Jim offers us a simple choice for Song Lyric Sunday this week: yes or no. The genius that is Stevie Wonder wrote a song in which almost every line begins with the word ‘No’. That should do it. Just this last week, the hosts of the otherwise excellent quiz programme ‘Pointless’ ventured that this is…
So, it’s Fathers’ Day this weekend. Bit of a Hallmark Holiday if you ask me (bah, humbug) but celebrating fatherhood works both ways. A cover version of this song was at the top of the UK charts when our lovely daughter was born, which seemed entirely appropriate. And still does. Isn’t she lovely Isn’t she…
For ‘W’ it could only be The Who. Having, notoriously, slept right through their performance at the Isle of Wight in 1970, I finally got to see them at the opening night of the Rainbow Theatre in November 1971. They tumbled onto the stage at the end of a line of high-kicking chorus girls, Moon…
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