Yes I have the Nassau and Blackout sets- in fact I have all his official live recordings together with a smattering of, ahem, ‘unofficial’ ones. Whilst I agree with Diddley that the version of ‘Sweet Thing’ on […]

Mine doesn’t

He is to be applauded for devoting part of his set that day to the video of ‘Drive’ by The Cars which had such emotional resonance. But nervousness takes many forms and I think there was an element of forced […]

Michael Eavis seems to think that quite a few sets are the best he’s seen. I recall him saying the very same thing about Radiohead, Macca and The Smiths.

I don’t have a problem with the song choices. I would have been very surprised to see him feature ‘The Bewlay Brothers’ or ‘Quicksand’. My observation was that his stage performances over the years- and this was […]

Never really having been an avid gig goer I didn’t see him in the flesh but I’ve got a load of his live albums. They’re all pretty disappointing apart from, possibly, the soundtrack to the Pennebaker Ziggy film. […]

I can obviously sympathise with his nervousness. The expectations were huge. Strangely, his fear of live performances as ‘himself’ appear to have been there from the start- his insistence on creating ‘characters’ […]

Odd. My community of pals in the real world agree that Bowie was an unbridled genius but we are also in concordance that this performance was somewhat anodyne and peculiarly reticent. He seemed nervous.

The remaining Monkees might be good. (Less keen on the Brexiteer ones).

Disappointed there’s no Stackridge.

Less interested in The Smiths actually. He’d be great on his own.

Morrissey would be fun

I always liked The Sweet. There was a weird aura of danger about them despite the faux glam frontage. I got the feeling that Connolly was a bit of a hard nut. Loved his Brian Jones barnet.

For me this would be like asking a football manager to pick his best team out of the reserves.

Strangely, I find myself agreeing with both your points re the Sub here.

None of my favourite singles ever made number one. In fact most of them hardly troubled the Top 40.

California Son was very good. He may be a git. But boy can he sing.

This story featured as a One Show film a few years ago. Seen the clip a few times now and I reckon the overly dramatic brunette was clearly robbed. Macca obviously fancied the Jane Asher lookalike who gave a […]

It’s great and quite possibly his best ‘electric’ album but these days I find myself more drawn to the first four Tyrannosaurus Rex records. Wild and inventive with a flourish of fifties rock filtered through […]

I suspect all great works have weaker elements. That, according to ancient Islamic tenets (and Leonard Cohen) is how the light gets in.