A brief FG lockdown concert

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What a voice and performance.

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I could never decide whether Mary Hopkin wore makeup. A memorable song though. Very Welsh.

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Dramatic stuff, this.

[Penny Alayne]

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[Penny Alayne]

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I managed to see Blue Horses twice in the late nineties and they were wonderfully energetic, they were standout concerts to remember. In Bristol we thought of them as a local group.

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and goodness knows how many times I saw Doreen Doreen, and they're definitively Bristol. The saxophone on the left is Vicki Burke and she's impressive.

They know how to fill any pub in town.

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That's Flash Harry. Where did I last see them play. Somewhere out toward Downend, big pub on a crossroad.

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This is the mesmerizing Chris Scott, often to be found at The Prom when it existed, often with Steve Payne, or even earlier at the Howlin' Wolf. And once at least in the back room of the Naval Volunteer.

I've got this track on a CD of his from the Hope Centre.

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Steve Payne too, singing, on the right.

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Good friends and brilliant musicians

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Good friends and brilliant musicians

And very impressive too.

Neither of us posted All Around My Hat, did you notice.

[Bryn Mawr]

Good friends and brilliant musicians

And very impressive too.

Neither of us posted All Around My Hat, did you notice.

No gaudetee either

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Some things just get better.

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Ha - there is a Santa after all.

Wham!’s Last Christmas has reached No 1 in the UK singles chart for the first time, 36 years after it was first released.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, it was originally held off the top spot in 1984 by Band Aid’s charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Last Christmas spent five weeks at No 2 that year, and was a Top 10 hit in 1985 too. With the advent of downloads and streaming meaning that any song could re-enter the charts, it reappeared in 2007, reaching No 14. It has reached the Top 40 nearly every year since, going Top 3 the last four years.

It sets a new record for time elapsed between a song being released and reaching No 1. This was previously held by Tony Christie with his song (Is This the Way to) Amarillo, which reached No 18 on first release in 1971, but reached No 1 over 33 years later in 2005 after it was rereleased with Peter Kay for Comic Relief.

Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley said he was “delighted, somewhat amazed and profoundly pleased” that the song had finally reached No 1 and paid tribute to his late bandmate and the song’s writer, George Michael. He said the chart placing was “a testament to its timeless appeal and charm”. He added: “It is a fitting tribute to George’s song-writing genius … he would have been immensely proud and utterly thrilled.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... r-36-years

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The lockdown is finally beating me.

This is in a class of its own.

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A brief intermission.

There are several versions of this, some more frenetic, but this is quiet and understated and just the right length. I doubt any American here will recognize anyone but people queued up to be in it.

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A brief intermission.

There are several versions of this, some more frenetic, but this is quiet and understated and just the right length. I doubt any American here will recognize anyone but people queued up to be in it.

One of the best silent comedy films ever made

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One of the best silent comedy films ever made

What's odd and unfortunate is that Eric Sykes had so much trouble getting his films financed.

Here's a puzzle for you. What does Finland's 1985 Eurovision entry, which came 9th but ought by rights to have won, have to do with the aforementioned misfortune?

The video is the same singer, the same song, 32 years later. Pretty good stuff.

[tude dog]

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A brief intermission.

There are several versions of this, some more frenetic, but this is quiet and understated and just the right length. I doubt any American here will recognize anyone but people queued up to be in it.

One of the best silent comedy films ever made

I know who Sykes is. Very funny, even though it's predictable.

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You're not American though.

And it wouldn't get the same laughs if it weren't predictable, that's it's point. There's not a glance or gesture that's not telegraphed beforehand.

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Just remembered I have a Sykes DVD.