That was painful - at least Joe Biden long since stopped whacking himself with that tea-tray when he does ’Mule Train’.

It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!

1 months ago

Stuart Derrick

He doesn’t say much does he? 😂

Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?

2 months ago

Stuart Derrick

I love Suzi’s accent. She could be Bowie’s sister 😁

Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair

2 months ago

Stuart Derrick

My mates’ band played the White Horse in High Wycombe. It was indeed quite grim and barely half full that night with a bunch of friends from Leighton Buzzard. Happy days?

Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?

2 months ago

fannyblancmange

Really excellent - look forward to reading the book. Rock’n’roll will never die, and neither will some of the Teds up the road from me.

Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys

2 months ago

fannyblancmange

That should’ve been great but was ruined by the painful inarticulacy and lack of insight of Kevin the Scouser, 65 going on 22 and probably still got that Fringe.

Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair by Will Sergeant

6 months ago

Stuart Derrick

On vinyl, but no record player, my wife recalls an excited young man inviting himself to her room during the first week of university and sitting for hours nodding along to the LPs he had brought along to play on her turntable. He barely said a word. I didn’t have a CD player when I first started the tentative switch from vinyl. I used to get my mate John to put them on a C60 for me. The interesting bit was seeing what he would add to the end to fill up the leftover tape.

Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records

7 months ago

chris

Two tired old farts being tired old farts. I got to about 20 mins before knocking it on the head

The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos

8 months ago

maltjerry

The sections on Simon and Garfunkel and The Band 👌

Robbie Robertson, Billy Connolly, Bridge Over Troubled Water and the “fake history” of Punk

8 months ago

Stuart Derrick

Don’t know about No Woman No Cry being influenced by Let it Be but Between the Wars by Billy Bragg using a very similar descending scale at one point. I remember being at one of Bragg’s gigs where he explained one songwriting technique he used was to play someone’s song and devise his own melody over the top. Is that plagiarism? I don’t know.

Groups that look like a check-out line at B&Q? We have a winner!

1 years ago