“A Lie Is Halfway Round the World Before the Truth Has Got Its Boots On.” That seems to apply to the ratings headlines about the funeral of Elizabeth Windsor. Papers like the Daily Mail, but other sources that are genuine news outlets, repeated that 5 billion would watch the funeral. Given the population of theContinue reading “He’ll rule no more“
Tag Archives: Rainbow
We Build a Tower of Stone
I learnt about Rainbow backwards. The first songs I heard were singles in 1981 from Difficult to Cure like I Surrender. I earned income babysitting in that last year in Royston and one of my clients was the Greening family – John Greening had their previous album Down To Earth (most famously featuring Since YouContinue reading “We Build a Tower of Stone”
Just like somebody slammed the door
I know that Heavy Metal is not to everyone’s taste, but it is a big branch of rock music. Actually, the music is complicated, rather than the wall of noise that people accuse of it being. I do not mean the vast variety of sub genres (thrash, death, speed, hair, soft, NWOBHM, etc) but theContinue reading “Just like somebody slammed the door”
Five Miles Out 