Fine, but you clearly don’t get the concept of ‘scale’. They’re re-selling a song no one bought and no one has ever heard as a… erm… ‘limited edition’. I’ve got news for you… it’s always been a limited […]

Not me, slap-head too.

No, completely shabby but, with the no-hits clash in mind, it’s positively Pele, Chaplin, Beatles’ levels of achievement.

Why would the Great War generation ‘obviously’ be the “Lost Generation?” Because they’re now dead? So we’re all destined to be lost generations! Bizarrely, aren’t the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The […]

Oh dear, it thinks they had hits. Bless. And ffs clear up your sick, everyone knows it’s yours, no one’s impressed.

Greatest generation? What about the Great War lot? Let’s call them the Lesser Generation! In November I’ll stand, far away from the throng, in silence (twice – the 11th and the Sunday). I was talking to an […]

Best book on skiffle? The bit (200 pages!) in Lewisohn’s massive tome when the Quarrymen were doing it. Seriously, it’s the definite take on the subject. Didn’t Bragg’s one repeat the oft-quoted and wrong line […]

Listening wise, maybe. Talking wise? Once upon a time there was this gang of lads from Liverpool…

Vinly. Surely it’s the branding?

Our brilliant local councillor got in quite comfortably. She’s a young, vibrant, beautiful, highly educated woman and yet, bizarrely, old white men and old white women who read the Daily Mail don’t like her. She […]

Interesting you should mention the Peel comments that send you back to an era. The Yardbirds’ BBC set does exactly the same thing, making the eradication of all those charming and essential introductions (I […]

Sport: Loads of it, none on TV. Isn’t the Premier League dull, and Man. City limping to the F.A. Cup Final has robbed the competition of a great game once again. Boy, it needs one. Still, Newcastle winning the […]

Banged on for ages about why the mags didn’t do proper one-artist CDs… and finally they are. Ahead of the curve again. 60s Soul (Mojo), Small Faces, Doors (both Uncut)… Ladies & Gentlemen, you have the best […]

And today, Monday, The Sun ran with it – they were hardly going to go too big on Liverpool winning the league!!! – and, for what it’s worth, Fat Boy Andrew’s ‘comeback’ is toast. Don’t think the Queen comes out […]

A few things in life come under the heading: ‘Too Much Like Hard Work’. This is a prime example… but I am grateful for the warning.

The no-hits… ‘Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust’. 1. It wasn’t phoney – millions of people around the World (that’s ‘World’, not ‘Camden’ and/or ‘NME readers’… some were even female!) bought Beatles’ […]

This’ll be the story that runs and runs from Monday. Cue: Prince Andrew and his team spinning it as we speak. ‘Falklands’ anyone? Cue: The Daily Mail and its stupid old readers slagging off Prince Harry. So […]

If I had had to guess a title I’d definitely have gone for ‘Record Store Day’. I’d have been amazed if it hadn’t been on there.

Don’t know about these clips, but I’ve heard many times of jazz musicians in the 60s being confronted with a Beatles’ song to play… and saying ‘Who are they?’ Yeah, right, chin-ny (and very much) reck-on.

They are so very very lucky. Quick tip: Buy the real ‘physical’ deal before you can’t… as ‘not being able to’ will come sooner than you think. I give it ten years.