MUSIC

Aping around during this recent lockdown wasn’t on my list of boxes to tick. As you can guess there were things that demanded attention but after flicking the duster around and re-arranging the book shelves, […]

The public’s taste in music this month in 1961 was varied with home grown artists competing against American interlopers who had no intention of disappearing without a fight.  The Brits held their own and for […]

The sun’s shining and, like so many others,  I’m in my fifth week of lockdown. While we’re all living through such unprecedented and tragic times, I thought I’m getting out of this decade for awhile […]

 “In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight”…that’s enough of that, as we take a leap across the decades from the fifties last month into the eighties now, where I have to admit, […]

Hold on to your hats as we’re whooshing our way back through the decades to land in the fifties, and with the wind howling up a storm outside my office window, the journey didn’t take […]

Welcome to my first blog of the new decade! Although Christmas seems a long way off now, I do hope you had the best time and that your celebrations were carried over to New Year’s […]

With Phil Spector’s “A Christmas Gift For You” playing softly in the background, and a box of tissues and a glass of lemsip to hand, I’m a sorrowful sight in the run up to the […]

Somehow I always seem to gravitate towards the decade I loved the best.  Certainly it’s not true what some folks say that if you remember it you couldn’t have been there.  I was, and, although […]

After extolling the virtues of the “Adventure Boyz” movie last time, which now appears to be earmarked for general release, I’m planning a return-to-normal format this month.  Hah, we’ll see, as we take a peek […]

No hanging on to your seat belts this time around because I’m taking a little detour from the past to the present day to tell you about an amazing event that happened in Hailsham, East […]