I really liked that first album but once they’d got rid of Di’anno and become a pastiche metal band, that ended my interest.

I don’t know how old Eric Burdon was when he sang House of the Rising Sun. He looks about sixteen.

It’s ages since I last heard it and a recent thread led me to check out the track listing; I had been quite surprised it was rated highly. Anyway I could only remember tracks 1,2 and 5; couldn’t recall anything […]

Thanks for posting. I like the idea of Van Morrison pretending to be English for forty years to sell records in America.

Nightlife is better than it’s reputation, and the band were disappointed with the production, the material though is better than some of the later records. Philomena is typical; good song but wrong choice of single.

That acoustic version of Romeo and the Lonely Girl sounds appealing. Jailbreak itself is flawless to me and the one that the Lizzy curious should get. I’ve never really found Live and Dangerous to be as good as […]

As well as his well known works, I really liked Coming up for Air and Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell.

You can’t really think that it was Boris who ordered the wallpaper.

Johnson has wit and charm, so can float effortlessly through life. Starmer on the other hand, needs free clothes.

The man is vain, something that nobody could ever accuse of Boris Johnson.

Just levering in another reference to that album, Freddy.

Head to Asia and set up as an expert in whatever interests you and will also capture the backpacker zeitgeist.

I have one Quo album, On The Level, and I didn’t feel I needed another. It is though, better than those two Oasis mega hits.

I tried growing courgettes this year but the flowers kept dropping without the fruit forming. Plainly I’m doing something wrong as elsewhere it’s just complaints about the glut.

No sarcasm from me. I blame it on a Champions League culture that acclaims finishing fourth, and so failure becomes relative.

I don’t buy this “second most successful England manager ever” description. Counting Nations League, I make that five tournaments and no wins so that would be “the most unsuccessful England manager ever”

There’s a pleasing Karma that England knock out Ronald Koeman’s team with this dodgy penalty, all these years after Koeman pulled back Sheringham quite blatantly and were denied a penalty.

Will bring UEFA into car crash territory if there’s any controversy involving Bellingham. Imagine he gets sent off – or if he stays on when he could have been sent off.

I don’t like this new thing of throwing drinks in the air when England score, I end up looking round to check who looks like they’ll be mad enough, and edging away from dodgy types. It’s not like completely out of […]

But but- I threw my CD player away long ago.