I agree that it isn’t Simon and Garfunkel’s greatest song, but I disagree that it is made by the production. Have you heard the live version from 1969? It is just Art and the piano part (played, I presume, by […]

Slightly cheating by going with four, but if pushed I would chose the last three as having the greatest differences.

The Times they are a-Changin’. Songs of protest sung by a 22 year old sounding 60.
Another […]

That was my first thought too.

Keith Richards’ Life is 99p on Kindle, for today only.

We’ve often played it as individuals, with the winner being the one with the most correct answers. And we only allow one word for the second round, not two.
Oh, and we don’t restrict ourselves to real people: […]

It was in yesterday’s Kindle Daily Deal, sadly now over.

99p on Amazon just for today.

I saw them at the Warwick FF in the summer and very impressive they were too. If I remember there were a few jokes at the expense of the English one, who didn’t know what he was singing.
If the CD had been […]

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‘Marley was dead, to begin with.’ DIckens: A Christmas Carol
(It’s the placing of the comma that adds to the brilliance.)

‘All boys, except one, grow up.’ J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan
(Though on this […]

Looks like its back to the iPod.

I used to catch RadMac on the way to or from evening meetings back in the old days before Radio 2 closed down. And then it’s been catching them when travelling around in the […]

Without wanting to lower the tone – there’s always Mr Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”.

Bridge Over Troubled Water.
No, not the original, I am sure Mr Simon would never be ungrammatical. However, Miss Franklin adds her own introduction where the backing singers repeatedly sing, “Still water run […]

Just one more thing ….

Similarly, I can’t believe than nobody has mentioned Rev Green and ‘How can you mend a broken heart?’

I saw Stephane Grappelli when he was around 80/81 but can’t remember exactly which year. At my first Prom concert I saw/heard Adrian Boult conduct Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. He was 87.

I usually browse from my iPad which doesn’t have access to all my music, so I would miss something, but I’m on the Mac especially to add my list.

Big Big Train – Grimspound (though not as good as […]

Going to see/hear her on Friday for the first time. Really looking forward to it.

Agreed. Our conductor is a string player, amongst other things, and he often instructs us on where to place the bow to get the sound he wants. On the bridge gives a different sound to on the fingerboard. In the […]

To take a slightly complex example, the first opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Das Rheingold) has almost 60 different parts in the orchestra alone. Some of those parts are played by multiple players; Wagner […]