Single: Itchycoo Park Album: Sergeant Pepper Still love them both…

I confess I hadn’t really listened to Durutti Column until I read the Guardian article. What a distinctive and beautiful guitarist.

I’d add Kaya to the BMW albums, otherwise spot on…

Broke My Heart by the Saw Doctors captures the disappointment arising from a school football match, but also includes the word ‘parallelogram ‘…

It has to be The Story Of The Blues, Paul Oliver’s compilation, and accompanying book. I heard it first at a friend’s home. His dad was a film director, and a very cool guy. He put it on, and warned me that the […]

Exactly. J Geils at Imperial College 1973…still the greatest live performance I’ve ever seen. Long before Centrefold and Love Stinks and making a pitch for MOR sales, they were a phenomenal rock n’ roll band. […]

She drew out all her money out the Southern Trust
And put her little boy upon a Greyhound bus
Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West
Down came the tears from her happiness
Her own little son named Johnny B […]

Often used non-ironically by my grandfather, born in Wiltshire in 1892 and never left England. Obviously a contraction of God’s Truth.

If they sold out the Royal Albert Hall, it was because they were supporting Creedence Clearwater Revival in April 1970, on a bizarre bill which also included one man blues band Wilbert Harrison III (writer of […]