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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 1

4th October 2024 Going Postal 0

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…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1964

27th September 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94J1-XdJS1A Featured song: Roy Orbison – It’s Over  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 [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 2

20th September 2024 Going Postal 0

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. Tonight, dear reader, Ivory Cutlery (currently numb of buttock, sore [more…]

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Postcard From Birmingham, Part Four

14th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Earlier this year, as my wife and I passed Birmingham’s Town Hall during our day trip from the North, we hummed Mendelssohn’s Elijah which debuted in the city’s triennial music festival of 1846. At that [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1963

13th September 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: The Beatles – Please, Please 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 [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – A Game For All The Family

6th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday proudly delivers yet another light-loafered, groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Tonight’s missive, I’m sure you be relieved [more…]

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Female Singers

1st September 2024 Going Postal 0

What prompted this note was the mention by John Craven of the Czech coloratura opera singer Patricia Janeckova whom I had only stumbled across a few days ago. I was deeply affected as I listened [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1962

30th August 2024 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Chubby Checker – Let’s Twist Again  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 [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Rise Of The Wrinklies

23rd August 2024 Going Postal 0

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 furious mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. [more…]

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