Son House sings John the Revelator - Just one man and the greatest human instrument - the human voice.

Christmas Day 1977 - the pistols played a famous last ever UK gig in Huddersfield. The band came to town to play a gig at Ivanhoes in Manchester Road, after earlier hosting a party for children of firemen on strike.

Heard this band in the Seven Stars pub in Bristol last night. Popped into the pub for a couple of pints after yesterday's Women's League Cup Final.

Shone relatively briefly in the mid-50s until he shot himself in the head backstage during a break. Some alleged he was playing russian roulette, others say he was drunk, waving his gun around, claimed it wasn't loaded, put it to his head to prove it. Daft lad.

Big Country with ‘In a Big Country’. ‘The Tube’ on 17th Feb 1984.

Great song by a great band (in my humble opinion).

I always thought the Isley Brothers were responsible for the first iteration of Twist and Shout. Not so. Phil Spector produced The Top Notes in 1961. It failed. Co-writer Bert Burns - a now largely forgotten 60s legend - reworked it later for the Isleys. Though the Beatles' version reigns supreme, methinks.

1 hour ago, Boyne said:

Now that was a marriage. Fraught. Not sure I'd've taken to Paul Simon. Legend has it that, in a fit of pique, he once cut a tape of Art's work in the studio into pieces, took the pieces around to Art's place and left them on his door step.

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word salad at its best.

14 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Bliss. Remember singing along to it on the school bus. The teachers were, um, bemused.