David Hamilton (bottom left) is excited!
13.03.2026 00:48
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David Hamilton (bottom left) is excited!
She only collected her medal on 17 February and died on 5 March.
There was however a slide rule in Sam Cook’s hit Wonderful World, released in your period discussion appropriate April 1960 - so it was in the air. I would venture to claim it as the most significant slide rule song in popular music.
41 years ago I had the good luck to see her in the West End:
This is where I first went to the cinema, to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1969 (aged 5).
It’s one of the best songs of his entire career. 🏹
… and that’s really saying something!
Delivery wivvery.
I’m guessing that she isn’t any of the above …
So can watching television be. That’s where I learnt the meaning of the word serendipity (bet you can guess when).
I’d missed the TV premiere of the film (which I saw about a year later) so I read the book. Amongst other things it taught me what guano is.
I read this (particular paperback edition) when I was 11.
Priorities - a chair for the tea!
This suddenly brought to mind another archetypal comedy Interlude piece - Charmaine by Mantovani (Paul was concerned that adding strings to Yesterday might be “too Mantovani”):
youtu.be/bMPYmcFLI7E?...
I did a random number generator and in that universe found The Faceless Ones 5. Probably few people's priority but if it happened we'd be glad all the same.
Look at it from a positive angle: he’s too big a talent to be confined by a frame! ✌️❤️🥁
Farewell to Gary Leeds/Gary Walker (1942-2026), last of the Walker Brothers.
When Ian Fleming appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1963 he chose another cover version of Theme From a Summer Place. When the Imperial War Museum had an exhibition about him a few years back they piped this over the sound system and now it has an incongruous espionage connotation to me.
As I always say it’s the Heinz anniversary so this does what it says on the tin.
RIP to the great Neil Sedaka (1939-2026) seen here hanging out with his musical peers, John and Paul.
Prosthetic Butthole? Didn’t they play a John Peel Session?
I enjoyed the (ahem) newly released Blu-ray of Idle on Parade (1959) from @indicator.bsky.social - isn’t that an uncredited pre-fame John Leyton in the crowd at the railway station? He was appearing in similar bit parts in other films that year. 10 days ago he turned 90.
I want to see George sitting on the bonnet of his Jaguar in William Mews. If they can fit that in on the actual location then they get bonus points from me!
He did!
John Kelly on October 7, 1968. Recording for Long, Long, Long and mixing of While My Guitar Gently Weeps took place. John was absent that day. (I didn’t know any of this - I just looked it up for myself so might as well share).
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke was born on that day.
I think it’s important to at least attempt to find locations that resemble the originals (for instance not just a random road with a zebra crossing). I was very pleased to see that they were filming at Brian Epstein’s actual home in Chapel Street, Belgravia, which does look pretty much as it did.
Peacock pics in Holland Park from four years ago today.
When I started work in 1986 they had a similar tea trolley although the brew was rather too ‘stewed’ and dark for my preference. That disappeared within a few short years and we could have kettles in our office. Later that became boiling water taps in small kitchens.
Sounds like a Charles Dickens character with loose dentures.