Steven C

I have not. Thanks!

As the first country in history to be the target of long range missile attack you'd think we'd be wary of inflicting this horror and violence on other countries but clearly no.

Honestly, Starmer is toast.

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

That’s interesting to hear. There was too little new information for the established fan which made me think it was aimed at the new or casual fan who didn’t know the story. But it missed that target too!

Built for Atmos.

I’d have much rather seen more of Linda and the domestic side of Paul’s life in the 70s.

I think a lot of the intent in MOTR is to consolidate that later view. To emphasise how important she was to Paul not as a musician but as a support.
I thought overall the documentary couldn’t really decide what it want to be.

Linda occupied a very odd position in Beatle fandom. Not as vilified as Yoko post-1970, but still the target of some vicious bullying. She was not seen as the lovely talented woman until after her death.

If I were being completely cynical I’d say that, at least in part, it is a response to the rehabilitation of Yoko in ‘Get Back.

The internet is a curious place.

I am leaving Facebook because it keeps showing me videos of former vice presidents dancing.

That's right, I'm being forced out by the Al Gore rhythms.

Good grief! And yet, bravo!

a 3d paper model of a Mari Lwyd

Happy St Davids Day Welsh kids!
(from the Welsh-est item I have in at heykidsrocknroll.etsy
com)

Dubai Evacuation - I think I saw them on the Pyramid Stage in ‘93.

A lot has been written and said over the years about how Decca failed to sign the Beatles in 1962, but was it as bad as that time The Beatles failed to sign David Bowie in 1968?

Destruction of the Furious Elephant at Exeter Change, by George Cruikshank – a contemporary print showing a row of soldiers and others firing rifles at a bloodied elephant which is breaking some of the bars of a stout wooden cage, but is still very much contained. A man standing closer carries a rifle with a bloodied bayonet, apparently from stabbing the animal

200 years ago today, an elephant died, and not in a dignified manner. The unfortunate ‘Chunee’ had been kept in an upstairs room on the Strand, and was killed because he finally got sick of his confinement and mistreatment and started kicking the shit out of the place 🧵

Happy Birthday!

The latest audiobook listen-I’m a big fan of Peter Doggett as a writer-his You Never Give Me Your Money is arguably the best book I’ve read about The Beatles-& this one is truly excellent-very balanced & revealing. Plus it does what all good music books do-it sends you back to those peerless records

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled viruses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the bacteria, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

You are doing missionary work - bringing music to Liverpool for the first time. God bless your endeavours!

model bookshop

The Fall Curious Orange diorama

Fillmore west model

cbgbs model

Some little things from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

Good grief. And the rest is as pretentious and nauseating as you’d expect from the headline.

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

I’ve done some events with him and he is annoyingly talented!

The great and the good, and me, at the U.K. launch of Piers Hemmingsen’s second volume of ‘The #Beatles In Canada’.
I genuinely cannot recommend these two volumes highly enough.

'The Beatles In Canada - The Evolution 1964-1970' (Audio Companion Disc For The Book) [2025] is my disc of the day.
Here's a recent interview with the author Piers Hemmingsen:
youtu.be/JrRjpBx-Vxw?...
#thebeatles

You know what? Let’s not fact check the idiots who think Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader killed today, was the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Let them believe he was 124 years old. In fact, persuade them he was kept alive as a head in a jar.