I thought it a bit of a plodder after the first few minutes, then the glorious strings kicked in and I was sold – each subsequent play just gets better and better for me.

It’s a collaboration of sorts with a […]

Great review and great album.

There’s a stunning lullaby medley that opens the film, but not on the album unfortunately.

Ainslie Henderson, TV talent show fans will remember, is from Fame Academy (still the b […]

Done – would seem churlish not to.

23 from me:

Bill Withers – Hello Like Before

The Supremes & The Four Tops – Hello Stranger

The Isley Brothers – My Love Is Your Love (Forever)

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Best Thing That Ever Happened To […]

https://open.spotify.com/track/7aIiWbUU4oPVSH9J3EaT5V

I’m hoping for a bonus episode around Christmas – we had 3 4 hour episodes last December!

Yes – the Young Gods of course!

His takedowns of BA Robertson (Chart Music #27) and Toyah (Chart Music #39) are quite something. CM remains my favourite podcast, though if you’re new to them I’d start with one of the shorter earlier episodes and […]

I think I prefer these versions to Dre’s…

That’s the one!
I think the getting lyrics wrong extended into Smash Hits – I recall a Prince lyric transcribed as “Can you my darling, can you fix your lips”…

Well the song is the Tamperer’s Jackson’s sampling smash Feel It, but I don’t know the connection.

I would have started with issues of Disco 45 in the 70s, but I grew up reading Record Mirror from about 1978, which I loved because it had the charts, and also for James Hamilton’s Disco pages and Sunie’s sin […]

Yes, it was really good for a while, selling about 50,000 copies a week. Unfortunately at that time this was considered a failure, so a very smart man called Mark Frith took over the editorship, boosted the […]

Unfortunately Trevor H only produced the 4 singles, the “band” producing and writing the other 2/3 of the album, so if you have a best of… covering those it’s probably all you need – but they are treme […]

I remember walking in to HMV in Grafton Street back in the day and hearing “Please Forgive Me” – I thought it was tremendous, like a (then) modern day “Everybody’s Talkin’”.

Can’t stand his deconstructio […]

🙂

Aaliyah.

Sting.

Dunno – he wrote 9 Oasis tracks with a solo writing credit, including two A-sides, a further 9 Beady Eye tracks over the two albums, including 3 A-sides, and 8 tracks on his first solo album including 2 A-sides.

A dismal two (85 & 6), but then I don’t read a lot of fiction.

I’ve seen 15 of them as films/TV series/stage plays – does that count?

Ta – not familiar with most of those.