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Railroad Bill wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
Friday. Day off work. House to myself. Cricket on. Got on Popmaster and won! Pizza for tea, then off to see Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets in Hull… Oh, and it’s my birthday too… A good day. Hope yours was too x
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Railroad Bill wrote a new post 5 years ago
So, pub quiz, music round, name the artist… the first one we hear is 3 Times A Lady. We roll our eyes and put down The Commodores. When the answers are read out, 3 Times a Lady is by Lionel Ritchie! Turns out […]
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, "apart from that bit…" 5 years, 8 months ago
Ahh yes, the ‘drums falling down the stairs’ bit…
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Railroad Bill wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
I love Be My Baby by The Ronettes. It’s a great, great record…. but the drumming from about 2:14 to the end has always grated on me. There’s just too much of it. Hal and Phil should have clearly checked with me […]
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, The ungoogleable Quiz 5 years, 10 months ago
#1 – Can’t fight this feeling by REO Speedwagon… “and throw away the oars forever…”
#4 – Search engines? Bing, Yahoo, Qwant?
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, None More From Them Later: Last Songs 5 years, 10 months ago
From the back seat of our yellow Hillman Avenger, this always sounded rather splendid…
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Things I just learned 5 years, 11 months ago
My pleasure!
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Things I just learned 5 years, 11 months ago
Paul Shaffer, “Artie Fufkin Polymer Records” (and David Letterman’s sidekick) co-wrote ‘It’s Raining Men’ by The Weather Girls. You probably all knew that already…
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Other "Late Period" masterpieces 5 years, 11 months ago
“she sits there waitin’ in a family way… ”
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Replace the heads of musicians on album covers… 6 years, 1 month ago
Not my work (by the way). Was sent to me and I thought it was ace…
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Replace the heads of musicians on album covers… 6 years, 1 month ago
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, We hear surprisingly little of Terrorvision on these pages 6 years, 2 months ago
For info, Tony is recording an album with Texan, Ryan Hamilton. Here’s the link to their pledgemusic page…
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, When someone else's music hero dies… 6 years, 6 months ago
So it goes…
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Great Graffiti of our times 6 years, 10 months ago
Woody from Madness posted this on twitter… “In 1980 Suggs climbed on top of a van and wrote MADNESS on the Berlin Wall. Here it is today”
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Happy Father's Day! 6 years, 10 months ago
My dad’s not too well at all so I’m finding this lovely sad song even sadder at the moment. It’s John Prine doing ‘My Old Man’ by his pal Steve Goodman…
While linking to the JP video, noticed that someone has […]
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Any love for Billy Joel? 6 years, 10 months ago
Brenda by Captain Sensible
Brenda’s Iron Sledge by Robyn Hitchcock
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Well done Ariana Grande 6 years, 10 months ago
She’s quite popular with the younger bits of our house. She does a good Celine impression too…
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Later… Did anyone notice anything unusual about last nights show?* 6 years, 11 months ago
My name is Bill and I like Jools Holland and his programme…
Last night’s was female-heavy… ALL female perhaps?
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Pub Quiz 6 years, 12 months ago
He was indeed… The answer is therefore, Boris Becker and John McEnroe.
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Railroad Bill commented on the post, Pub Quiz 7 years ago
Not sure how to word this…
Name the two most successful german-born male tennis players ( in terms of grand-slam victories)… - Load More