He’s just done “Only in Monroe” which is a fantastic watch, including talking about cancer while huffing helium

There’s that photo, A Great Day in Harlem, with 57 of the greats, and Sonny Rollins I think is the last to go

Magnificent songwriter. Apart from the hits and Monkees, Fifth Dimension and Tony Christie hits, I always liked this groovy thing he wrote for Lesley Gore

With almost the entire media, national and international gunning against anyone to the left of Farage, I don’t think Kier and tfe labour party even had even a ghost of a chance. Even after 14 years of the T […]

I like Deram’s agenda. I think our music collections are similar

Absolutely. A career of Zoot Money (1 hit), Animals, Soft Machine (for a tour), sessions for Kevin Coyne, Jon Lord, Joan Armatrading, David Essex, Neil Sedaka (Albert Hall) Kevin Ayers, playing Tubular Bells in […]

The Police/Sting stuff is a bit depressing. I’m torn between a) Sting sold his catalogue for $200m and why is he so Stingy and b) Why do the other two need the money? They both have had hugely successful and l […]

The “It seems like end times” paragraph is fascinating. I’d always sensed since 2012 and “Cliff’s Law” that the quality of archive compilations had dropped somewhat, but I didn’t know about Universal jacking up th […]

….. He stepped forward, tripped over a rug, and fell into the darkness. …. He spun around, heart pounding like a drum solo at a mediocre concert. The briefcase was gone. …. Suddenly, a shadow moved. Or did i […]

Only Mother Nature and Father Time will succeed with this guy. Nothing else

The colourful psychedelic Blowin’ Your Mind! cover – And the contents thereof. Fabulous pop tunes, with backing by Eric Gale, Hugh McCracken and the Sweet Inspirations, plus it caused Van to make what became the […]

That’s a motherlode of bvs. This from approximately the same time has various uk backing vocal legends taking a bow. Many of them at the same time were singing of Euro disco recordings by Cerrone and Giorgio Mororder

One more – I co wrote and produced this for Top Billin’ , later to be called Definition of Sound. I was told the record company had booked a singer for the choruses, and in walked P P Arnold. The guys sung to h […]

The Ladybirds were also notable for Maggie Stredder and her glasses, They were regulars on the Benny Hill Show. Here’s surely their silliest moment. Reggae fans look away….

I didn’t know it’s the Breakaways. That whole soundtrack is fabulous

Sue and Sunny were on Joe Cocker’s With a little help from my friends. Their unmistakable tones are also on this