Stability is all.

Should the worse happen, to him … the virus will take a back seat, the tabloid media will put him on a Churchillian pedestal, and the pre-virus toxicity of Brexit will return.

From numerous p […]

Eton, Oxford, Bullingdon Club.
Needed dealing with at an early age and yet, like Johnson, he wasn’t.

From “Chronicles,” in Dylan’s own words:
“If my songs were just about the words, then what was Duane Eddy doing recording an album full of instrumental melodies of my songs?”

It’s the main reason why I was so […]

Sport:
Cornish Pirates and then Penzance A.F.C. and then … it’s “civilian time.”
Yikes!
So this is what civilians do when they should be at football.
Had a Leyton Orient match lined up when it all went tits u […]

Two (not one, two) documentaries on Ravi Shankar this Saturday on Radio 3.

Curtis.
Where to start?
The Impressions would seem a pretty logical answer.
Ace put out two excellent compilations (Definitive and Definitive Part 2) about 20 years ago, forty-eight songs altogether.

If that’s a Marva Whitney t-shirt, I’m off to Scandinavia.
If that’s a Whitney Houston t-shirt, I’m happy in the cupboard.

No offence.
It was used to point out what (for an album by a reasonably famous act, and with one of the most famous songs of all time on it) a pitifully small number 3,000 actually is. That’s worldwide.

I’m not […]

One a day. Started yesterday. “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” 63.

This isolation business got me thinking.

I’m as happy as Larry. So is everyone in the village. All standing in their front gardens talking to the […]

The reviews were fine, it’s a great album, it’s from 69, and the bonus CD featured her live set from late 68, so a really nice 2-CD set … but not lumped on with an erroneous LP.
Both magazines gave it a 3/4 page s […]

Saturday’s the worst.

Right now I should be laughing at any of the appointed disliked (Chelsea, Tottenham, Man. Utd., Leeds, Cardiff, Arsenal … you’ll have your own) who may have suffered misfortune.

Went to t […]

If I’m honest, how I always fill my time.
60s.
BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Putting up and taking down posters around the village (a role that has taken on quite a significance).
Wading through newspapers […]

I rather think, given the current circumstances, the BBC should have trailed the news bulletin … .. “In this news bulletin, there will be a mention of Bob Dylan. He is fine. Alive and well, as far as we are a […]

His biggest error was not to get a personality.
A intensive crash course in being interesting/self deprecating/funny (given by Alexei Sayle, maybe) should have been a non-negotiable in his appointment.

The litmus […]

Spurs? No adverts at the ground until the late dire 1980s? I don’t think so.
Spurs virtually invented ker-ching.
Possibly, there may have been no adverts along the shelf bit as the wall was made of an ornate iron […]

Pre-BBC 6 Music … arghhh, sounds good don’t it … and in the period when Radio 2 wasn’t awful (about 5 years), pretty much the only group Mark Lamarr played on both his Rock ‘n’ Roll and Alternate 60s Shows was the […]

Heard it all now …

Steve Double, fat, smug, thick as horse-shit, safe Tory seat, E.R.G., ardent Brexiteer – you know the drill – has stood up in the Commons and suggested that we should look more closely at i […]

In an incredible coincidence, the UK Number 1 single forty years and one day ago (22nd March 1980, apparently) was “Going Underground!”
What are the chances?

Dave Clark’s management of RSG! is a mystery.
So, too, his management of the DC5 back catalogue … and no vinly box set in 2020 is going to wrestle back that initiative, I’m afraid.
You can own all the baked b […]