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If you thought Tom Jones and Janis Joplin was a strange pairing check this one out, it's like watching some bizarro alternate universe where David Bowie is Tony Orlando. You might find your pleasure waning after a while though – it's long – so I suggest you switch to this.

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Posting is going to be a little thin over the next few weeks as I'm focusing on something else at the moment which is taking all my rather limited spare time and brain power. In addition, Blogger are making some technical changes which might mean me moving this blog somewhere else soon so I have to look into that.I'll still put up the odd video and photo but don't expect much in the way of

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I remember well how Michael Foot was vilified when he was leader of the Labour Party, how the smug, sneering Thatcherites mocked his shabby Worzel Gummidge appearance, his donkey jacket, how such a brilliant intellect wasn't cut out for the modern age of television politics with it's shallow soundbites and telegenic haircuts masquerading as human beings. But look around you today and the man

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My daughter doesn't want to pick out any records for me at the moment, I think she's rumbled that I'm just exploiting her for cute pictures on my blog and refuses to play ball, so I've hired these two to choose the music in future.And what do you know, something else good that Phil Collins was involved in.Download: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) - Genesis (mp3)

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The old blog needed this after Phil Collins.

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"Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and

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This got to number one 20 years ago.Download: Killer (12" version) - Adamski (mp3)Well all know that Seal went on to fame and fortune and supermodels after singing on this, but what happened to Adamski?

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The caption for this picture says "House party — Chelsea, London UK circa 1952" but other than that I have no idea what is going on here. Just your typical arty Chelsea bohemians I guess, from the days when "bohemians" could afford to live in Chelsea.I went to some pretty wild parties when I was at art college but I think I always managed to keep my trousers on. Well, apart from that one time...

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After a tough couple of weeks at work this is the sort of thing I like to wind down with, a record of almost heart-stopping loveliness.Download: Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading (mp3)

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I once saw Errol Brown coming out of the Gents in a nightclub and I think I was so surprised by how small he was I forgot to get down on my knees and give praise to him for incredible records like this.

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Too busy at work to do anything here at the moment, talk amongst yourselves for while.And enjoy this fine tune of course.Download: Wat About Di Workin' Claas - Linton Kwesi Johnson (mp3)

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I'm getting a major "leave me alone you dirty old man" vibe from those dollies that Jimmy Saville is trying to chat up. Especially the last one, she looks like he's making her skin crawl.

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A little tribute to J.D. Salinger. For more on the Catcher In The Rye-indie pop nexus read this."I'm always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.""You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking,

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Speaking of scary things, this Public Information Film looks like it was made by Alfred Hitchcock.

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It was 7:15 in the evening on Friday the 3rd of December, 1982. I know because I still have the ticket.I was at one the The Jam's farewell shows at Wembley Arena and even though I was only 20 myself at the time I felt like one of the oldest people there as the hall seemed to be full of 14-year-old boys wearing cheap Parkas that looked like their Mum had bought them in Millets. It was like being

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15 years from now she is going to be so glad that I took this picture, her street cred with her friends will go up by about a gazillion points. That is, if "the kids" give a shit about The Clash by then or even know who they are, though I'm sure there will be yet another punk revival at some point in the future.Download: Tommy Gun - The Clash (mp3)

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Childhood can be a bloody scary time of life and it doesn't take much to frighten the shit out of a kid. I'm sure I'm not the only one who woke up in the middle of the night and for one terrifying moment thought that a coat hanging on their bedroom door was a man standing in the room, not to mention all the creaks and squeaks a house can make at night that made you lie awake in bed convinced that

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RIP Teddy. This record never fails to blow me away.

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This old playground rhyme popped into my head the other day for some reasonHi Ho, Hi HoIt's off to school we goWith a bucket and spadeAnd a hand grenadeHi Ho, Hi HoWe used to sing that at my Primary School, along with this ditty Build a bonfire, build a bonfirePut the teachers up on the topPut Greenie* in the middleAnd burn the bloody lotNasty little buggers weren't we? Every school had songs

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Download: The Punk and The Godfather - The Who (mp3)If they took this picture now Paul Weller would be the old man, but who would be the young turk standing next to him?

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Whether you're in America or the UK right now the chances are it's more than a bit brass monkeys and there's snow everywhere, so this might warm your cockles. There's also the astonishing sideburns of Ray Dorset to enjoy.

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Much as I like to big up my mother's love of Frank Sinatra as an example of her good taste in music she did have a few skeletons in her closet — or rather in the sideboard where she kept her records. For a few years she really had a thing for Rod Stewart, and unfortunately I don't mean the classic, Faces-era Rod either, she loved – I think even preferred — late 1970s, Britt Ekland-shagging,

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I proposed to my wife at midnight on New Year's Eve, 1999 in New York City which I think was a suitably memorable and positive way the mark the start of a new decade* and millennium. We were having a party at the apartment of a friend of mine but couldn't see the Times Square fireworks from the roof of his building as we'd planned because it had been closed by the police, as had every other

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