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The History Of Christmas Number Ones 1952 – 1999, Part One: 1952 – 1975

29th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Holy mince pies and brandy butter Batman! Is it bauble and tinsel time again already? It seems like we just got the last of the pine needle out of the carpet and here we go [more…]

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A (short) Postcard From “The Firkin Fox”

25th October 2019 Colin Cross 0

I have a good friend who lives in Essex, although we are very different people we’ve always got along well since we first met, we share a sense of humour that not everyone gets. We [more…]

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Friday Night at GP

18th October 2019 Going Postal 0

From time to time  it is perhaps appropriate that we should relax a little the bonds that tether us to the straight and narrow.  As we all know well, A fitting apologia for a bit of [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1995

11th October 2019 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Oasis – Some Might Say 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…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1994

4th October 2019 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Elton John – Circle of Life 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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Meet Markos Vamvakaris (“Mark Cotton”) – Patriarch of Rebetiko

29th August 2019 Going Postal 0

Some things are not quite what they seem: hardly an earth-shattering perception, but you have to start somewhere. I imagine that a fair number of GPers have spent a holiday in Greece. I dare say [more…]

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Bax of Delights

18th August 2019 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been quite a few occasions when one wished one was a fly on the wall to listen in on a conversation. The private discussion between Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King’s Musick, [more…]

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Postcard from Bloodstock 2018

26th July 2019 Katabasis 0

I know, I know – in two months you’ll be seeing another piece from me. ‘Postcard from Bloodstock 2019’. What can I say, this is one of those posts I had been meaning to finish [more…]

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Red Tape

21st July 2019 Going Postal 0

As some of you may remember my Mother died back at the end of March. She was nearly 100 so it was not really unexpected but when it did happen it was not helped by [more…]

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