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20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Four – Manfred Mann

4th March 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

4th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 3rd March 2022 The Panel: Penny Mordaunt (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Konstantin Kisin (Commentator) Bridget Kendall (Journalist) Kirsten Oswald (SNP) Gary Neville (Pundit) Venue: Norwich What can be done about Ukraine, short of [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Four

26th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

With there being only 11 years between them both my grandfather, Elihu, and his nephew, John Jr, joined up for the Second War. Last time we looked at my grandfather’s service in the RAOC and [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Three – The Doobie Brothers

25th February 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Three – The Doobie Brothers If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

25th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 24th February 2022 The Panel: Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) James Cleverley (Conservative) David Lammy (Labour) Katherine Birbalsingh (Educator) Radek Sikorski (Polish MEP) Timothy Gorton-Ash (Historian) Anne McElvoy (The Economist) Venue: Harrow Puffins with instant [more…]

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Queen of the Hebrides – Personal Recollections

24th February 2022 Going Postal 0

17.30 Saturday 31st October 2015 For the second day running, we sit on the hard plastic chairs at Glenegedale Airport, staring despondently out of the windows into the grey Islay gloom, with only the occasional [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Three

19th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

The above photograph appears in our family Nostalgia Album captioned “Mauretania Southampton 1939”. Although every Big Boy’s Big Book of Big Ships says something different, the photograph, languishing in the Worth-Saying family album for 83 [more…]

20th Century

My Legends of Pop Music – Part Thirty-Two – The Small Faces

18th February 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

If get this right, there will be many cover versions by future bands. I shall try and link live versions if they exist from the tellybox or a film, the sound quality may not be [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

18th February 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 17th February 2022 The Panel: Jake Berry (Conservative) Andy Burnham (Labour Mayor of Manchester) Juergen Maier (Industrialist) Inaya Folarin-Iman (Journalist) Frances O’Grady (TUC) Venue: Leeds In a direct, Yorkshire sort of way, the [more…]

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