I love boot cut, with their hint of hippy homage, and have a healthy stock of Levi 527s. Perhaps they are more suited to the tall and slim? W31 L32.

I think Ray was in a very dark place at the time and, if I remember correctly, he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital after that gig.

Re: the three minute thing. This is mostly true. But on Arthur – one of their best albums – there are notable exceptions to the rule. In fact, it sounds like Ray may have met a bit of Traffic on the way to the […]

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Afterwards, he could wander over to the Chris De Burgh convention.

Have an up! This is hamper-winning material, but it’s early days, and a Dairylea Triangle will have to suffice for now.

To the tune of NTNOCN’s ‘I like Trucking’:

I like Taupin
I like Taupin
I like Taupin
And I like to Taup

Birmingham’s answer to Mike Nesmith he was not.

Yes, but this has been going on for decades now. I remember when the Imagine film was released in the late 80s. I saw it at St David’s Hall in Cardiff, and there was a small Lennon exhibition to accompany the […]

More Fabs deification (dai-fication?). Bit tired of it, to be honest. The Fabs will not resolve the climate crisis, abolish poverty, or arrest the latest Ebola epidemic. And fashion PR will continue to be the […]

Free shipping! That’s a bonus.

Pretty Green, Liam Gallagher’s ‘loss-making mensware brand’ used to have a decent range of Fab related attire.

Distinct lack of air guitar in the Long Room when the ground was blasted with Gn’R’s Sweet Child O’Mine.

This comment has more than a hint of hamper about it. But, for the record, it’s Bavarian Night, not Bavarian Nights.

Yes, I’m not sure how many were made in total, but I’m guessing somewhere in the hundreds. They […]

Thanks. Yes, I’ve seen that list, but its far from exhaustive, and probably won’t include incidental Manchester locations (i.e the play is not specifically set there). Also, I’m pretty sure it was around the turn […]

When I worked in London, I used to buy my lunchtime sandwich from Speedy’s Cafe on North Gower Street. Next door is used as the Baker Street residence of the BBC’s Sherlock.

When I was a kid living in south […]

Funnily enough, I was watching the cricket last night, and and a familiar tune coming from the crowd caught my ear. But I couldn’t quite place it (refreshment had been taken). I was thinking: ‘this is a really […]

The deflection rule is an interesting one. If the ball had run into the outfield and not gone for four, the etiquette would be not to seek an advantage, and the batsmen wouldn’t have run. Is that correct? If so, […]

Under the old rules, NZ would have been the winners, wouldn’t they? If the scores were level, it went to wickets lost. I had no idea about the ‘super-over’. Like the bolted on rawk music, and the forced […]

Macca’s Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), with reworkings of Beatles classics, seemed like a self-conscious attempt to put the Fabs back in the spotlight. His big cover feature interview for Q1 (1986) also […]