The Small Faces: My Generation
Some brilliant footage of Marriott and Co in the Sixties.
Author: Alan Ashworth
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Nic Jones: Miles Weatherhill
Driving through Todmorden on the way to Gordon Rigg’s garden centre I am always reminded of this song and the tragic story it represents. Here it is: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/crime-broadsides/catalog/46-990069096830203941 At the … Continue readingNic Jones: Miles Weatherhill
Lowe Life Part 3
CRIKEY! It’s getting on for a year since we left the Nick Lowe story with him at a loose end, his band Little Village having broken up at the end of 1992. … Continue readingLowe Life Part 3
Cowboy Junkies: Bea’s Song
The 1996 album Lay It Down, from which this is taken, is the Junkies at their best.
Drive By Truckers: When Walter Went Crazy
Live version of the most excellent song from the 2014 album English Oceans.
Little Feat: New Delhi Freight Train
From the 1977 album Time Loves a Hero, a cover of the great Terry Allen song. Here’s Allen himself, recording it two years later on the album Lubbock (on everything). … Continue readingLittle Feat: New Delhi Freight Train
The Jam: That’s Entertainment
Here’s a song which BBC Radio 2 announced was the 43rd best ever written. To illustrate the sheer fatuousness of this, No 1 was A Whiter Shade of Pale, 2 … Continue readingThe Jam: That’s Entertainment
Argent: Hold Your Head Up
We have a tortoise which looked to be losing the battle for life but M refused to give up on her because, she said, she was holding her head up … Continue readingArgent: Hold Your Head Up
Joe Jackson: Different for Girls
Jackson’s other great single from the end of the Seventies.
Shteve McLaren’sh own goalsh
Remember when an England manager was more concerned with keeping his comb-over dry than seeing his side beat Croatia? No wonder they called him the wally with the brolly. He … Continue readingShteve McLaren’sh own goalsh