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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Nothing beats the stately homos of England

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I love a diary. I'm just reading the second volume of James Lees-Milne's . I'm not greatly bothered about the professional w...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Listen to Johnnie Walker's Long Players tonight at ten

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Over the last year I've recorded a bunch of programmes in the above series for Radio Two in which Johnnie and I enthuse over old favouri...
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Pop annuals and the ghosts of Christmas Past

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I came upon these two while sorting through some old books. The Radio Luxembourg Book of Record Stars must come from 1963 because the Beat...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Why do rock fans pretend they've *always* been into things?

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I watched "Last Orders" , the BBC 4 doc about Chas and Dave. It must be funny being them. They've played the same music for ...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Is this one of the futures of magazine publishing?

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Yesterday I took part in a debate about digital magazines at the London College Of Communications . The last time I was there it was the Lon...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

We're putting on a gig

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In the last couple of years of The Word's life the Word In Your Ear gigs were one of the most popular things we did. These were generall...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Which sixties singers can still sing in their sixties?

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An opera professional said to me recently: "No operatic tenor would dream of performing one of their old songs in the same key that the...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

George McGovern and The History Man

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George McGovern died this weekend at ninety. Most of the people furiously tweeting about the Presidential election won't know who he wa...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Is there a better song about an inanimate object than A Thing Well Made?

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Don McGlashan wrote some great songs for the Mutton Birds but the best one is "A Thing Well Made". It's about a man who runs ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Why the drummer is the only unsackable member of the band

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A few years back a musician friend said something that changed the way I think about rock bands. Traditionally we tend to accept that leader...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

What would the Guardian - or anyone - gain from ditching ink and paper?

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The Telegraph was presumably flying a kite when it ran today's story about the Guardian's alleged "plans" to dump the pape...
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One of the best speeches I've ever heard

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Last night I found myself at the  Oldie British Artist Awards  in Mayfair. The competition's open to artists over the age of 60. When th...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Cocktails are a fundamentally bad idea

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I wish only the best for Gaby Scanlon, the 18-year-old who has had to have her stomach removed following a misadventure with a birthday cock...
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Saturday, October 06, 2012

Why are people so sure Mike Love is the bad guy in The Beach Boys?

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Mike Love issues a long statement to the Los Angeles Times about how he didn't "fire" Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys and w...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

50 years ago this month two great archetypes were born

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Was on Five Live just now talking about the 50th anniversary of the first Beatles single and the first Bond movie and why they both contin...
Monday, October 01, 2012

In the 21st century all groups will reform

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The latest rumour is that The Smiths will reform for Glastonbury next year. I don't know whether this is true. I doubt whether anyone do...
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I haven't been so cross with a Virgin product since Beefheart's "Bluejeans And Moonbeams"

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I don't have cable but I do have one of these directly outside my house. This one (left) in fact. It belongs to Virgin Media. The engi...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

David Sedaris doesn't apologise or explain - which is why I like him

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I'm beginning to like going to see people I know nothing about. A friend of ours booked some tickets to see David Sedaris at the Cadoga...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

We don't remember Frank Wilson but his records are written on our hearts

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This morning in a moment of serendipity I found this in a pile and put it on. I've always had a soft spot for the streak of hits The S...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

So, farewell, Aasmah Mir

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The departure of Aasmah Mir from BBC Five Live removes half of one of the BBC's great on-air partnerships. Peter Allen, her Driveti...
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