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Thursday, August 22, 2024

'DEAR ORSON WELLES & OTHER ESSAYS' BY MARK COUSINS

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  It was very unexpected to receive an elegant card headlined FOR FAVOUR OF REVIEW from The Irish Pages Press who say they are delighted to ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

ALAN EDWARDS: A NUMBER ONE ENTERTAINMENT PR

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  In the 60s Worthing was a good place for music. It had a large Assembly Room and a Pier Pavilion which promoters would hire to put on band...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

GUNS N' ROSES

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 No person had better credentials to write up the story of Guns N' Roses than the late Danny Sugerman who, at an early age, got his firs...
Friday, June 07, 2024

WITHOUT GETTING KILLED OR CAUGHT: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF GUY CLARK

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  'Guy often says that Nashville in the '70s was like Paris in the '20s. And if that is the case, Guy and Susanna were the F. Sc...
Sunday, June 02, 2024

CHARLIE WATTS: BIOGRAPHY AND HIS TIME IN LEWES

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   M usic journalist Paul Sexton has been interviewing The Rolling Stones for over 30 years, most recently about their latest album ‘Hackney...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

DONNY SUGARMAN'S WONDERLAND AVENUE

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  By chance this extraordinary book fell into my hand first in a tattered paperback [Abacus 1966] with a Ralph Steadman cover and gonzo styl...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

THE BLUES: ROBERT JOHNSON

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I'm deep into the history of the blues starting with the short life of Robert Johnson whose 29 recorded songs are considered the greates...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

EASTERN ELECTRIC 1969

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  Following on from the Previous Post. 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

MICK BROWN: Eastern/Western Journalistic Journeys

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Mick Brown's new book  The Nirvana Express is a substantial and valuable historical vehicle exploring as it does the Western interest in...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

MUSIC FROM THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT

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  This is a truly wonderful album. Joyous. A huge range of wonderful instrumentation. Spiritual. Calming. Healing. I played it to an audienc...
Friday, June 23, 2023

EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING; THE CATALOGUE:AN INDEX OF POSSIBILITIES

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  This article was published in   19 Magazine on May 5 th 1973. Text is by Mick Brown and photos by Jean Kisch and John Tibera EVERYTHI...
Friday, May 19, 2023

MICK FARREN

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  Mick was one of the most prominent figures of the British counter-culture. A poet, author, musician, activist. In the late 60s Mick headed...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

ALLEN GINSBERG DAY

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 Monday 15th May: Spotted  a hardback copy of 'The Letters of Allen Ginsberg' in the window of the Bow Windows  bookshop in Lewes. E...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

CHINA DOMINATES ELECTRIC VEHICLES & RARE EARTH METALS

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  Back in January/February 2020 I wrote an extensive groups of Climate Crisis posts on the Greening of Transport: Aviation/Shipping/Railways...