stats. It’s called Heartbreak and is on my ‘Shake It, Make it and Don’t Fake It’ album. I wrote this for Ann. Music has often been a source of comfort even when it…

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  • It’s a Beautiful World

    It’s A Beautiful world OK pop pickers, Number 7 in my Top Ten most popular songs streaming on Spotify is Beautiful Girl. I’m aware of the recent outrage about Spotify and I sympathise with it, but I don’t want to get into it here. I often think I’ve wasted too much of my life angry…

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  • Oscar Wilde Made Me Do It

    Oscar Wilde Made Me Do it Number 8 in the Spotify chart of my most popular songs is Prince, Pope or the People? from the album It Just Is. I’ve always taken pleasure in sharing a birthday with the playwright, poet and popular poseur Oscar Wilde. I was born a few years after him though,…

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  • The end of the Cold War

    ‘I feel it in my bones, I’m kicking at the stone, and the wall comes tumbling down…’ It’s almost 30 years since the ‘fall’ of the Berlin Wall, a hugely momentous event in recent history, the ramifications of which are with us today. The end of history it was not. The show I wrote inspired…

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  • Annie

    The Music Minds triple CD I’ve posted about in previous posts is now on Spotify and iTunes etc and here’s the Spotify link if you fancy hearing my version of Ronnie Lane’s Annie. Play Annie by Steve Roberts I recorded it in my home studio in bits and pieces. I first played a guide keyboard…

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