Plus they are all pug ugly.

When The Pretty One thread was a going thing, I checked with my big sister, who was a teenager in the 60s; she assured me that pretty or not, Keith Moon was considered quite fanciable […]

A few not mentioned yet…

Chuck E’s In Love – Rickie Lee Jones
Davy’s On The Road Again – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth – Meatloaf
Lotta Love – Nicolette Larsen (though […]

91 comments…come on, only nine to go and it’s hamper time for KFD.

Miss Fox was my class teacher in third year at high school, 1975.

Alas, nominative determinism was not a familiar concept then.

His name’s probably completely unknown outside Australia, and barely known within it, but Ian McCausland was a graphic designer/illustrator par excellence – his poster for the Stones ’73 Oz tour is considered a […]

John Farrar who wrote and produced most of ONJ’s hits in the 70s

I’ve not seen Disney’s Pinocchio, so didn’t know that the fox calls himself Honest John…that would explain the origin of the villain in “Beany and Cecil” cartoons, the nefarious Dishonest John (whose business ca […]

Quite right – Mavis Cock would have looked great in lights.

Don’t forget the quick brown one that jumps over the lazy dog in every typing class ever.

And the lame one that, in tandem with his blind cat partner, bedevilled Pinocchio.

IIRC I came across the 365 Days Project while it was still a work in progress in 2003. As the site I’m about to link to puts it, “Some words to describe the material featured would be… Celebrity, Children, […]

Paging Dr Seuss…

If I’d bought the Sweet LP back in the day and heard that version of Fox On The Run, I’d be an unhappy camper – proof positive that artists aren’t the best judge of their own work.

However, I’m quite taken with […]

JW is one Afterwordie who’d know.

And yet who did Megan Davies (for it is she in the middle) up and marry? The fellow at top left…the drummer!

Once he showed her his paradiddle, she was putty in his hands.

Bob Rafelson, gone at 89 – without him Nesmith, Tork et al might have found some kind of visibility on the musical horizon, but it wouldn’t have been half as good without Rafelson and his idea for a TV show.

Alan Grant, writer of Batman, Last American, Mazeworld, Judges Dredd and Anderson as well as Strontium Dog among many others has died aged 73.

Drokkin’ heck 🙁

Here she is in a previous life…

Well, if it does, so does this

Paint It, Blackbird
She’s A Honky Tonk Woman
We Can Work It Out Of Time

Charlie Watt’s The New Mary Jane