“The target of his affections was…17 at the time. ”

We know what you mean.

I’ve probably mentioned how a few years back, at a friend’s 50th, I asked the DJ to play My Sharona.

“I don’t play songs about pedophilia” was the snorted response.

I thought totes anything was passé plus.

One trusts the UN will appoint Paul Nicholas as international ambassador.

And let us not forget this top pop

The B-side of Wizzard’s first single….ladies and gentlemen, The Carlsberg Special (Piano’s Demolished Phone 021-373-4472)

Written by keyboardist Bill Hunt (uncle of The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt) – given that […]

For all the number who do it/used to do it, I don’t wonder that Aussie soapie stars doing UK panto are like those big name stars going to Japan to shoot TV commercials.

Nic Roeg, noted director and cinematographer, has called “Cut!” at the age of 90.

And a week or so back, same day as screenwriter William Goldman, we also lost Pablo Ferro, who was noted for doing interesting […]

I was in the Beatles, around 1965. Being left-handed, I was Paul on tennis racket, my younger brother Mike (not McGear) was George on tennis racket, and Mikey Mahoney from down the road was John on cricket bat. We […]

At art school, one of my lecturers addressed all males (staff or student) as “old chap” and all females (likewise) as “m’dear”….this was considered by all to be perfectly cromulent.

It’s at the end of one of the Previous Record or Another Record sides, and leads into the playout grooves, so that it repeats endlessly until the stylus is lifted off.

(Of course, my memory could be failing me)

No he isn’t.

*pythontragicmodeoff*

Flippin’ heck, now it’s Mike Noble, ace UK comics artist and illustrator – did a tone of stuff for TV21, among other things…google his work and you’ll recognise it straight away.

88 years old…

He was booked for a major pub venue here, but sold so few tickets that they apparently moved him to the front bar.

John Bluthal, comedy mainstay for more years than I’ve been alive, departs, aged 89.

Remember the pre-digital days when you took your exposed roll of photographic film along somewhere, and then went to collect the prints?

A work colleague of mine at the time came back after lunch one day, and […]

As a youngster, this line confuzzled me no end – who was this Nuff fellow, and what did he say?

Hugh McDowell – played cello with Wizzard and ELO, dead at 65 “after a long illness.”

And Francis Lai, whom I namedropped only the day before yesterday in the terrible film thread, has shuffled off at a ripe old 86.

Winner’s one good film was Hannibal Brooks (if not the least for the Francis Lai soundtrack)