Both got worse the longer they went on.

I was keen to get the mono ‘Saucerful’ and the Ronnie Lane BBC album but I didn’t want to queue up from the crack of dawn to get them. I chanced my luck that these two might not have sold out and I was right. […]

Things go on too long these days. I liked the first two series. But that was enough. If you can’t finish a story in twelve episodes then don’t bother.

Well, you know he was pissed on Grundy too.

Guess we’re both guilty of Living In The Past.

God, I’m really hoping he does it on one leg.

They did quite a few ‘Ready Steady Go’s’- could have been there I guess. That show always thought miming was ‘fun’ for some reason and often did pantomimic versions of current hits ‘mimed’ by other acts. Have you […]

Can’t wait for stand-up comedy to enter into the orchestral concept era with gags that aren’t really gags and which go on for over twenty minutes and then to get blown back to basics by younger spikier comedians […]

I shall be staying away and popping in to a shop on Monday to see if there’s a mono ‘Saucerful of Secrets’ left over.

In my opinion the Beatles are probably as good as pop music is ever likely to get but I too failed to get too excited by this piece of news. Despite my admiration- nay adulation- it’s clear that the Fabs (in their […]

I love the wacky pop psychedelia of their debut but never really got into anything else they did so I’ll pass on this one.

If it was a football match I’d say that Macca was 1-0 up at half time. Then, after a well-contested early period at the beginning of the second half, Wilson gets a spectacular equaliser. With twenty minutes to go […]

Can’t let that pass. Sorry. It’s not close at all.

Brian Wilson’s reputation is based on one fine but relatively cultish album and a couple of admittedly ground-breaking singles.

Macca wrote ‘Yesterday’, […]

Okay okay. I’ll give you the first two. But ‘Con Air’?

And he hasn’t made a decent film in years. Same goes for Michael Caine. Another hugely over-rated actor. Made one or two great films earlier in his career […]

Sure sign of a shit film?

Nicolas Cage is in it.

Oh my God. What an amazing concept and who knew it would ever happen? I’ll be interested to hear the cellos on ‘Submission’ or the piccolo’s on ‘Bodies’ and the-

Hey. Wait a minute…

Mm. At the risk of lowering this to a schoolyard level debate along the lines of ‘my hero is better than yours’ I would be interested to compare a list of truly great songs written by Macca and Wilson. My guess is […]

It’s certainly a ‘critic’s favourite’. And Macca liked it. But I’m guessing the percentage of people on the 94 bus from Acton Green to Piccadilly Circus will never have heard of it.

By the time he’d tuned it our glorious Royal Balloon Force would have bombed the bastard.

I would argue that Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ is the ultimate concept album. Or sixteen albums actually.