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.
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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 […]

Happy Birthday

Johnny Rotten’s chat up line in The Sex Pistols ‘Satellite’

“You’re looking like a big fat pink baked bean”.

1. I Am The Walrus
2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Downloaded and looking forward to reading it. Thank you.

1 – The Fortune Cookie
2 – Saturday Night Sunday Morning
3 – The Apartment
4 – Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
5 – Les Diaboliques
6 – White Heat
7 – If….
8 – Performance
9 – Angels With Dirty Faces
10 – […]

Happy birthday Ringo. Apparently before recording it himself, Ringo offered ‘Back Off Boogaloo’ to Cilla Black but she turned it down. I would’ve loved to have heard her version. I would also like to know who’s […]

Jackie Leven – Single Father

Thomas Wayne – Tragedy