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Delighted to pick up these two the other day, both firsts (although Spanner is a 2nd reprint). Both in fine condition. #johnlennon

I love this review of Till the Band Comes In, Scott Walker’s fifth solo album, November 1970. “A kept cowboy…” 😄

Jimmy Webb’s Words And Music album cover

NEW post: “In the late 60s Jimmy Webb virtually defined American popular songwriting with hits such as MacArthur Park, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Galveston, Wichita Lineman…”

@covers.bsky.social selects 10 best songs sung by #JimmyWebb

www.toppermost.co.uk/webb-jimmy/

Who remembers the NME Book of Modern Music?

www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/New-Music...

PF Sloan is just sublime! Thank you for reminding me!

And So: On by Jimmy Webb album cover

NEW post: “If you appreciate folk, country, Americana, piano ballads, or just great story telling, there is much to discover on Jimmy Webb’s dozen or so albums.”

@covers.bsky.social selects 10 best songs sung by #JimmyWebb

www.toppermost.co.uk/webb-jimmy/

Albums I’ll never hear #1

#weekendsingles #vinyl
Back from a couple of fairs with some nice US promos and a Roxy collection, bought mostly for the B-sides.

Just used old newspapers online to track down a half-remembered Au Pairs gig I went to (turned out to be a RAR @ Poplar Town Hall, Nov 80). Shame it’s just Lesley now - not much of a reunion, really.

I remembered I saw the Au Pairs in the very early 80s at a benefit gig in a civic hall in E. London, so set about finding out exactly where and when. Trawling through online music papers, I finally tracked it down. It was Poplar, 8/11/80 - exactly 45 years ago! Brilliant gig, as I recall.

Some Laura Nyro adverts for #weekendsingles. Just need the records themselves 😅

Ed Sullivan, a very young Scott Walker, and Liberace, 1950s.

Stewart Copeland hits out at punk, February 1977.

Scans of the legendary rock mag ZIGZAG now online. (I don’t expect many likes - you’d have to be my age or older to remember it 😁)

www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Zigzag.htm

Will do. Just bought all their 45s 1972-75 for a tenner at the record fair 😀

Richard and Linda Thompson’s 1975 tour started 50 years ago this week. Captured on this terrific CD. Anyone see them live? I caught them once, on their 1978 tour.

I think it's about six months since I last saw this mentioned on here. Does anyone have any information as to when it may be available to watch in the UK? 🙏

Lost Angel - The Genius of Judee Sill

The Pantone colours TfL use for their transport maps. Just so you know. #London
@jagohazzard.bsky.social

YouTube video by Pannu Huone Scott Walker - Rosary (Live 1995 on Jools Holland)

Scott Walker, “Rosary” live on Later, 1995. Pretty much the only live performance he gave after the 70s I think?

youtu.be/jj1W3WVxoP4?...

#np Sinatra’s worst selling LP, apparently. But my favourite of his. Incongruously penned by Bob “Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine” Gaudio and Jake “Dazed & Confused” Holmes. Rather charming dedication on the sleeve. Was only 99p in the chazza though and vinyl plays perfectly 😃

By Roy Wood. It’s on his album Boulders.

The 1977 cult ghost flick Full Circle or the Haunting of Julia starring Mia Farrow just had a rare screening at #Picturehouse cinemas. The OST by Colin Towns is a brilliant, unsettling mix of piano and synth.
@stuartmaconie.bsky.social one for the Xmas Freakzone?

Elvis Costello’s first ever TV interview, September 1977. Full show including two songs. Audio only soundcloud.com/hidingunderc...

Elvis Costello competition, NME 1979. Too late to enter? I know all the answers 😆

These letters in NME from March 1977 are a reminder of how little known Nick Drake’s name was less than three years after his death. When did this change?

These letters in NME from March 1977 are a reminder of how little known Nick Drake’s name was less than three years after his death. When did this change?

Virtually no one was interested in him in 1977 and the references would have been completely obscure to most NME readers - this was before Nite Flight even. I bought that issue and remember the Genesis feature but I doubt I would have bothered reading the Scott interview.

@delonsblues.bsky.social short NME interview with Scott Walker from early 1977 on p.12 here you might like? www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/New-Music...

21st century Cohen is a rich and wonderful thing