“Tap, tap, tap on the bloody windows…”

Were there any yellow ribbons ’round the old oak tree?

Yes, quite often one’s search for them comes to a full stop.

Nice sleeve artwork by Mike Trim, who worked for many years as a modelmaker and designer for Gerry Anderson in his imperial phase.

…whose book “Bent Coppers: The Story of The Man Who Arrested John Lennon, George Harrison and Brian Jones” is out next week. Looks like absolutely everyone who has a Beatle connection is writing a book.

Wrote “New Toy” for Lene Lovich too.

I seem to recall that 64 characters is about as wide as you want a column to be, else it becomes difficult for the eye to follow the line (as well as know which line to proceed to next).

Yes, but Elvis can really sing.

He was a mystery to me till I saw Martin Shaw as Elvis in the antipodean touring version of Alan Bleasdale’s “Are You LoneSome Tonight”…my eyes saw the light.

Ron Cobb – political cartoonist, film production designer (you’ll have seen his work in Dark Star, Star Wars, Alien, Total Recall among others)…taken by Lewy body dementia at age 83.

And Roy Head, another […]

Newspaper comic strip character Little Orphan Annie’s canine companion Sandy had that one line for all occasions…and it began in 1924.

Kind of late to the party, but I just found out Kenny Young died last April on his 79th birthday. Quite a varied number of hits written, possibly not to everyone’s taste (don’t imagine anyone here’s likely to hum […]

It’ll be in the “Extra” section of the DVD….

Ladies and gentlemen – Mr Thurl Ravenscroft.

Start at 15:09 and let Keith Floyd show you how to (almost) do it…

“Didn’t they have to subtitle the Full Monty in parts of the States?”

They re-dubbed the first Mad Max movie for distribution in the US, on the grounds that audiences wouldn’t understand those odd-sounding Aussies.

A couple more years and he’d be clutching Yoko desperately, muttering “The precious….the precious….”

And Clockwork Orange starring the Stones…

Since no-one else has mentioned him, let it be noted that one-time bass player for the Bay City Rollers, Ian Mitchell, expired last week at the relatively young age of 62.

Sounds like he got your rocks off.

Bagsy itself comes as news to me – around these parts it’s just been “bags”…I expect it’s cultural differences striking again.