I loved this song when it was first released but wouldn’t dare tell my “cool” friends. I still think it’s brilliant.

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I was also embarrassed about the booing of the German national anthem, when are these morons going to give it a rest? I was particularly taken by the female fan in the crowd wearing a German football shirt while […]

What really makes me laugh is when the coaching staff and players put their hands over their mouth so people can’t lip read what they’re saying. Do they really think anybody cares? Talk about deluded.

Has anybody else noticed the studio pundits using the expression ‘false nine’? I’ve been watching football since the seventies and have never heard this expression before. Apparently it dates back the 1930’s and […]

“The first fifty years are the worst”. Advice given to me by an elderly work colleague when I was a sixteen year old apprentice.

When Spector was producing John Lennon’s ‘Rock and Roll’ album he insisted on multiple takes for one of the tracks. After about the 30th take an exasperated Lennon called out “fucking hell Phil, no wonder Ronnie left ya”.

A lot of the shows already mentioned plus ‘Fairly Secret Army’ starring Geoffrey Palmer playing a character similar to Reggie Perrins brother-in-law Jimmy, planning to overthrow the British government.
Also […]

Some of the films above plus ‘It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World’.

Bob Dylan/The Beatles

Murder Most Foul

I Want To Hold Your Hand

Midge Ure mentions recording Fade To Grey on Jones’s Jukebox. Rusty Egan’s Belgian girlfriend was asked to translate part of the lyrics. A few weeks after the song was finished she informed the band that her […]

I saw Japan supporting The Damned in Oxford in 1978. They were dressed similar to the New York Dolls and didn’t go down too well with the punk rock crowd although I thought they were good. Their single ‘Ghosts’ is brilliant.

John Lennon’s White Rolls Royce Phantom V (registered EUC100) was featured in the 1968 film Performance starring James Fox and Mick Jagger. At the end of the film gangster Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon) picks up […]

Ginger Baker and Public Image Limited according to John Lydon.

This wonderful song tells the story of a guy whose future wife has run off with a handsome Spaniard and how he intends to track him down and extract his revenge. It brings back fond memories for me of my Aunt Bet […]

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