Surely it’ll be the people on the cover of Band on the Run – Michael Parkinson, Christopher Lee, John Conteh, Clement Freud, James Coburn and Kenny Lynch, although Lynch probably counts as an artist.

We were in Pizza Express in Sheffield one lunchtime last summer and he was in there with his young lad. My cricket-loving, PE teacher daughter approached him as they were leaving to congratulate him on – well, on […]

How about Hats Off to (Roy) Harper off of Led Zeppelin III?

Undertones – My Perfect Cousin ( “His ma bought him a synthesizer/Got the Human League in to advise her”.

Agreed. Would be in my top 5. Also as Gary says below, where’s All My Love?

I remember seeing the Undertones at the Top Rank in Sheffield in 1979 and after returning for an encore, Feargal announced that the band couldn’t be doing with all the going off and coming back again, so they […]

Anybody else fooled by the title in the OP into thinking this was about a secret Ringo Starr gig in Trowbridge?

This thread is well-timed, as I hardly ever remember my dreams and when I do they’re not very vivid, but last night I dreamt I was going to George Harrison’s funeral and had to pick up Ringo on the way. This was […]

As a kind of reverse ferret to my young waitress & U2 thread, I’d like to be the first Afterworder to admit that I don’t know who this Raye person is!

Exactly. This is why I was so shocked by the young lady’s ignorance. I’d have thought even the most civilian of households would have had a few U2 cds. Perhaps her parents only listened to Norwegian death metal or […]

That’s infinitely worse than my waitress not knowing who U2 were! Late 70s means it must’ve been less than 10 years since the Beatles broke up, so how would any adult possibly not know about them?

Her appearance at the Tory conference the other day, as mentioned above by Gatz, suggests that Truss is still convinced her demise was everyone’s fault but her own and suffers from a total absence of […]

Do you think he knows that YMCA is a gay anthem?

From the HJHs: Hey Food Paperbake Writer All My Cooking Norwegian Wood-Fired Pizza Here Comes The Bun Till there was Stew ….and one actual one – Mean Mr Mustard There must be many more!

Maybe the reason farewell tours never end is because bands never actually retire, even though individual members may give up the ghost. Witness the Beatles’ recent number one single, unaffected by the death of the […]

Stan was in good company in this regard. Johann Cruyff had his own deal with Puma and refused to wear the Adidas gear supplied to the Dutch national team. Not wanting to lose their captain and best player, the […]

Only on the Afterword could a thread about Thanksgiving morph immediately into one about Van Morrison, so to return to the original topic, can I confess my ignorance about Thanksgiving in general and ask the […]

Assuming you meant the UK govt, I believe it was when Ted Heath gave Alec Douglas-Home a ministerial role in 1970, six years after he lost the election to Harold Wilson’s Labour.

Television. Two near-perfect albums, then nothing, leaving just an awesome collection of 16 tracks (I’m drawing a veil over the ill-advised self-titled 3rd album after a 10 or so year gap).