My favourite drummer is Clem Burke. His drumming is as essential to the Blondie sound as Debbie Harry’s voice. Something I guess the producers of TOTP thought too, as here he is at the front, alongside Debbie.

Thanks for the great review. Looking forward to my box coming later. Although not looking forward to the problem of where to put it on my full shelves!

I used to have a Chevy Chase album, now you mention that. It was a bit rubbish.

The craziest story I saw this week, and it made headlines both sides of the pond, was that Paul McCartney revealed that John Lennon broke up the Beatles, as he was the first to say he wanted out. How on Earth is […]

Chicago’s House music pioneer, Farley Jackmaster Funk, used to live in Barnsley.

Yeah, er, finger slipped and I accidentally pressed the, er, wrong button…

Number 6 is the TARDIS

Unfortunately, chocolate is one of the many things that’s off my menu for the foreseeable, but I’m hoping I can start reintroducing things into my diet around Christmastime, just in time for the greatest cho […]

You can get it in the shops. Well I could, whilst I could still eat chocolate and I ate lots of it too. I saw some in the shop yesterday.

Ah, this seems to be an ideal opportunity to shamelessly plug my mate’s album that was released last week. His first album, Panic Grass & Fever Few, which was a Guardian Album of the Week, was a mixture of s […]

That is brill. I was only saying to my niece earlier that it’s not always wise asking for feedback!

Thanks Twang, you know not what you have done! I swore blind yesterday that I wasn’t going to look at any more jazz lists or blogs, because my shelves are full, my hard drive is almost full and, frankly, I r […]

Wes Montgomery is in there, so that’s one guitar player, with, funnily enough, the last album I listened to today, because the CD arrived this morning.

Hugh Jackman is happily married too…

Now I didn’t say that, did I [hurriedly looks at how I worded the previous post…]

I understand the consensus in Hollywood is that Keanu Reeves, Martin Short, Hugh Jackman and Tom Hanks are the nicest actors to work with, although the latter has a weakness for the ladies.

I had a chat with Maconie in the bar after he, David Quantick and Andrew Collins premiered their Edinburgh Festival show at the Soho Theatre. He’s a nice bloke.

My old boss at a nursing agency was a psychiatric nurse, and whilst building the company up he still did the odd shift in the hospital, as it was a great place to recruit other nurses. He told me that once he was […]

The year before I was 17 was a cracker – 1985. I’ve long since thought that was the best year for albums, but I reckon 2017 at least matched it.

I see what you did there!