Revenge Recommends: "When Love Comes to Town" by B.B. King and U2

Blues legend, B.B.King has passed away at the grand old age of 89. Here he is more or less as I remember him, playing with U2 on their 1989 tour.

While B.B. is simply B.B. – a big-bellied, loud bellowing, nimble-fingered Blues picker – Bono, as usual, is in full twat mode, sucking up to his own personal musical version of Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela, while wearing a silly hat and talking in a daft accent. After the show, they probably had to pay the cleaners overtime to mop up, as Bono had been gushing too much.

Nevertheless, the palpable atmosphere of on-stage excitement and some powerful musical arranging, along with well-crafted lyrics, makes this an effective performance and a suitable way to bid B.B. all the best on the other side.

The Fly
Revenge of Riff Raff
15th May, 2015

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!