“Dear Mr. Trump, We refer you to the answer given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram. Yours faithfully, The BBC.”

I feel that there’s more to the story than is currently being let on – and that Davie has gone for something else. It’ll come out shortly.

There’s no standard way to access the BIOS menu across PCs and laptops, with various different keys invoking the menu. Additionally, some systems have a separate key to activate a boot menu. However, if running […]

The intro to The Pet Shop Boy’s rendition of You Were Always On My Mind?

Party Fears Two?

It wasn’t even the first time Beethoven used that sequence of four notes to open a work, he’d first used it to open his Piano Sonata for Four Hands, which was published about 10 years earlier.

Frank Sidebottom also covered it. Yes he did, he really did! Thankyou!

I Heard It Through The Grapevine? Brown Sugar?

Black Lace, of all acts, covered it on their debut EP, which was oddly produced by Freddie ‘Parrot-face’ Davies, who owned their label.

The introduction to Soul Man? The Bo Diddley riff? The Fairlight CMI orchestral stab sound, which was lifted from a recording of Stravinsky’s Firebird on Classics for Pleasure?

The guitar riff from Don’t Fear The Reaper?

Both sides of the split single featuring Napalm Death doing You Suffer on one side, and The Electro Hippies doing Mega Armageddon Death Pt. 3 on the other?

8GB of RAM should be enough to be able to boot up normally. Slow performance like this is often due to the processor overheating and therefore throttling its performance to keep cool. This usually points to a […]

These upgrade kits use some form of solid-state drive – either a microSD card, or an M.2 SSD. There’s also a ribbon adaptor available for iPod models that use the uncommon CE-ATA interface that Apple used on some […]

The main issue I gather is that although the hard disk has been replaced by some form of memory card to increase the capacity, the amount of physical RAM on these devices hasn’t changed. RAM is used to store the […]

No mention of the Chaccone from J. S. Bach’s Second Solo Violin Partita? About 15 minutes of shear bliss, featuring a lot of double-stopping. Original vinyl copies of this 1955 recording from Johanna Martzy fetch […]

And Cheese & Onion – a club act who were touted as the next big thing, but who disappeared as soon as they appeared. They had one series on ITV, named Funnybone, which they shared with other forgotten comedy […]

The software that ran on the old Squeezebox devices is still available, and being actively maintained. It now goes under the name Lyrion, and will run under Windows, Mac OS and virtually anything else. It also […]

Elliot Carter was still composing at the age of 103.

Some years ago, I was reading the current issue of Record Collector and came across one of those articles on an obscure 1960s band that issued a handful of forgotten singles before disappearing – probably […]