Nick Drake was a county level sprinter as a schoolboy. Might’ve just toe-punted the ball, mind.

Greatest. Episode. Ever.

You’re right on all fronts. I suspect some tosh like That’s Livin’ Alright would win, if there were a poll.

Well played!
A little known lyric to The Persuaders went ‘Lord Brett Sinclair, Da-anny Wilde; they will persuade you to die’

That’s the second verse.
The mighty Ronnie Hazlehurst took this concept to another realm with Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, in which the title was spelt out via morse code.

John Foxx was a huge Grandstand fan, and was so miffed at The Motors’ purloining of the theme that he ripped their biggest hit off….

One criterion of a proper TV theme is that you can sing the title during the tune. ‘The Sweeney, The Sweeney’ is the exemplar here. This Is Your Life too, of course. Variants are permissible: EastEnders begins […]

Currently watching Sussex vs Kent in the T20 blast (all from the roof terrace, perfectly positioned to the side of the Hove ground. Pitch perfect, as it were). Then leaving town to swerve Pride, great idea but […]

Oh, it’s a cracker. The first thing I heard by The Distractions was their lovely cover of ‘Boys Cry’ on Mike Read’s evening show. Not a good looking bunch, which probably didn’t help.

Nowt wrong with a bald heed, @lemonhope. I shave mine every couple of days, and it’s a real pleasure getting to what I believe barbers would call ‘Micro Zero’. And anything that keeps us further from the c*** […]

Jonesy’s Jukebox always delivers….

And how. I’m a single parent, and my 18 year old daughter and I had had something of a disagreement earlier in the day, all of it tangled up in annoyances/upset around shifting boundaries, and then we watched the […]

Maybe I need to watch the first season again, and then go straight into 2. Life may be too short, though, which is kind of ironical.

I felt the same after a couple of episodes, but from 4 onwards it’s rollicking along. Well worth it. Unlike the second series of The Dark, which I find incomprehensible because of the gap between seasons.

Hats off to you, sir! Great show.

I remember a few years ago, when Elton decoded to get rid of all his hardcopy books and get them all on an electronic device instead. His accountant made a note of the purchases, in case they were tax deductible. […]

Which was good news for Fat Larry’s Band.

This all brings to mind the gambling scandal a few years ago, when the legendary racehorse training family, the Pitmans, were reckoned to be up to no good. I’ll never forget when I heard about Jenny and the bets.