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I don't think their UK sales were great but they had a certain cachet because of Felix Pappalardi's Cream connection.

I worked for a while at the Orb Mill in Waterhead which is on the boundary and I think the distance to Saddleworth was more like 5/16". But the bus from Royton seemed to take about five years.

Oldham is in Lancashire so it's clearly nowhere near Saddleworth.

The first time I saw Gillan was in February 1979 with Pete Barnacle on drums. Steve Byrd was still on guitar, but I think Bernie Torme had supported them at a gig a couple of weeks before and plans were afoot.

The sleeve of Forces Of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson sits on a record player

Couple hours to kill in Cheltenham today led me to a cracking used record shop, Vinyl Vault. This is a French copy of Forces Of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson. You can tell it's French because the UK sleeve didn't have the "Reggae” banner. #nowplaying #vinyl #reggae

According to www.setlist.fm/stats/concer..., Devo played two shows at Kent State on April 4th 1975.

Cyclops Records was a tiny place run by a grumpy Welshman who would throw you out for browsing too long or carrying a Virgin Records bag, but he also sold tickets to all the gigs that weren't at the Odeon. It's still legendary for a certain era of Brum dweller.

I saw them the day before in Manchester. Quite a show.

James Van Der Beek, star of Dawson’s Creek, dies aged 48 Actor who also starred in Varsity Blues and Rules of Attraction revealed in 2024 he had been diagnosed with cancer

I know very little about Dawson's Creek but I loved him in (as well as everything else about) Don't Trust The B---- In Apt 23.

19.45 FILM: BARGAIN HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Tense drama with David Dickinson as his antique enthusiast teams try to find a top secret Soviet era submarine at the local bric-a-brac stalls in Weston-super-Mare.

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The Modern Antiquarian is a nice score. We used to travel around with it in the car to find interesting places, but it stays safely at home these days. Happy birthday!

That's obviously where the confusion arose.

Shouldn't that be Rootes Hall, as in the large local carmaker later taken over by Chrysler?

YouTube video by Fabrício Gabriel The Channel Gary Moore – Live at Old Grey Whistle Test TV 1979 (4K Remastered)

Moore, Lynott, Gorham, Powell, Airey - fantasy league band, playing as live as you can get. Gary breaks a bottom E (!) string at the end of Back On The Streets and carries on to play Don't Believe A Word without it. Only available in lo-res parts until this recent remaster joined them back up.

Park amps and cabinets were made by Marshall. They'd signed an exclusive deal with Rose Morris for Marshall branded gear so Park is what they sold to everybody else.

The cover of the album Miles Of Aisles by Joni Mitchell sitting on top of a record player

Now playing, in honour of Joni winning a Grammy, is this 1974 live album

#nowplaying #vinyl #jonimitchell #tomtriplescalescott

Starfighters was Stevie Young's band, now rhythm guitarist in AC/DC.

September 1967 was the final month of UFO. John Hopkins had been jailed for 8 months in June and they'd lost the central London venue. It didn't make financial sense at the Roundhouse, so Joe Boyd moved on to one of his myriad other enterprises.

Followed the next day by Tomorrow (appropriately) featuring future Yes guitarist Steve Howe.

Hardrock in Manchester was a pretty big venue - it had been a bowling alley and was later a B&Q, but for a couple of years you could see Wings, Bowie, Led Zep and Bob Marley there. The building was only knocked down a couple of years ago.

"Did they ever do anything else?" :)

RIP Bob

And then the composer of I'm Too Sexy stole the riff from Third Stone From The Sun but Richard Fairbrass thought it was Coronation Street. :) The Hendrix Estate was not fooled though. Right Said Fred had to make a charitable donation to appease their copyright sins.

He might have thought TV was a drag, but he was apparently a fan of Coronation Street. You can kind of hear the theme tune in Third Stone From The Sun.

This is Twink, who also has one job to do a year and has been let off a day early this year. Back to the Yule box for Twink.

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Anyone Else Here

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The good news is we got a cheesemaking kit for Christmas. Today we mutated a litre of milk into a surprisingly small (but tasty) ball of mozzarella.

1978. 6: Band on the Wall, Manchester, 11 June 1978 Unreleased gig recording Rebellious Jukebx | Psycho Mafia | Mother/Sister | Like to Blow | Repetition 3# | Industrial Estate | Mess of My | Steppin Out | Brand New Cadillac | Frightened || Futurs +…

One obsessive article (unmagicrealism.wordpress.com/2024/10/08/1...) credits the photo to Jill Furmanowsky, who is still around.

Saturday is a given

YouTube video by ShowPaws Taking A Christmas Photo with 6 Whippets Wearing Reindeer Antlers

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#whippet #sighthound #dogsofbluesky

YouTube video by Muppet Songs Muppet Songs: Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear

One of the highlights of the original The Muppet Show album.