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Kermit the Frogg
Even though it was from the same stable that had produced the successful Sesame Street, the Muppet Show failed to spark in the States, and it wasn’t until ATV’s Lew Grade picked it up that it became a...
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Post Punk Power Station Pop
Who the hell thought that this was a good idea?Battersea were a group formed specifically to highlight up-and-coming singer songwriter Charles Ridgway Coxill, a.k.a. Charlie Fawn – just one of the many...
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Hopeless Sings the Blues
Yes, I know it's December 1 - and yes, I'm fully aware that usually means the start of a month of calamitous Christmas crud, but bear with... there's plenty of time for that!I first became aware of the...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2017 Part One
Yes, it’s that time of year again, just three weeks to go until some fat bloke tries to break in to your house and creep around while your kids are asleep. And that means another selection of terrible...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2017 Part Two
And here we go again... four more awful Christmas-themed audio car crashes for you to endure.First up is/are both sides of the 1986 45 from Culturcide, Santa Claus was My Lover backed with Depressed...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2017 Part Three
So, this is Christmas…Just a few days to go until the big day; just enough time to squeeze in a few more Holiday Howlers for you.Noting says Christmas like atonal brats asking for something they cannot...
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Liquid Gold, Texas Tea
One of nine children, George Wilbur Husak was born in 1922 to a musical family that lived near the Gulf Coast in Southern Texas.George played guitar on the local party circuit, and occasionally for...
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Kinky Reggae Party
Vile.The multicultural poppets Kids International were, in fact, anything but international, having been put together by BBC TV producer Ernest Maxin for the 19882 series of the Les Dawson Show, as...
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The (Almost) Complete Ellen Marty
Updated and, dare I say, authoritative: the Ellen Marty Story! Some of you will already know the bare bones of this (especially if you've read my first book), but read on anyway... it's worth it! One...
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Pounds, shillings and nonsense
“Hey! Who’s that little old man?”Wilfred Brambell is an actor who will forvever be identified with two roles, that of the aged rag ‘n bone man Albert Steptoe and of Jimmy McCartney, Paul’s ‘very clean’...
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Zorba the Creep
Three years after his huge success in the international hit movie Zorba the Greek, Hollywood’s go-to swarthy he man (in the days before Telly Savalas became a megastar) Anthony Quinn recorded a...
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Father Francis Revisited
Back in November 2014 I featured a disc that, at the time, I raved about being quite possibly the worst thing I had ever heard in my life, a single by Father Francis the Singing Franciscan Monk....
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Carphone Cathouse
Naomi Campbell: superstar. One of the original super models (although I’m sure Janice Dickinson would argue that one), she’s an infamous diva, a former drug addict and, apparently, a bit of a bully...
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Trouble on the Old Plantation
I was blissfully unaware of the tracks in today’s selection, until WWR regular Nigel Richardson alerted me to one and, like the Alice down the rabbit hole, I became lost in an alternate universe.I was...
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The First (and Last) Noele
A couple of weeks a go, during a small social gathering at a friend’s house, conversation turned (as it so often does with me) to bad music. During that conversation I was reminded of a record that, I...
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Touched by the Hand of George
A rogue, a cad… immortalised on the silver screen in countless iconic roles, including the brilliant Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (for which he won an Academy Award), married to a Gabor, the voice...
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Statement Free
Time for some classic outsider madness!Norwegian legend Arvid Sletta has issued nine albums to date. The latest, Fast And Slow, is credited to Arvid Sletta and his regular collaborators Anders Sinnes...
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This could be a job for Mulder and Scully
Gillian Anderson: actor, activist, writer… pop star?Released in 1997, Extremis was Gillian’s only credible stab at the pop charts. The actor met musical collective Hal when Gillian narrated BBC...
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The Wild One
From acting and film royalty (grandfather was the great actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; his uncle was the film director Sir Carol Reed), Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was...
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Alice in Blunderland
Now, I loved the Stranglers, although I’ll admit I’ve no time for their post-Hugh output. For me it was all over once he left. The first post-Hugh album, In The Night, is just horrific (‘It’s in your...
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