Allen Dace

Aha! That’s why BBC4 have scheduled it tonight.

Now I would have made that mistake so I’m qualified to be a journalist apparently.

Isn’t it good? Swedish wood.

You will be visited by three Spearritts.

Still not quite there …

All you need is tea.
Tea is all you need.

Those yellow diamonds were white at the start of the series.

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It’s nothing to get hung up about.
You’re doing good spreading happy Beatleyness.

It’s barely perceptible unless you’re looking for it (and not that bad even then). All that holding the cover over your face and ducking out of frame helps.

My tiny piece of Yellow Submarine - an original animation cel of Toulouse Lautrec going through a white door from 18 minutes and 50 seconds into the film.

For what it’s worth the V&A collection entry for this album sleeve lists Robert Freeman as both photographer and designer. This may or may not be an assumption based on the generally known facts but a starting point because it might be as simple as that.

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I’ll certainly watch it. Has a lot of potential to shine a light on a very specific period. But in general I’m starting to feel that everything about everything is speculated to death. I’d rather react to something when we have it.

Isn’t it good?

Camp Kenny every time!

Presumably the Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine song?

On 27 December as part of a Prunella Scales tribute night they have A Question of Attribution at 21:45. Lloyd’s final production, screened posthumously. I remember when it won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama its director John Schlesinger was joined on stage by Lloyd‘s widow to accept their awards.

You can’t beat a bit of Sort Out!

Rubbernecking TV.

Sandra Caron (1936-2025), who has died aged 89.

The sister of singer Alma Cogan, close friend of The Beatles, she was part of their social circle. She’s possibly best known for appearing in Carry On Camping and her regular roles as first Mumsie then Auntie Sabrina in The Crystal Maze.

What’s more he played it again today!

All in white she’s giving me a Marty Hopkirk vibe.

Bob Harris played it on his Radio 2 show Sounds of the 70s a few months back and said he loved it and thought it was the best song by George.

My ageing grey cells had forgotten that this play featured the great Richard Vernon whose double whammy of spending 1964 on screen with James Bond and The Beatles wins him immortality.

This has made my day!

Saw The Beatles Anthology with a glimpse of Derek Royle as Jolly Jimmy in Magical Mystery Tour. I saw him in this 1988 West End production and I vividly recall that after I then rushed off to Waterloo to catch a train to see Royle already ahead of me on the escalator! He died just over a year later.

… which would have been at least number 8 if it wasn’t also part of number 29 …

Number 9, number 9, number 9 …

Well this is the never ending story.

Now that’s something that can be convincingly argued.

Above us, only tea.

The kind of thing that money just can’t buy. ;)