Who are these Beatles you speak of? Are they any good?

I remember hearing this for the first time & finding it ridiculously exciting, and I still love it today. Sadly nothing else in his catalogue comes even remotely close for me.

Billy Joel. Sunny Sunday afternoon, huge field of people roaring “Uptown Girl” and “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. Perfect.

In the Ghetto

Elvis:

Candi:

The King has been dethroned.

Honourable mention to Eric Cartman:

Neither had I until I read that interview, now I can’t unhear it. Sorry…

I recall an interview with the band shortly after this was released where they moaned that a musicologist had been in touch because their single sounded like Material Girl. Madonna’s skint writers must have been […]

There’s a laptop table called ‘Dave’ 🙂

When my youngest niece was 6 her class was doing a project about the 1960s. While visiting I told her some basic facts about the Beatles and threw in a flippant comment about George being “the moody one”. Guess […]

Been working from home for a week already, not really a problem for me as I usually do a day or two a week from home anyway. Not unduly worried by tonight’s announcement as we’ve known it was coming. Our big issue […]

Here is the latest update:
NO*https://t.co/HShoQ7CbA6
For more information please reread.
*no pic.twitter.com/YOa5p5AFHW

— Scarfolk Council (@Scarfolk) March 23, 2020

The Fabs of course:

Ha! Me too!

I googled them recently to see if there’s any news (sadly not). What I did learn is that an academic I met at a Conference a couple of years ago was one of the band in that performance. Probably […]

No idea why but this instantly leapt into my head.

This particular performance makes me happy. Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott plus band rehearse Happy Hour in a hotel room.

https://twitter.com/jamajestical/status/1088551745100435456?s=19

I play this and everything’s going to be fine.

I wasted a very happy hour creating handwashing posters with this a couple of nights ago – https://washyourlyrics.com/

Thunder Road works well!

OK Computer anyone?

True story: at the bottom of our back garden is an old garage that doubles as our shed. When we moved in a few years ago we spent a couple of nights clearing it out as the previous owner had left it full of the […]

This got me through a very difficult time some years ago:

James Brown did some interesting noodle ads in Japan:

Loads but two that spring to mind. If I never hear Maxwell’s Silver Hammer again it’ll be too soon. And Hey Now! on What’s the Story… is a horrendous dirge, especially when you look at the material Oasis were […]