My vote goes for Please Please Me.
The opening “1 2 3 4” is the dawn of a revolution

Miller Anderson was also in the last incarnation of T.Rex

And another one to add to the Led Zeppelin / Spirit argument.
There’s a whiff of “Stairway” here too:

They’re good, but only a couple of them are “booze through the nose” funny
(well, not quite that funny, but properly amusing).

And yes, Richard Stott’s is the pick of the bunch

Did you check that they hadn’t gone down the dustpipe?

Frequently – I think of something, go looking for it, and if I can’t find it I become obsessed with finding it.
Recent obsession have ranged from the important (my birth certificate) to the totally trivial (a […]

Small … Far away

And here be a cover of the Rupert The Bear theme by the quiet, ever reserved Toy Dolls

Nah – he did Anti Nowhere League’s So What

I didn’t see it, but the Stiff Little Fingers Facebook page lit up when Alternative Ulster was played on Coronation Street t’other week

Your Caravan Pop is basically mid-seventies MOR “nice” pop – nowt wrong with most of that – I admit to owning and still playing some of those tracks.
It also has a whiff of Terry Wogan’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show […]

Yes, it was used as the theme for about 5 years.
Simon Groome went to Mike Oldfield’s studio to film him recording it.
Groome does the drum roll at the start

30 quid?
That’s an expensive Car Boot Sale (sponsored by Waitrose?)

His voice was pretty shot after the excesses (in both performing and shoving the powder up his hooter) that he was straining for a while and resorted to a calmer lower tone (when he remembered).
It was (I think) […]

Now that is an anecdote of a fairly high order

They’re getting them whether they like it or not

Never going to happen.
If there is no space, I will find space.
Or add space
Or move ornaments (I’m still in trouble for the last time I did that)

Definitely their best work
(Red Roses For Me and If I should Fall From Grace equal second)

Tips & Tricks (or accidental discoveries):
If you just press your finger in the text box (for what feels like too long), a menu with the word ‘Paste’ pops ups.
Hey presto, copy and paste action complete, and […]