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1982: The university had some big gig going on – some work colleagues and I wondered if we could forge tickets (the company having just bought a clanky old printer). Copying the artwork was easy, problem was […]

Well, if they don’t own up…it was only because it was a question at a pub trivia quiz that I discovered the origins of Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself”

Have to admit I was taken aback at reading “…the last living Easybeat”, specially as it came after reading that Justin Hayward is now “…the last living Moody”; it’s like Alan Moore said, we’re in mortality […]

Kate Pierson’s popped up a few times here and there – REM’s “Shiny Happy People” and Iggy Pops’ “Candy” (though she might have had equal billing on that one). Also Graham Nash, Trevor Burton and Roy Wood did […]

Also on Peter Tosh’s “Walk & Don’t Look Back””

In the prehistoric past, when the press were reporting about this strange “punk” thing happening in the UK, the accompanying photo was inevitably either Soo Catwoman or Jordan.

Oz saddlepop funsters The Happening Thang – their light shone briefly but mighty brightly – two LPs in the late 1980s and they were gone (though the very wonderful Andy Travers and Miss Cathy continue to this day […]

Well, the headline does say “unforgettable and unforgivable”…guess “On The Buses” is in the latter category.

Gerry Anderson’s son has established a splendid Youtube channel which screens a boffo set of filmlets covering many aspects of the production of most GA series. Pleased to see that Sylvia gets airtime and her just […]

Just a reminder that lotsa radio comedy (among lotsa other radio broadcasts young and old) can be found at

Their mums have probably stopped asking them…

From 2007 to 2018 we had nine cats, all indoors. Then began the slow attrition; the last one went three weeks ago…they all made to 16-18 years old.

You’ll all have no doubt read Giles Smith’s “Lost In Music”, wherein he explains that in one’s developing years one can embrace or disparage musical entities for the most gossamer of reasons. I was take-it […]

Northampton writer Alan Moore had a Bonzo tribute band play at his wedding reception….he knows the score!

Crikey, how could I have forgotten this…?

If you don’t balk at the idea of Oz country music circa 1969, sung by an indigenous boxer, this might do.

Those two little kids crawling up the Giant’s Causeway on Zep’s “Houses Of The Holy”? The cream-covered miss on Herb Alpert’s “Whipped Cream And Other Delights”? (S’pose it depends on whether you mean famous […]

Actor yes, singer maybe not… (Not much to recommend of anything in that film, sadly)

Their keyboardist went into film making, calling himself Ben Dover. No idea if he went anywhere…