Martin Fitzgerald

“A City Disgraced.”

Time Magazine’s verdict on Dallas in November 1963 - published three weeks BEFORE the assassination

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A theory that McCartney himself, unfortunately, seems keen to pursue

Coming to the end of a terrific weekend in Belfast. Never been before would deffo come again

Huey P. Newton listening to Dylan at his home in Berkeley, 1970.

📷 Stephen Shames

A lovely Doddy story from Mr. Thomson.

That’s one way of breaking them down

I learned everything I know about Kim Kardashian by mistake, and under duress.

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A photo of JFK. Next to him, his daughter wears a frankly terrifying witch’s outfit

As you all start preparing your Halloween costumes, remember Caroline Kennedy’s witch outfit is the benchmark you should be aiming for

I met Prince Andrew in 2018 or 2019. Like most people, their life has gone downhill ever since.

There’s a few words on AJ Weberman for the Dylan fans

It’s only just occurred to me, thanks to @dylanrevisited.bsky.social, that I’ve finished writing my book in time for the release of another bootleg series. Perfect timing

Alex James’ Britpop Classical is, without doubt, the scariest thing I’ve read this spooky season.

London's thieves are burying phones in flowerbeds The police don't take much interest in returning the stolen devices when they're dug up — so London Centric decided to do it.

The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

Cover, inserts and vinyl record of The Fall’s Fall In A Hole live album owned by John Peel

Another John Peel estate auction came and went this week. One lot of note was his copy of Fall In A Hole, the legendary live album released on Flying Nun that fundamentally changed the label, both crippling it in the short term and helping to propel it to new ears around the world in the long term.

DEAD OF NIGHT with Anna Savory | Smersh Pod

DEAD OF NIGHT
with @annasavory.bsky.social
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The cover of a book called Pomp and Circumstance - with a man on horseback, on a roof, looking over London

I’ve seen this book being advertised and my first of many questions is, how did they get a horse onto a roof?

Huge news.

Ashorne Hill was the location for this year’s Dealey Plaza UK conference - their 30th anniversary

*Take ffs

Prunella Scales, Charles Laughton and Daphne Anderson in Hobson’s Choice

Prunella Scales in David Lean’s Hobson’s Choice - a fine film.

Unrelated trivia - the brass band at the start of Sheila Takes a Bow was sampled from this film.

I think mine was One Step Beyond

I thought you were my age? I would have had something from 79/80

Finished! 81,200 words, 21 chapters, one trip to Dallas and another to Leamington Spa. It will be out in Spring and, if you were wondering, the font on this title page is called Oswald.

Thanks Chris

Maybe we meet in the book, become the best of friends, and she tells me everything?

Thanks. I’ve pretty much avoided theories in this book and just told stories

Thanks! What’s CHAOS?

HA HA

And more importantly, they’re 81,200 very entertaining and interesting words