No record shop within an hour of where I live, and, with a few exceptions over the years, I have tried to avoid Amazon for ethical reasons.

Any asides as to why a record by the biggest act in pop music, that […]

If there was a time machine we’d all be going back to the Beatles’ teenage years.

If you refute that, you are lying (BIG, BIG lies), and I refer you to the title of the third track on the second side of the […]

Only had the 1-cd version – no sale – and so a Cornish real ale drinker with a healthy supply of Ace Rock ‘n’ Roll compilations will be £20 richer next week… and, probably unique in the world of Beatles’ fans, […]

Why would he? He belongs to a (one of many) generation that think pop music started in 1965.

The more analysis on the group, the more I recoil and go my own way with it. Again, Hepworth’s take on “what they mean” in the 21st Century is the best, and most concise, I’ve read.
Sunny day today and so the […]

I must say, it’s put a spring in my step to realize that my fave Beatles’ albums (any of the 1st 4 in any order, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Help!, Let It Be, White Album, Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s, Yellow Submarine, […]

Yeah, I have no idea if it was funny or something else that it might have been (ironic?)… but Paul in that Car thing… erm… right up there with Michael Jackson duets and tartan trousers and Wings.
Gavin and […]

Doesn’t matter what the subject is… it’s always Golden Age at the top.
Funny that, who knew!

Greatest custards ever made:
1. Chipping Sodbury fete, 1966
2. Chipping Sodbury fete, 1965 – the one I prefer
3. […]

I find the Cilla thing fascinating… gender was an issue with regards to touring when she started out, I mean being the sole female on an entirely male bill (with the attendant largely female audience) couldn’t […]

Anyway… isn’t that ageist?

Are you George Bernard?

You’re the one who’s funding 78- year-olds with all those box sets.
What a prize mug.

Get born in the boring war.
Don’t get killed in the boring war.

Don’t get a childhood illness that kills you.

Do avoid National Service.
Become a teenager in time for Elvis’s first UK 45.

Rock ‘n’ Roll… […]

Not sure the Beatles’ camp learnt from this experience.

A whole host of their back catalogue (Tony Sheridan, Star Club, Decca etc.) is to be found who knows where, and it was trailed for about a decade before it […]

I remember a will they/won’t they narrative running through numerous issues of the Beatles’ Monthly about 40 years ago (reported by a young Mark Lewisohn) about the securing of the rights to the Beatles’ back […]

Cinema:
Rather bereft since Summer of Soul (the best film ever made) ended its run, and the calendar for my local cinema reads James Bond, James Bond and James Bond for the foreseeable future, but then I guess now […]

Despite my interest in sport (and, frankly, at the level I view and research sport, women are as numerous as men), I go out of my way to avoid the male species.
Don’t like them much.

Did an archival-type stint […]

So exactly like Run Devil Run then… always a year or two behind.

I got a 2-cd version of that album the other day in the charriddee – RDR and a 40-minute Macca interview from 1999 (the thing I really wanted) on […]

Any takers?
When did coke become a thing in the pop music industry?
I’ve asked before and no one gave a definitive answer. And I need facts.

I think Keith Richard did an interview c. Beggars Banquet (so c. […]

Brazilian rainforests, ransacked in the pursuit of yet more parchment to tell the story of Bob Dylan, could have been saved if this had been flagged up fifty years ago.

I feel sorry for the squirrels… if, of […]

My favourite album is Marva Whitney’s “It’s My Thing” from 69, but as comparing and/or contrasting that with the other two is a bridge too far… I’d go for “Free” by… erm… Free… also throws in Island as a […]