Suggest switching Do The Dog for Doesn’t Make It Alright – surely the song that sums up The Specials (and probably the entire ethos of Two Tone)

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse did the renaming thing in their BBC2 documentary recently- also re-branded one show as Ask The Ugly Family.
The history must be older than that, and it does sound like an Eric-ism

So it’s not just me who calls them that
(who was it who coined those names. I’m thinking Terry Wogan? It’s early and my brain isn’t working yet)

There will also be a snap election in November.
Which will solve everything … probably

and no socks?

is the most perfectly understood question ever.
A fall back when there is a lull in conversation, and you just need to say something

I’ve got 19 including the aforementioned White Ladder, both Dido albums and that Charity Shop favourite of recent times – Duffy: Rockferry.

A List of horrors – yes some are, but I will go to my grave defending […]

How a Fan-based (partial) Estate owner can get it so wrong:
In 1982, John & Shan Bramley acquired the rights to all T.Rex and Marc Bolan “stuff” from 1972 to 77 (basically, anything done under the auspices of […]

The singular and albumular existence of Sweet were different worlds.
All those big Chapman/Chinn singles were homeless:
Little Willy
Wig-Wam Bam
Block Buster!
Hell Raiser
The Ballroom Blitz
Teenage Rampage

Me sir!

Interesting – and I think I may have tracked down a “source”.
That’s a chunk of Sunday sorted

It was the great leap forward the understanding of atoms, molecules and other science-y stuff, the world had been waiting for (but he didn’t want to change the world)

Yes. Reg always seems to be the open and honest sort who won’t be hiding anything.
He’s packed a fair bit into his years – the amount of tales to tell could stretch to a couple of volumes

Kirsty added a verse, which Billy now sings live

Pete Townshends “doomed” Lifehouse project was re-cast and spawned Who’s Next, but it also gave the stand alone singles:
Join Together
and
Relay

And another attempted Who Project – Rock Is Dead, Long Live […]

Beatles had a quite a few stand-aloners:
From Me To You
She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane
Hello, Goodbye
Lady […]

see also:
Ride A White Swan
Hot Love
Children of the Revolution
Solid Gold Easy Action
Celebrate Summer (his last single in August 1977)

It was classed as “Limited Edition” but something like 100,000 were pressed – so not really Limited (by any stretch of the imagination). These were all shipped out to retail in one batch.
The deletion on the […]

Masses … was deleted on the day of release