I don’t mind that one. I’d go for Free As A Bird. Terrible idea, a dirge of a song. What was it someone said? After years of trying to make ELO sound like The Beatles he makes The Beatles sound like ELO.

Funnily enough, The Trial is one of my shower songs! Except the first verse of my version sounds even more like Tommy Steele than Waters’ version, which strayed pretty close.

I’m the opposite. I really like most of his 90s albums. I’d not bothered with them first time round, as conventional wisdom said he’d gone rubbish, but on rediscovering him (annoyingly, shortly before he died) I […]

You’re not wrong there. We’re just coming out of a 20 year period whereby rappers felt they had to fill all 78 minutes of a CD. So not only are they padded out with inferior tracks, thanks to De La Soul the discs […]

For everything we agree on, and everything you’ve pointed me in the direction of, we’ll have to disagree on The Wall. It’s one of my favourite albums! Never get tired of listening to it, although recently I’ve […]

I have constant disagreements with my brother in law about this. He is still very much of the opinion that you need to listen to an album umpteen times, whereas I no longer listen that way. I like everything to […]

I’m glad it’s not just me that can’t remember track names. I tend to use 1996 as a cut off point. I blame a mixture of old age and my medication, as my short term memory is shocking. Nasty habit of forge […]

Not sure whether you’re being cheeky there or not!

Gig going, or the lack of, is the downside of being poorly. I have to really want to see somebody to be prepared to stand for an hour and a half, as it c […]

It probably takes more of a back seat in most peoples’ lives, simply because more things demand your time as you get older and you don’t have the energy. Also, not many people would start varying their taste to […]

I voted by post last week and also voted Lib Dem. I checked the tactical voting website first, but it just told me to vote for who I was going to vote for anyway!

The rise of the far right is just downright […]

I’m expecting this to descend into a stream of 80’s cock rock videos.

“Hey lads, I’ve had a great idea for your new video. How about a performance video, where we have you entering the stage in slow motion, […]

I read something about this recently and it said that Richie complained to the director that the clay head looked nothing like him. “Lionel, she’s blind” was the response.

Wow. Bruce’s has done some great stuff in his career, but it seems the greatest thing he’s done was ditching that video.

Now that takes me back! It was on one of those K-Tel albums we always got for Christmas. Disco Fever I think. The album was full of rubbish, but it had one of my favourite songs on it, Silver Lady by David Soul.

King Crimson are the subject of the new Uncut Ultimate Music Guide. I’ll stick my neck out and predict it will be their lowest seller to date.

I watched the first episode last week and it’s okay. Nowhere near as good as the film, but some funny bits. There’s one character that was probably a funny idea when they thought of it, but they should have left […]

But surely the Stones’ golden age was ‘68 to ‘72, so splitting the magazines at the end of ‘69 makes sense, no?

I saw Eileen Rose twice at the Borderline. At one of them she had half of Del Amitri in her band.

Oh, no. Not another one of my favourite places disappearing. Having said that, I haven’t been there since moving back north 11 years ago, but I practically lived in there in the 90s. I saw dozens of great bands i […]

Big Woody Allen fan. Annie Hall is one of my absolute favourite films. My other faves of his are the aforementioned Crimes and Misdemeanours and Hannah and Her Sisters, along with Take the Money and Run and […]