The above point about 20:20 and Test Cricket was interesting.

My first thought when 20:20 started (about 2005?) was “Well, that’s the spinners done for.”
Not true, they’ve been the most valuable players.
It’s far […]

That “15” number is incredible isn’t it. Get 30 in, piss it up, back door exit strategy, “Only 12 here, Officer.”

Bottom line:
(a) They don’t care.
(b) They are thick. She certainly is, and I wouldn’t have […]

“My Way.” Oh, yes, classy send off.

That is exactly what I was saying 35 years ago about Thatcher.
“Think she’s bad? Maybe. But you just wait until all these Young Conservatives grow up.”
So that’s… Cameron, Johnson, Rees-Mogg and […]

60s. Obscure/hip 60s… not rat pack, Tom Jones, anything played by Tony Blackburn on “Sounds of the 60s.”

Should anyone subject me to the dire 1980s or Vera Lynn (laughably Vera Lynn is believed to be the go-to […]

“Not” having a war doesn’t sit well with huge swathes of the electorate.
It’s something for them to watch on TV in between the soaps.

Personally, I’ve always been fine with it.

What a game.

I couldn’t quite understand why Australia let India get so many relatively easy singles and 2s with around 5-10 or so overs left when it was clear that their only chance of not losing was to crowd […]

When I hear The Ronettes it’s The Ronettes I hear.
If I listen to The Honeys, I’m not thinking “Ah, I see what Brian did there.” I’m thinking, “Wow, The Honeys are great. Where’s my surf board?”

And if you only […]

I’d have got 13 if I hadn’t actually “underestimated” the sheer lack of taste and tackiness of 1974, and the nudging up to rock ‘n’ roll by the likes of Lisa Minnelli etc.

OF COURSE, it would be Elizabeth […]

Let me get this clear.

The postman has just this minute been, and I am now “not” staring at pictures of Paul McCartney from 1965, Bob Dylan from 1966, and Jimi Hendrix from 1967, because of that […]

12/15.
100% on the 60s, useless on Elizabeth Taylor in 1974, 1980s Super Yachts and 1990s Girl Groups… i.e. just as I’d want it.

Seriously, I’d be the guy you’d want in a Sainted Dave quiz down your local, it […]

Wot! I’m not so anti-Sainted Dave.
He’s like Aston Villa, kinda always there. Aston Villa, The One Show, Snooker, Sainted Dave.
And, remember, I know someone he was in the same class with at school!

Whether that […]

You kinda hope security is tight for the Inaugeration.
Not much to ask surely?
The checks and balances on 6th January were far more lapse than they were at the Wendron United v. St. Dennis football match I went […]

Agreed.
When I wrote numerous letters about 10/12 years ago to Apple/RC/Mojo/Uncut etc. re: mono/stereo/bonus tracks versions being released on their 50th Anniversaries, I was laughed out of court.

Now seems to […]

I can’t reply to Moose above, there was no “reply” box…

He’s right (it might be sarcasm, and if it is, it’s mis-founded), the Beatles really haven’t exhausted the “Brand” by a long shot. In fact, they’ve been […]

I suspect the boat has sailed now, and they’d be heavily criticized if they did it (despite there being about 100 Dylan compilations… at least), but I too have wished for a Beatles’ As and Bs compilation.

22 As […]

Wonderful film. I saw it twice at the cinema and rather regretted not going to one or more of the other showings.
At £7 a pop, paying £28 to see it four times on the big screen would seem stupendous value in t […]

Unless you include comps. (e.g. The Beatles’ Live at the BBC or Dylan’s Bootleg Series) the answer from me is a resounding “0” or if you like zilch, zero maybe.
The only catch up I’m going to be investing in this […]

Q. What are Rees-Mogg and his crew talking about right now?
A. The War and/or Britain’s position in the world with numerous allusions to the War. They even dress like your Great-Great Grandfather to do […]

The trick is to not play the obvious stuff.
My most played discs are Past Masters Volume 1 and the two BBC collections.

That said, Hey Jude overplayed? Eh? Outside of football grounds and one charity shop […]