May be common knowledge to you English types but I was surprised to find out that Abbey Road Studios is named after the album not the other way around. It was formerly known as EMI Recording Studios.

The famous bass intro on You’re so Vain was played by none other than early Beatle fan and designer of the cover of Revolver Klaus Voormann

This is why I love the Olympics. Prior to the event all the talk was of how American Matt Biondi was going to match Mark Spitz by winning seven gold medals. The race commentary reflects that as it’s also all, […]

Agree 100%

When the Big Bash started in Australia it was along the same state lines as the Sheffield Shield and it was a bit of fun to watch on a summer evening. Then it started to become popular and it was […]

The Return of Bruno the Bruce Willis album

According to Wikipedia People magazine described his version of Under the Boardwalk as “Surprisingly okay”

150 posts and no one has mentioned Who Let the Dogs Out? Shame on all of you!

I had certainly never heard of her but that doesn’t mean much. I suspect an appearance on shows like that is more for people who aspire to be celebrities rather than anyone you ever heard of.

I remember […]

English mustard is the work of the Devil. Ask anyone who has lathered a hot dog with the stuff thinking it was the weak arse American style. (i.e ask me)

I would recommend starting with Season 4.

That season is somewhat self-contained. Early on Jerry is offered the chance to make a sitcom and he and George spend the rest of the season trying to write it. The […]

Golf, not now but twenty years ago, you could never really be too out of shape for it.
You used to see these fat bastards walking down the fairways smoking. That’s the life for me.
You can get a cart to take you […]

Okay,
This may not be exactly what the original poster was expecting but the story I am about to relate was a huge disappointment.

I caught a plane from Melbourne to Bangkok with a stopover in Brunei. I knew […]

Our perception of time is strange.
Elvis Presley has been dead for longer than he was alive. John Lennon is close to that if not already past it.

The Berlin Wall has been down for longer than it was in place.

Radiohead…

I went on a long holiday and had for my entertainment a discman and a handful of cds, all of which I flogged to death. One of them was a compilation album that had Everything in it’s Right Place on […]

It’s Still Living by The Birthday Party
recorded at the Astor Theatre Melbourne.

It’s a strange record that was released without the band’s knowledge or permission, supposedly to finance a movie of the […]

My oldest memory of really loving a song is dancing around the living room whilst listening to Puppet on a String on the radio.

My newest memory of really loving a song was sitting on a train (not dancing this […]

The Guardian’s spirit animal is Lisa Simpson.
You just know the writers spend their day screeching at people, pointing out their perceived faults and then when they go to bed they wonder why nobody likes them.

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”

Has got to be the most cliched sentiment

It may be something to do with siblings. American duo The Pierces have a song called “Secret” which has the following exchange…

“Allison?”
“Yes, Catherine”
“I have something I want to tell you, but
You have to […]

Ned Beatty passed away aged 83.
This is him in (I beleive) his only appearance in Network, a movie that looks better and better as the years go on

“Move over rover, and let Jimi take over”
from Hendrix’s “Fire”

and much more formally…
“Famous Blue Raincoat” is in the form of a letter so it ends with the words, “Sincerely, L Cohen”