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The History of Pop Music – 1981

4th July 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 1050 Comments

Featured song: Squeeze – Labelled With Love This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]

Always Worth Saying’s Glasto Review

4th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 2365 Comments

Glasto 27th-29th June 2025 Present: Charli xcx Bob Vylan Neil Young Venue: Glastonbury What a struggle it was, but on your behalf this humble reviewer — devastated by the absence of Question Time during the [more…]

Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes

27th June 2025 Going Postal 2321 Comments

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more…]

The History of Pop Music – 1980

20th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2783 Comments

Featured song: Blondie – Call me This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]

Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off – Paraskevidekatriaphobia

13th June 2025 Going Postal 2793 Comments

Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends. Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. [more…]

The History of Pop Music – 1979

6th June 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2229 Comments

Featured song: Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall – Live This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]