There’s a guy (yes, a man!!!), pictured in one of the Guinness Book of Hit singles/Albums, who owns every no. 1 album released since the chart started.
I can’t help feeling it would be a much more interesting […]

Sky et al have a whole load of festival films on at the moment.
I saw Joe Cocker’s “Mad Dogs and Englishman” for the first time since about 1983 (Channel 4?) this morning.

Musically, yeah, pretty good, Delta […]

I fancy England now.
Even if Smith is picked for the 3rd Test, exactly how prepared/fit will he be?

If Leach can at least equal Lyon’s performance (in this Test he surpassed it) and Archer can reproduce that […]

As said above, Woodstock’s the end, not the beginning.
However, rather than wanting anything after it, I’m only interested in what came before.
I’d have preferred to have been at one of the early Richmond […]

Strange business, spending years buying CDs, in the early days at extortionate prices, only, when the things are as cheap as chips, to get rid!
I’d have thought that now was the perfect time to buy them.
I bought […]

2-cd version for £15 will be fine and, presuming Sainsbury’s stock it, it looks like it might be my first “new” purchase of 2019. I’ll play disc 2 on rotation for 5 days and then relegate it to the back room with […]

Cinema:
Checking before entry that I was part of a middle-class Metropolitan elite (I am), “Sometimes, Always, Never” with Bill Nighy, and ‘Marianne and Leonard.”
The latter has been criticised for Broomfield’s […]

Tell you what would be nice …
Australia: 550 for 7 declared
England: 444 all out
Australia: 250 for 8 declared
England: 100 for 1 … Match Drawn

In a masterful piece of timing and irony, it’s the anniversary of the last TOTP today.
A song is at no. 1 for 17 weeks in the U.S. and, now, with no TOTP, no weekly music press and no record shops, absolutely no […]

Got the perfectly serviceable 2-cd set and the (fantastic) “Hidden Treasures” by Dave, but I’d love to have the enamel badge. That wouldn’t be remaining on the shelf for five years at a time.

I’ve got one for 1959.
I’ll just do the Golden Age.
56 – Johnny Burnette & The Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio
57 – “The Chirping Crickets”
58 – “Bo Diddley”
59 – “Dance Album of Carl Perkins”
60 – “The Sound of […]

It’s variable though. Got some cracking £2.99s in the last couple of years in a certain Oxy in London, and never underestimate saying to the guy at the counter, “£9.99 squire?,” it worked for me on a late 60s f […]

It’s next to Tell Me Your Truth by The Manic Street Preachers, with the, erm, “rare” embossed cover.

For a subject (popular music) that so often uses the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll” to define itself or a perceived general feeling of freedom, it’s amazing how often actual rock ‘n’ roll is marginalised! Remember The […]

Might have a look at a few of these.
The same channel is also repeating old Big Match episodes and various Ali fights.

Completely agree with the comment above.

Delighted that they’re all still with us and performing live/releasing material.

However, take Dylan.
I am delighted that he is still around to churn away at Sinatra […]

“Dated” got be scurrying towards the TV screen at all hours during the dire 1980s.
The Servant, Performance, Easy Rider, Head, The Knack, Medium Cool, Accident … all would have been declared dated by the Radio T […]

This time last year … charidee shop … Madonna, Lighthouse Family, “This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours” (obviously) … very unpromising … suddenly, first 3 Keef Hartley albums on CD, bonus tracks, unplayed … 50p each. […]

My … erm … dealer has it right in the local town.
Don’t know where he gets his stock from but it’s constantly upgraded each time he sets up his stall.
Clearly got a significant amount of Zappa (the recent rei […]

That was good, wasn’t it!