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My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan

I learned recorder at primary school, learned to read music (very soon forgotten...) and actually got reasonably good at it, even wrote a few little tunes of my own 🙂 Moved to grammar school in 1977, music teacher in the first year was old enough to have been around when Mozart and co were writing and was more concerned with making sure we listed all the parts in Peter And The Wolf in two columns in our exercise books instead of in a line etc, taught us nothing useful; second year we had a much younger teacher who would explain things to us using "examples" like Gordon Is A Moron* and Friggin' In The Rigging...! Also recall him doing things like spending lunchtimes showing some of the older kids how to play Are 'Friends' Electric on whatever the organ-type thing in the music room was. Unfortunately I was far more academic than artistic and didn't carry on with it after the second year. *yes I know it isn't actually called that!

not sure when he would have moved but I grew up round the corner from where Steve Winwood used to live

Caught the original lineup several times, am on the Earth Inferno bits/b-sides from Wolves and the (apparently McCoy-approved) bootleg from Brum a few weeks after... last saw them at a festival at the NEC in 2009, with Prodigy guitarist etc.. OK they could play the stuff but no real feeling. Did see a couple of things never before witnessed though: a *five* person high flower-tower and... McCoy smiled (for a second)!

Much as I have loved their music for decades I can never take these two videos seriously...!

Working from home it's been several hours of Planet Rock every day, and a bit of Classic FM every time P*** F**** begin to pollute the air... having moved house (well flat) recently I am now close to having somewhere I can get my 20-year-old Alba stereo set up and start rediscovering the joys of vinyl

memory admittedly not what it was was but I'm sure I recall an interview (either written or radio) where he said it was about the M3 🙂

How can an old man with hellfires raging in his eyes fix somebody with a freezing glance?

The violin and piano bits in "Vienna" and the synth solo in OMD's "Messages" always been favourites of mine

Love that tune...first heard it in a TV advert way back and it took me years to find out what it was!

Roger Waters is the reason my radio goes onto Classic FM a couple of times a day

Possibly my favourite female vocalist of all time Julianne Regan of All About Eve started as bassist with Gene Loves Jezebel (who I always think are the goth band from up the road in Cannock but they aren't ...)

Just had a look out of curiosity (and 'cos these things are my job) and Dyson have had the name registered for 20 years...

Gone from processing life insurance policies to selling gas fires to answering directory enquiries and will shortly celebrate 24 years as a patent and trade mark administrator. January 2021 will be...interesting...

If it has to be strictly from teen years, in date order I'd say "I don't like Mondays", "Vienna", "She Sells Sanctuary"

Rush are one of a small handful of bands I regret never getting round to seeing live... RIP Neil sleep well

Without a doubt Peter Hook. But the more I thought about it I realised the reason I love such albums as "Dreamtime" , "The Nephilim", "First And Last And Always" is... because of the bass playing...

Find a live version with Blixa Bargeld doing Kylie's part lol...

Must admit to not yet having heard Ghosteen but it's next on my list...the guy is as you say on a different plane to mere mortals- having been fortunate enough to catch him and the Seeds live twice he knows how to bring his words to life on stage in a way not everyone can

After starting with a generic Amazon beginner kit treated myself to an Ibanez GSR180 a couple of weeks ago ... Not had much chance to do more than try and tune it so far but already feels so much better

Quite fortuitously caught Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on TV last night...if ever any artist was all about lyrics it must be him given the minimalism of a lot of the music, especially on stage...and boy has he written some beauty over the years

Transmission by Joy Division, Spiritwalker by The Cult spring to my total beginner mind

In The Meadow - All About Eve Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army Celebrate - Fields Of The Nephilim

Born To Be Wild (any version) ...lifelong rock fan but have hated that from the very first time I heard it! Red Red Wine, UB40... intensely annoying whine that unfortunately was just the sign of things to come Saturday Night, Whigfield...the most braindead piece of moronic garbage that has ever assaulted my eardrums (Dis)honourable mentions for Imagine, Ride On Time, and 99% of anything that made the top 10 this century...☺)

Could probably pick a different 10 every day but these would always be in there: Dreamtime - The Cult Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol Replicas - Tubeway Army Stained Class - Judas Priest All About Eve self titled debut