Hmm, that notion of popular: ‘Scott’, ‘2’ and ‘3’ all did well at the time, ‘2’ even getting to no. 1 when that was a thing. 4 didn’t chart. So that’s retrospective popularity isn’t it? Again, how many people […]

I’m fascinated by the word ‘popular’. If you asked 100 Brits about Love’s Forever Changes, how many would have a clue what you’re talking about? 3? Anyway… Popular: Forever Changes Connoisseur: Four […]

A couple of friends recently went to Chicago and Tresco on the Isles of Scilly, respectively… I envied the latter, but would have to be paid a considerable amount of wedge (£50,000 might secure it) in 2025 to do the former.

In fairness to the guy, and it’s the only ‘fairness’ I’m prepared to grant, he was born in 1960. His record collection must be shite.

No you’re right. ‘Royal experts’ were wheeled out in droves twenty-five years or so ago and unanimously said that, I think to appease royalists who loved Princess Diana. I remember that clear as a bell, and I […]

I once went to a Roger McGuinn concert at Warwick University and was told at the ticket office that it was sold out… apart from ‘side views at the same price’. ‘Eh? OK. I’ll have a side view’. This ‘side […]

His father would have been upset. He… and I quote… ‘didn’t suffer fools gladly’. Zat so!

I’m not enticed by vanishing parts, nor in other cases (e.g. ‘Break on Through’ by the Doors) enhanced parts. I don’t want to hear what the group sounded like in the studio, I want to hear what the group sounded […]

Albeit unlikely… … but if future generations are to ever read this blog: People enjoying the greatest pop group of all time did not, repeat ‘did not’, go into this insane amount of detail in the 60s. […]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

OK, so this is more a question about Arsenal v. Brentford, but how much does an away ticket behind the goal for a Brentford fan cost in 2025? I did tell you it was more of a question about Arsenal v. […]

Too true. You could add a few other acts into the equation of ‘numerous 45s, not an LP’ group… The Action, The Creation, Honeybus, The Executive etc, although bizarrely it seems to add to their mystique. It […]

We must get Sherlock onto this, but it’s like they don’t really know what they’re doing or, hey, they don’t really care what they’re doing? So what happens to all the unused boxes? Do they house hedgehogs who […]

Try me best! It would be nice. Also, all the random stuff that has never had even a remotely ‘Bootleg Series’ clarity about them – Hamburg, Sheridan, Xmas 45s, Decca Audition, Live recordings, As/Bs, EPs […]

Yep, just read this on Amazon – £25 for 2 CDs (see comment above) which I will buy. Sanity at last. I’ll leave the dreaded vinlys to others. Not so rare a climb down though, I was bemoaning the Get Back series […]

I really like the Yardbirds, but effortlessly the least interesting thing about them is they had Clapton yadda yadda in their line up. The most interesting thing is they had Keith Relf, Jim McCarty and Chris […]

Sport Rather pleased Notts. pipped Surrey to the County Championship (I can’t stand Alec Stewart), otherwise it’s me 28th football fixture tomorrow, not bad for 4th October! TV Dancing’s started on Saturdays, […]

Glad Europe won, who wouldn’t be, even right-thinking Americans, but I’m with the great Tom Watson who rightly declared he was embarrassed by the host nation. Didn’t watch a second of it, and I ‘do’ sport.

But hold on… I thought Donald Trump’s America was blah blah blah. Hate the Ryder Cup, glad it’s over. Great result. Tell you what, Fromage won’t be happy.

Maybe Trump should have played? He’s great at golf. Rugby now has its own ‘In the hole’, it’s ‘He knocked it on, he knocked it on, he knocked it on etc. etc…’ Might have a word next time I hear that, it’s […]