You had me at “lack of appeal to young people.”
Don’t care who it is, sign me up.

And doesn’t the story go that Paul asked her which out of “From Me To You” and “Thank You Girl” should be the a-side of the next Beatles’ platter and took her advice on the former?

I suspect an overwhelming majority of the population (90%?) haven’t seen an episode.
Indeed, it’s the ability to avoid such things (with ease) that differentiates the fragmented society of the 21st Century from […]

Tricky business.
Personally, I think it should be in/shake it all about/out; not in/out/will they or won’t they shake it all about?
I don’t like the flexibility of gigs and so have rarely frequented them.

Get on […]

Same here.
Got the 4-cd comp. (mint) featuring the Wrecking Crew in a charidee shop for £4.50 – good job it was a 12-year old vinly guy in front of me, didn’t have a Scooby – went to the rugby.
Check this out: […]

Spurs and Arsenal.
A bit like Coe and Ovett if Coe and Ovett had both been desperate to finish fourth.

Allegations are not the only criteria. Paying to go on a website with underage material is another, and is easily proved.
Now, if Cliff had done that you think the South Yorkshire Police and their helicopter pals […]

If Cliff had the reverence afforded to him like a Dylan, Beatle or Stone, he wouldn’t have been treated in that way.
It’s incredible to think that isn’t it?
But all evidence points to it being the case.

You’re right to be surprised.
My memory tells me that the papers were far more interested in the story from a Peter Stringfellow/London nightclub angle than the sense of it being illegal.

However, I suspect some […]

When did John Lydon start looking like the lost twin of Nigel Kennedy?

He’s been a huge influence on me.
I reckon a solid 50% of my record collection can be directly attributed to the influences of Dylan … folk, blues, doo wop, rock ‘n’ roll, c & w etc.

Strangely, although a Bob a […]

I haven’t met one student of classical music (school, 6th form, university, adult life) who knew the first thing about pop music, unless it was shite pop music (Bucks Fizz, Michael Bolton, Sting). Stephen Fry fits […]

Two lost episodes of “The Likely Lads” have been found and, in a spirit rare in these days of vinly-only releases and the like, can be picked up for a fiver on the latest dvd of the feature film.

It means “found” […]

No excuse. The courtship then (to me, maybe not the tabloids, but then I hated/still hate the tabloids) and now beggars belief.
Weird at the time – the dire 1980s – that the most talked about thing about The […]

Connected to the “shelving” issue elsewhere, re: Bobster reading material –

A Mojo/Uncut Special and Wikipedia, and … that’s it.

A cursory knowledge of either will immediately place you in the top 0.1% of D […]

The greatest song ever written for dodgers (great timing pop-pickers!) might be that.
Who knows? I for one am not hanging around to find out.

I almost head-butted an 80-year-old at a recent History Archive meeting … so good luck with being a Local Councillor.

AW T-shirt:
“While we’re talking Traffic b-sides …”

That track was “Shanghai Noodle Factory,” the b-side of a flop 45 and, rather splendidly, my fave Traffic song.
Not too much of a surprise as my fave Kinks’ song is “This Is Where I Belong,” a b-side of a European […]

March/April – tricky time of year.
Cheltenham, Red Nose Day, Record Store Day, Aintree, St. Patrick’s Day … not to mention “Brexit” … so many things to actively avoid like the plague. Dodgers everywhere.
Th […]