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A History of Pop Music – 1965
Featured song: Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 3
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. Please be welcome [more…]
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Male Singers
My tastes in Music are pretty catholic but I cannot stand garage, punk, rap and the like. Born in 1940 my introduction to serious music was our Sunday afternoon treat, courtesy of the foster parents, [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 2
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. Please be welcome [more…]
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The Wankpuffin Song Two Tier Remix
More Wankpuffin videos here. © EJ 2024
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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Who? What? Meh… Needs More Cowbell – Part 1
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
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
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
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…]