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Brother pays tribute to Nairn-born drummer Mark Ellen By Donald Wilson Published: 18:30, 02 March 2021
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Vanity Fare on tour in 2015.
A NAIRN musician who played with some of the music greats of the sixties and seventies has died suddenly at his home on the Isle of Sheppey
Mark Ellen (72) was a drummer in the band Vanity Fare who had a hit with their song Hitchin a Ride in 1970.
Mark was the son of Robbie Ellen and former Nairn District Councillor Chrissie Ellen.
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45 Iconic One-Hit Wonders From the Past 50 Years
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/2/21 at 6:30 PM EST
We re all familiar with the one-hit wonder that artist who storms onto the music scene with a smash hit, only to disappear as soon as he or she arrived. Some one-hit wonders continue making music for years but never manage to produce another successful song. Others leave the industry altogether after their mega-hits, cashing in their earnings and quitting while they re ahead. A few artists on this list may have gone on to release more hit songs, had their lives not been cut short.
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Let’s turn the dial back (to the left, if you will) to February 4, 1986, almost thirty-five years ago. A couple of weeks after their infamous Saturday Night Live performance, the Replacements took on Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. The idea behind this gig was to capture their excellence on stage. Instead of being released shortly after,
For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986hit the fan in 2017.
There is a lot of life in these songs. This recording captures the range of their catalogue, riddled with their fast and loud playing. You are greeted with two
Hootenanny (1983) songs back to back (baby, that’s a fact) full of fury. They play their newer stuff off of