Been ploughing my way through this morning’s Times with little luck.
The only realistic candidate i can find seems to be the same tired old joke about the UK being run by a gang of incompetent conmen headed up by a Billy Bunterish type that the rag has been running every day for the last 12 years
Boris Johnson has resigned!
Trump is finally about to be brought to court by the I Don’t Wanna Dance hitmaker. Yay or nay?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/01/trump-lawsuit-eddy-grant-electric-avenue
Eddie meets Eggie.
PS. Spike this, the idea of Donald ever appearing in court or being brought to book for anything is far too ridiculous
Try these.
https://londonist.com/london/latest-news/london-april-fools-jokes-2022
April Fools stuff is a bit pathetic, isn’t it?
(And especially so in our current world when a large amount of stuff is almost April Fool level stupidity anyway, day in day out)
We’ve had an April Fool’s decade. Is it midday yet?
I presume this is one:
I love Craig’s spoof sponsored walk above!
Rory Stewart tweeted an official announcement that he has taken the job as Head of Comms at No 10. I believed it for about 10 seconds until I realised the date. I mean it IS a joke…right?
Like the others above, life is so odd these days, that satire and “April Fools” are redundant.
This is old but still a masterpiece.
I need the bass plugin.
A decent one about La Bush:
https://www.katebushnews.com/2022/04/01/rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-turn-down-kates-instrument-request/?fbclid=IwAR0It40OT9AVr1joyDls7ejQ_lX3qG24uFskiwsmcJLlT4i8dq54lYhbmL0
Could have just announced a new album
Oh, come on!
This was my favourite. Mainly for the reactions
I haven’t spotted any, I don’t think.
I thought the Rishi Sunak ‘at least I didn’t punch anyone’ quote was one, but it seems that was written on the 31st.
Posted by a friend of mine on FB this morning. A couple of people were taken in by it!
The secret Capitol sessions:
Paul McCartney always said that The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” album was a big influence on “Sgt. Peppers.” Well more of an influence than you think. When they started planning out the album, the Beatles thought why not use the same musicians that played on The Beach Boys album? So in early 1967 John, Paul, George, Ringo and producer George Martin secretly flew to Los Angeles, and started recording the album with members of The Wrecking Crew. All of the session players, and engineers, had to sign a non-disclosure agreement that they would never talk about the session, nor would they receive any credit for playing on it.
Awhile back AFM session sheets were discovered for the Sgt. Peppers sessions at Capitol Studios in Hollywood where the recording was done.
By putting together the info from the sessions, personnel on the album were:
Lead vocals – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Richard Starkey
Background Vocals-The Ron Hicklin Singers
Drums-Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer
Bass- Carol Kaye, Joe Osborn
Guitars- Tommy Tedesco, Louie Shelton, Barney Kessel, Billy Strange, Glen Campbell
Sitar-Mike Deasy
Keyboards- Larry Knechtel, Don Randi, Mike Melvoin, Mike Rubini
Percussion-Emil Richards, Gary L. Coleman
Harp-Gale Levant
String- The Sid Sharp Strings
Horns- Jim Horn (sax, clarinet), Plas Johnson (sax), Ollie Mitchell (trumpet), Roy Caton, (trumpet)
The album was engineered and recorded by Chuck Britz and Bones Howe.
The tapes were then taken by to London for mixing and mastering.
The last thing my son said as he went to bed the night before was that he was going to wake up early and prank me by turning my alarm off so I oversleep and he misses the school bus. He didn’t. So I awoke him and asked him if he’d seen outside, cos there’s 3 feet of snow and no way the school bus will be running today. I’ve honestly never seen him get out of bed as fast. Ooh, he was cross.
Pranks as a fom of humour are a bit shit really aren’t they? “There’s a lion behind you! No, no, I was just kidding” etc. Grow up. /grumpy