Musings on the byways of popular culture
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This is Always on my Mind…no, not that one. This is the other Always on my Mind by Tiki Tane.
I’d like to see if you can think of other examples. Didn’t Saxon have a song called Ghost Town? Didn’t The Rubettes have a jaunty instrumental called Atrocity Exhibition?
Now I quite like the Tiki Tane song… but perhaps we can build a Spotify playlist of mostly disappointing imposters. It’s just what we need to cheer us up.
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I am astonished when witnessing people travelling through life not picking up on what I consider to be basic knowledge. The man from Surrey in 1993 who was about 20 years older than me, saying that he had “absolutely no idea” that England had won the World Cup in 1966. He’s more of a rugger fan, you see. Or the young girl who told me that she had seen “Mick Jagger and his band” at Glastonbury. I mean, honestly!
And yet…as my children get older I start to realise I have unforgivable, jaw-dropping blind spots of my own.
To whit the Avengers series of films. I think it involves Captain America and other comic book heroes. Yet I continue to associate the Avengers films with Steed, Emma Peel – and then the new version with Purdy and whoever Gareth Hunt’s character was. I suspect that has nothing to do with it (but I’m not sure…).
I have totally lost track of Batman films – I’d say around the time of Seal singing Kiss to a Rose. The one with all the Prince songs is seen by today’s kids as like Steamboat Willie was to us. And there’s been just the » Continue Reading.
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I think Michelle Obama may have sealed it for Hillary Clinton here. That, and Bernie Sanders unequivocal and dignified endorsement. Her speech was sincere, thoughtful, articulate and delivered in a natural way. If the Obamas follow the Clintion path, there is every chance we will see her living at the White House again.
It seems to have gone down a storm in the States. But the true barometer is of course the several thousand leaders and thinkers and Richard Thompson fans, sometimes known collectively as The Massive. What is their verdict?
