This is much shorter and possibly more entertaining

Prince Philip.

Didn’t have any hits, but…

UK literary agent legend Peggy Ramsay posited that real talent lasts ten years; after that, it either disappears or just repeats itself. While there are no doubt exceptions, there’s more than a ring of truth to it

Weren’t there people despairing a year or two back because no-one would take their old NMEs and such…?

(Unless johnw is being ironic)

An honorarium…?

If you were run over by a bus tomorrow, would your nearest and/or dearest have any idea of their value?

If you don’t mind some iffy picture quality, a lot of old (and some really old) TV shows can be found here…

Hepworth and Ellen’s Word podcast 243 is devoted to this book and before a live audience Mr Cavanagh talks at length about matters Peelish. Your write-up makes a great companion piece.

Mick Ronson or “Snakehips” Johnson?

Modern Romance or Adam and the Ants?

First Class or Looking Glass?

Bryan Ferry or Chuck Berry?

The Mothers Of Invention or The Fifth Dimension?

Status Quo or ELO?

Pickettywitch or Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich?

Villain: “You have profaned the sacred scrolls!”
The Doctor: “Oh, come now, Hieronymous, enough of that bosh…”

Ah, the Tom Baker years…

Ash, Nick Cash, or Nash The Slash?

Even worse, the Question that they all ask:

“That new drama that’s on at 9.00 on BBC1/ITV tonight… could we make it a police thing?”

Wizzard or King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard?

Where were you when the outrage was expressed that the Battlestar Galactica remake was going to have Starbuck’s character as (gasp) a woman?!

(For ’twas she)