Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves were a London-based blues and rhythm & blues band, that flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. Lead singer and harmonica player, Blast Furnace, was the alter-ego of then New Musical Express journalist and rock and blues historian, Charles Shaar Murray.
Famous quotes containing the words blast and/or furnace:
“... able to
Mend measles, nag noses, blast blisters
And all day waste wordful girls
And war-boys, and all day
Say “Oh God!””
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)