Aged seven or so I became obsessed with She Loves You, continually playing it on the Dansette, watching the 45 drop before Ringo’s drum fill hurled me into the whole mesmerising, ecstatic song. He’s the reason I […]

Thanks for the correction – I will check that one out. There must be live vinyl triumphs (an endearing phrase from sounds hack Geoff Barton, probably his only one) from Croydon.

Come to think of it one of my […]

Thanks Barge for the prescient review. I loved Rodgers voice, my big brother had Free and BC albums and they left lasting impressions on me. Free Live is the one I still spin, can anyone else name a live vinyl […]

Just. This. Just. Made. Me. Cry.

I saw Passion Puppets play an, er, impassioned live version of this at Hammersmith Odeon packed full of screaming teens. The teens were waiting for the main act, Paul Young in his pomp, and this stunned them into […]

A main location for Death Wish 3 was the old Lambeth Hospital and streets surrounding. I was at uni at he time in nearby Elephant and Castle and we became familiar with New York Police Dept signs on the already […]

A featurette on The Ghost Goes Gear, the Spencer Davis Group movie that, despite co-starring Nicholas Parsons, caused Steve Winwood to create Traffic in the countryside.

Those are dismal nay abysmal lyrics. I’ve never heard this Cranberries master work and frankly have no plans to.

Jeff Buckley guesting at the final night of Elvis Costello’s Meltdown Festival: the girlfriend’s dog got run over just as we were leaving for the Festival Hall. I liked the dog and everything but… Anyway, my […]

Excellent podcast, thanks for reminding as I’d sampled but not until now got round to catching up. Would Jon Harris agree to be a guest do you suppose – surely he’d like a break from Brexit.

One Saturday, around 1991 or 2, I took my then young kids to a Festival of Icelandic Culture at the Barbican in London. We did a couple family events, including things like sitting in a circle around a storyteller […]

This skit end of year show on iPlayer now cuts Paddington and Thorpe trial scenes together just as you you describe, to great comic effect though with more Vaseline than marmalade!

A Year in the Life of a […]

The White Album? It’s Anthology 0 really. Thanks for sharing your enjoyable and opinionated chat – great listen.

Sadly not, BBC 2 only wanted one programme so I didn’t get to film the other bands – except the Zutons, which we didn’t use any of because frankly they were quite stoned. There was a good Radio 2 doc that covered […]

Superb alternative sleeve for Let It Be

To keep the Costello theme going, I once saw him doing his Christmas shopping in Bond St.
And I sat next to James Bolam on a plane once.

Ditto Never Say Die

I always loved this back cover. She’s hiding (not very well) her alarm that they’d just sold all their furniture and gone to live in a commune. Great album as well. Her and the husband did good work in adversity.

So here finally is Bill Ward’s VPL, bless ‘im