Today we shall mostly be remembering Terry Major-Ball, who died 13 March 2007. He was the brother of John Major and author of a classic autobiography.
"The sniggering classes will snigger at this book," he warns, but that's not @paulsaffer.bsky.social's style.
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"Saying you were English used to be the greatest claim a man could make. Now when people say it, it’s like there’s something to be ashamed about."
The last episode of Endeavour was broadcast three years ago today.
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Apropos the Bank of England, here's an old L&U post: "Up and down the nation the cry should go out: ‘A statue on every street corner!’"
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"Saying you were English used to be the greatest claim a man could make. Now when people say it, it’s like there’s something to be ashamed about."
The last episode of Endeavour was broadcast three years ago today.
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"To put it bluntly, television is a bit crap these days, isn’t it?"
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on the glory years of factual TV.
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"In the Labour Party we spend all our time talking about getting rid of the leader and never do it."
Harold Wilson was born 110 years ago today.
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"In the Labour Party we spend all our time talking about getting rid of the leader and never do it."
Harold Wilson was born 110 years ago today.
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"To put it bluntly, television is a bit crap these days, isn’t it?"
@benfinlay74.bsky.social on the glory years of factual TV.
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"If this is supposed to be ‘new’ media, why all the old faces?"
Wishing a very happy birthday to Ed Gamble, who turns 40 today.
@finlay24.bsky.social wrote about him and his little show.
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"If this is supposed to be ‘new’ media, why all the old faces?"
Wishing a very happy birthday to Ed Gamble, who turns 40 today.
@finlay24.bsky.social wrote about him and his little show.
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Never Mind the Methadone, here are the best album titles of the 1990s...
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Today we shall be remembering trumpeter Ken Colyer, who died 9 March 1988.
George Melly called him a "holy fool", and he was one of the key figures in British revivalist jazz. He's in @benfinlay74.bsky.social's top 10 of trad.
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P.H.U.Q. - Now, that's what I call the 90s.
From Betty Boo to Cradle of Filth.
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Mourning Has Broken - and with it comes @alwynturner.bsky.social's selection of the ninety best/worst
British album titles of the 1990s.
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Today we shall be remembering trumpeter Kenny Ball, who died 7 March 2013. He's in @benfinlay74.bsky.social's top ten of trad jazz albums.
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Mourning Has Broken - and with it comes @alwynturner.bsky.social's selection of the ninety best/worst
British album titles of the 1990s.
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Don't you rock me, daddy-o! It's time for trad.
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Happy birthday to David Gilmour who turns 80 today.
Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' features in my top ten albums of 1975:
#musicsky #pinkfloyd #davidgilmour #article #topten @lionunicorn.bsky.social
"I ‘eard things like knives being sharpened…"
The great George Formby died 65 years ago today.
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"It sold only a few hundred copies at the time, but its legacy has been huge and long lasting..."
Nick Drake's second album 'Bryter Later' was released OTD in 1971. It features in my top ten Folk-Rock albums:
@lionunicorn.bsky.social #folk #musicsky
"Mark Gatiss said of Yates’s ‘thrilling tales of buried treasure and Alpine inns’ that they were ‘addictive’, and Michael Gove talked of ‘mainlining’ on the books."
Today we shall be remembering Dornford Yates, who died 5 March 1960.
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The editorial team at L&U are pleased as Punch for our @finlay24.bsky.social that his essay on the PARKINSON debate between Kenneth Williams & trade union legend Jimmy Reid has now been endorsed by two generations of Reids. (Thank you @joanireid.com.)
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It ain't half trad, dad... New out today, here's my guide to the best of British revivalist jazz, click on link to read:
#jazzsky #musicsky @lionunicorn.bsky.social
"Even now, it’s hard to imagine anything as thorough in its anti-establishment stance as 'The Death of William Posters.'"
Novelist Alan Sillitoe was born 98 years ago today.
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It ain't half trad, dad...
@benfinlay74.bsky.social takes you through the best of British Trad Jazz.
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"Deep Sea Skiving" and other 1980s album titles...
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In the Mood for Something Rude? It's @alwynturner.bsky.social's eighty favourite album titles from the 1980s.
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From Let It Bee to Filth Hounds of Hades, the eighty best/worst British album titles of the 1980s.
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"The election broadcast was Goldsmith alone, staring unblinking into the camera for a full 5-minute address, his intense demeanour and ominous message resembling a Bond villain explaining an apocalyptic plan..."
James Goldsmith was born 26 Feb 1933.
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"To accompany their panoply of arresting visual images, Tony Garnett and Roy Battersby wanted intelligent, experimental music. They sought advice from John Peel..."
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