... and next on the rostrum, Tim. Can you spot him below?
That's right! He'd be the little feller. So, without further ado, let's find out a bit about our new friend. Here, as Tim said at the top of his entry, are the votes from the Luxembourg jury - happily, I notice a few votes for the Brits, here.
First ever gift record:
It Only Took a Minute (Joe Brown and Bruvvers)
First single with your own money:
Messing About On the River (Josh Macrae)
First LP with your own money:
Sell Out (The Who) with butterfly poster which I got a shop assistant to take off the wall and put in the LP sleeve
Favourite top three singles ever:
Give Me Some Truth (John Lennon) b side to Love Parlophone R6059
Baba O'Riley (The Who) a single in Europe and should have been released in UK
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen)
Favourite top three LPs ever:
Who's Next (The Who)
Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Led Zeppelin (their first)
Three LPs that you own that you think that nobody else would have ever heard:
Ace of Sunlight (Bronco)
Zachariah O S T (Various)
Oliver in the Overworld (Freddie and the Dreamers)
Favourite top three artists from ‘The World of’ series:
Blues Power ( sorry not a solo artist but my favourite of the whole series)
John Mayall
Eric Clapton
Favourite top three LP covers:
Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Strange Days (The Doors)
Beatles Anthology Set of 3 LPs ( makes a great picture when side by side)
Favourite record label:
Any label that has 7 or 12 inches of vinyl round it
First gig:
The Who (Birmingham Odeon 1971)
Most recent gig:
Andy Fairweather Lowe (Platform Morecambe October 2019)
Favourite gig:
Goodbye Summer (September 1971)
Other gigs that you attended that you consider notable:
Rolling Stones (Sheffield 2006)
Favourite fiction:
Nightingale Gallery by P C Doherty
Favourite non fiction:
Britain's Wildlife Plants and Flowers: A Complete Spotter's Guide: The Readers Digest
Favourite comic as a kid:
Buster
Favourite top three films ever:
Carry On Up the Khyber
Oh Mr Porter
The Sparks Brothers (documentary released in cinemas July 2021)
Favourite painting:
Raft of the Medusa - Theodore Gericault
Favourite painter:
William Frederick Yeames
Favourite Hi-Fi ever owned:
Fidelity System 4.40 Music centre
New section - Favourite LP title:
2 Ozs of Plastic With a Hole In the Middle (Man)
THE CHAT
Now I believe this piece to be in truncated form - there are gaps that I recognise from my query sheet but we must wait for those pearls to form and grow into something beautiful. Mind you, check out the Elvis lyric chosen to head up this section ...
As you have probably guessed from previous contact I am inclined to pop song lyrics into most of my correspondence.
So lets have "a little less conversation, a little more action"
OK, OK! Message received, Tim. Now, you started this. So, what are your views on the Eurovision Song Contest?
My view of Eurovision . I am not a fan at the moment. I used to watch it in the 60's but then lost interest . It seems now that everyone hates the British so we are never going to win even if we had a Tom Jones Paul McCartney Adele trio as the UK entry.
I bet you can still taste the buzz of buying your Who Sell Out LP ...
From my original purchase of Who Sell Out I have now got 5 version. 3 vinyl and 2 CD .I have resisted the temptation to buy the 2021 super extended deluxe remastered vinyl /cd with booklet and additional sleeve note, please buy it as we want to make more money from you , edition.
I didn’t realise that Baba O’Riley was not released here …
I’m familiar with Bronco but even Spotify can’t find Ace of Sunlight for me to listen to. Good ol’ YouToob supplied the necessary. Pretty cool. Very 70s. How did you come by this one?
Bronco were a local group from Kidderminster . Jess Roden Robbie Blunt and Kevyn Gammond were all local boys .The Blunt family own a couple of independent shoe shops and wholesale warehouse in the area. The business was started by Robbie's forefathers .One of my early girlfriends was a Blunt. Needless to say I have all 3 of their albums . Further info .. Kevyn did some work with Robert Plant, another local lad , after Led Zeppelin .Robert still lives ( or at least has a house ) within 3 miles of the shop we used to keep in Cookley before we moved north.
The Sparks film – were you first in the queue as you suggested on Facebook? How was it?
The Sparks film is not released in the UK yet but I am certain it will become one of my favourite films , I will probably have to stream it as the cinemas in my area are not big enough to give it a showing.
... and for now, that is it ... until another time