Their Live in Roundhay Park album from the same tour is even more woeful. We saw them at Ashton Gate that year – my memory of it is that it was ok, but the clearest recollection is that Robert Plant was sat a […]

Discogs lists 197 live doubles from the 70s…! Hat duly tipped !!

Hot August Night by Neil Diamond – this was a secret pleasure as it was my Mum’s record! Fantastic selection of songs and the recording is wonderful. 4 Way Street – CSN&Y – not perfect, but worth it just for t […]

I have a huge affection for the Who, but like many bands from the 60s they clearly struggled to maintain creative momentum very far beyond that time. The Kinks, Stones, individual Beatles…they all had flashes of b […]

My younger sister died in July aged 70. Two years ago she started having problems swallowing and was told she had ‘pre cancerous’ growths in her oesophagus. It quickly got much more serious – frighteningly qui […]

Funnily enough we just watched the Stones Grrrr gig from 2012 – besides ridiculous shoes, Lady Gaga is magnificent on Gimme Shelter.

I too saw the original production, of which I remember very little except that it was fun. A few years ago we went to see a touring version in Torquay, and I was warned by our friends that it would probably be […]

I agree @dai, and I think my comments above more or less say the same. Lots of the bands (or, in the parlance of the time, ‘groups’) of the early sixties struggled to adapt to the late 60s milieu of course. The […]

Their run of great singles from 1963 into the early 70s was peerless really. One of my favourite compilations is a 2 CD set of said singles in chronological order. I also have 2 multi disc sets of everything they […]

Growing up, I cannot remember a meal which wasn’t eaten sat at the dining table. School dinners were also consumed thus, and it was a proper meal and no one brought their own packed lunch in those days. My p […]

I remember the first time Georgia came to Cropredy a few years ago. She was brought up on stage, and I think the band had paid for her to attend if memory serves. During Richard Thompson’s set I suddenly r […]

We’ve watched 4 so far and I don’t want it to end. I much prefer this to the other big hit of the year, Small Prophets, which I wanted to like, and it certainly had its moments, but ultimately I found a bit wei […]

The Exorcist – I recall I was out with a mate and his girlfriend and we’d had a few drinks and decided to see a late night showing. It scared the life out of us, and lives with me to this day. We went back to h […]

Isn’t the album chart now just a chart of what people listen to, not what people buy new, so it is surely bound to have all that music that the vast majority of the population like..?

I’m not at all surprised I haven’t heard it, or even heard of it – I don’t listen to the radio and what I stream wouldn’t cause an algorithm to pick it. As has been pointed out, we do not live in as much of a mu […]

A good question. Probably a 60s album as I had so few that I played them to death. The first I ever had was With The Beatles in 1963 and I must have listened to it hundreds of times.

These are films I return to regularly, enough for Mrs. T to comment something like ‘we’re watching this AGAIN.?’ American Graffitti Woodstock Independence Day Star Trek – 2,3,4, 6 Star Wars – the origi […]

Absolutely. In the US and Canada, their version is the one that is remembered, and is the one that inspired Brian Wilson to write Pet Sounds. Giles Martin talks about it a bit in the link I added downthread. I […]

An interview with Giles Martin about this project. As an aside, Mrs. T commented how he sounds EXACTLY like his dad!

Everything seemed to swing in the direction of vinyl and streaming with the Revolver set. The direction of travel away from CD based sets and to merely ape the vinyl sets with CDs was significant and annoying […]