Similar position to you. I’m a freelance market research data analyst. Most of my recent work has been Sports Research & there’s a usual fallow period at the start of the year, before everything picks up in Mar […]

Whenever talking about Thunderbirds episodes, it’s always “The one on the bridge”

Another vote for Captain Scarlet. I was five in 1968, so very much the right age to be completely transfixed by it. The voice of the Mysterons was frightening & I would make the light circles with my watch.
A […]

Thank you. Downloaded that minimoog one. Great fun!

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Thursday was the ideal day for TOTP, as the following day at school, it would be the main topic of conversation. “Did you see…?” “Yes they were great. I’m going to BUY IT with my pocket money tomorro […]

I like Rick Beato. His “Why this song sounds great” series are particularly good – he’s managed to get the original master tracks in a lot of cases – and dissects the song & explains what makes them tick. […]

I really enjoyed Monday’s episode, but I’m not sure what someone unfamiliar with their earlier work would have made of it.

While Neil Sedaka credits Elton John with resurrecting his career, it was really the two albums he recorded at Strawberry Studios that showed he could update his sound – and convinced 10cc that they could be […]

Having a licence fee means that they have to try to provide something for everybody…as they have done for many years.

Maybe if Creation had released this version as a single, Superstar would have been…successful.

Fortunately the EG & Alice album is on the fade2grey site. The site appears to be dormant, but as they’ve used megaNZ, a lot of the links are still alive.

3. Isn’t that Ted Carroll who founded Chiswick records

I don’t know. I’ll have to look it…Doh!!

I’m more concerned with “Digital Offloading” – that you don’t bother committing so much to memory, because you can always look it up.
No one has that mental list of phone numbers, because you just click on the […]

“Feeding Caviar to Pigs” isn’t that a Phil Cool reference?

Thanks Steve! I opted for EBay & music magpie had both of them as a “buy one get 50% off a second” so less than £2.50 for the pair.

Dollar were produced by Trevor Horn for their third album & the big hits. The musicians were his usual cronies & the songs co-written with Bruce Woolley. They leapt out of the radio, with many of the production […]

I’ve found a kindle to be great for novels & signed up for a daily newsletter from kind of book
(https://uk.kindofbook.com) This gives me a (virtual) stack load of thrillers to work my way through.
I’ve also got […]

The contract to produce Later was put out to Competitive Tender, but retained by the BBC.
It’s now back in London rather than Kent & they’ve gone for a much lighter & open set – it looks like they’re perfo […]