A bit late in the day, but just a nod to say that The Reluctant Beatle, the biography of George Harrison by Philip Norman, is available today on Amazon as a kindle daily deal for just £1.99. That’s all folks.

I know this post is a bit late, but hey, better late than never. Anyway, what I came on here to talk about is the above album- Hello by Status Quo. Released on the 28th September 1973, it recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and as far as I’m aware , it received very little coverage apart from a cover piece in Classic Rock magazine. In my humble opinion it is Status Quo’s greatest album, and one that had a massive impact on me the first time I heard it. You could say it changed my life. I was 12 years old in 1973 and already obsessed with music. I already owned three Beatles albums, Sgt Pepper and the recently released Blue and Red compilations, and I’d been buying singles for over a year, and was well into Glam Rock, Slade, 10cc etc. I was mainly into singles, while my brother four years older was into albums, especially the heavier variety, Led Zep, Sabbath, Floyd etc , which didn’t interest me at all at that age( they would years later). One evening towards the end of the year, he asked me to listen to a song from a new album he’d » Continue Reading.

Just a quick post to say that Electric Shock, from the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 years of Pop Music by Peter Doggett, is one of today’s Kindle daily deals at 99p. Thought it might be of interest to many on this site.