This is a pretty good example, I think – a UK no.1 from 1994 that was on a huge number of V/A compilations in the 90s. Its last outing on a comp was 2017. The band itself was created to record this song, managed […]

The one in the middle.

I had no idea Robin Askwith was in the Bee Gees.

Be honest, Diddley – *you* look more like Lennon than the statue. It looks like that guy from ‘Rolling Stone’ who always appears in documentaries as a talking head, or the speccy fellw in Jefferson Airplane.

If people remember Pentangle, it’s usually ‘Light Flight’ (an adaptation of the ‘Take Three Girls’ TV theme, which got them on TOTP). But their previous single, ‘Once I Had a Sweetheart’ – marketed as a […]

Some very good points there, Bingo. Food for thought. Purely on the final point, I think many of course could probably find common ground there. Regarding the recent Gallagher statue in Belfast specifically, I […]

I had originally posted a version of the post on FB and didn’t want searchable names to attract a load of moronic meat & potatoes rock-bluesers with knee-jerk reactions.

I’m not necessarily saying ‘take them all down’; I’m saying ‘stop building new ones’.

Yes, that’s the one that I exempted in the OP. The same artist created a Bob Marley statue that is representationally good too – though it’s been taken down in a road widening situation and now seems missing in action.

That link I mentioned: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/01/gary-younge-why-every-single-statue-should-come-down-rhodes-colston

Excellent!

You’ll find Maestro Mike a delightful and leisurely conversationalist.

Bill Leader can be seen (and heard interviewed off camera) in this 1965 Watersons doc from 25:08 – 27:30…

I only have a desktop PC (for which such threads cause no problems). Is it the case that most AWers consume the AW on telephones / fiddly gadgets?

A compelling argument…

A French earworm from 1981 – Chantal Goya ‘Comme Tintin’:

One for Twang – a catchy non-LP Tull single from 1978: