Alan's Album Archives: 2010-08-22

In-depth reviews of classic or neglected albums, mainly from the 1960s and 70s, now a 30 volume e-book series.Artists covered include Beach Boys, Beatles,Byrds, CSNY, Dire Straits, Grateful Dead, Hollies, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Kinks, Monkees, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Searchers, Simon and Garfunkel, Small Faces, 10cc, The Who+Neil Young.Sister site to https://kindredspiritbooks.blogspot.com/ (scifi novels) and https://alonsyaliensdrwho.blogspot.com/ (Dr Who episode reviews)

Friday, 27 August 2010

News, Views and Music Issue 73 (Intro)

August 27:

♫Hello everyone out there and welcome to the 73^rd issue of everyone’s favourite Monkeynuts website. Talking of monkeynuts, I’m astonished that I actually did find some links to monkeynuts when adding our videos at youtube – I thought it was just our site making the word famous! Anyway, you can now see three of our Youtube adverts at the following YouTube addresses (although typing ‘Alan’s Album Archives’ should still find two of them). The latter two feature our very own star-in-the-making: Max The Singing Dog, who along with two of his friends are helping to advertise our site:

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In other news, our website has now rocketed past 1800 views and the stat counter is adding up a little quicker each time, so hello to all our new members and hurrah to all our old members who keep coming back (remind me to give that singing dog a bone as a thankyou!) That also means, stat lovers, that we have had an average of 180 views per calendar month since the site moved to its current home at Moonfruit – that’s gone up almost 100% since the first three months of the site which isn’t too bad at all. Please keep leaving me messages on our ‘about the site’ page though – somebody out there must have an opinion on what we write, surely we can’t have got it all right! (or all wrong!) Anyway, that’s enough back slapping –on with the site...

♫ Beatles News: More on that Apple re-issue series we mentioned a couple of issues back: the set will be released on October 25^th and will contain the first 14 non-Beatles albums issued by the fab four’s company. What’s exciting about this set is that few of these albums have ever made it to CD and the few that have – such as the Badfinger sets – are well overdue a remastered reissue. It appears that the records are being re-issued separately as well as in a big box –which is good news for collectors who don’t have to sit through the Mary Hopkin stuff top get to Billy Preston – although the most interesting rare release of all is Jackie Lomax’s LP ‘Is This What You Want?’, featuring George Harrison’s rare 1968 song ‘Sour Milk Sea’. The full list of albums are James Taylor’s eponymous album, the first four albums by Badfinger – Magic Christian Music (produced by Paul McCartney), No Dice (produced by Mal Evens), Straight Up (produced in part by George Harrison) and Ass, Mary Hopkins’ ‘Postcard’ and ‘Earth Song, Ocean Song’ (both featuring Paul McCartney), Billy Preston’s ‘That’s The Way God Planned It’ (featuring the first version of George’s ‘My Sweet Lord’) and ‘Encouraging Words’, Doris Troy’s eponymous album featuring contributions from George Harrison and Stephen Stills, Jackie Lomax’s ‘Is This What You Want?’ (featuring George Harrison on many tracks), The Modern Jazz Quartet’s two LPs ‘Under The Jasmin Tree’ and ‘Space’ plus the weirdest of all, John Taverner’s classical music ‘The Whale’ and ‘Celtic Requiem’, produced by Ringo!

Oh and in other news, director Richard Lester has donated his copies of early draft scripts for the Beatles films ‘A hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Help!’ to the British Film Institute for safe-keeping. The drafts, titled ‘Beatles’ and ‘Beatles Two’, were written before the songs to accompany them – hence the names – and were donated along with several other items, including a begging letter from Spike Milligan asking for money!

♫ Belle and Sebastian News: At long last the band have announced the news that they will be releasing a new album, tentatively titled ‘Belle and Sebastian Write About Love.’ The album, which hasn’t been given a release date but may well be out in time for Christmas, would be the first release of ‘new’ material from the band since 2005’s ‘The Life Pursuit’, the longest gap by far in B and S’ canon. The band’s website www.belleandsebastian.com are also offering a competition where fans can have their artwork included on the packaging. To enter, simply chalk the album title in some non-permanent paint or chalk (which can be easily washed off) on any part of your neighbourhood you fancy, take a picture of it and send them in to the website. As well as being on the packaging, the band also want to use the pictures in a forthcoming TV documentary – more news on that if ands when we hear about it. And, presumably, if you get an Asbo for your graffiti the band can use that picture on their artwork too!

♫ ANNIVERSARIES (August 23-29^th): Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear AAA members Keith Moon (drummer with The Who 1965-78) who would have been 64 on August 23^rd and Chris Curtis (drummer with The Searchers) who would have been 69 on August 26^th. Anniversaries of events include: John Lennon marries first wife Cynthia in the presence of Paul, George and Brian Epstein but Ringo – who has been in the band a matter of a fortnight – doesn’t find out about it till afterwards (August 23^rd 1962); security guards at a Stones concert in Manchester get so desperate to keep control of rioting fans they end up turning hoses on the audience mid-show! (August 23^rd 1965); Patti Harrison goes to a lecture given by the Maharishi at the London Hilton and persuades her husband George to visit his next lecture in Bangor when she returns home (August 24^th 1967); Mark David Chapman receives a life sentence for the murder of John Lennon (August 24^th 1981); The Who revive Tommy for the first time in 15 years with an all-star charity event Los Angeles’ Universal Ampitheatre (August 24^th 1989); Brian Wilson makes his only stage appearance with The Beach Boys between 1966 and 1976 (August 25^th 1967); Henry McCullough becomes the first – of several – members to leave Paul McCartney’s band Wings (August 25^th 1973); The Beatles see the Maharishi at Bangor, Wales (August 26^th 1967); 10cc make their first stage appearance at the Isle Of Mann’s Douglas Palace Lido (August 26^th 1973); The Beatles take a break from their latest American tour meet Elvis at his Beverly Hills’ Home (August 27^th 1965); Brian Epstein, Beatles manager, dies of mysterious causes (August 27^th 1967); Apple Records launches in the UK with two singles, The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ and Mary Hopkins’ ‘Those Were The Days’ (August 27^th 1968); The Rolling Stones sign with manager Allen Klein (August 28^th 1965); Cat Stevens releases his second-best selling single ‘Moonshadow’ (August 28^th 1971); 15-year-old George Harrison plays with The Quarrymen for the very first time (August 29^th 1958) and finally, The Beatles play their last ever concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park (August 29^th 1966).

News, Views and Music Issue 73 (Top Ten): AAA Stars' careers away from music

♫ So, Paul McCartney did what any sensible band member does when the greatest cash cow in the world breaks down – he goes and buys a sheep farm in Scotland! And bizarrely that’s not the weirdest thing a member of the AAA has done, whether it’s by getting any job they could find until the music career kicked in or a side-project to fill in time and make some extra cash, there aren’t half some weird alternative careers out there...

Before finding fame:

5) Marty Balin (singer with Jefferson Airplane 1965-70 and Jefferson Starship 1974-78) didn’t have the kind of problems getting his new band their first gig that other artists on this list had. That’s because he was already co-owner of his own club, ‘The Matrix’, in San Francisco. The club soon became second home to the Airplane and it was there that many of the leading figures of the day first saw the band, including early supporter and music critic Ralph Gleason, whose support was invaluable to the band getting their record contract with RCA Victor. The club wasn’t just about the band, though – other famous visitors include writer Hunter S Thompson (who mentions the club in his book ‘Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas’ and is surprisingly complementary about it) and was also home to many other leading lights of the psychedelic days such as Janis Joplin’s band Big Brother And The Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, It’s A Beautiful Day and the Velvet Underground. Marty sold his shares in early 1967, just as the Airplane were becoming one of the biggest bands of America’s West Coast, although the band and its spin-offs like Hot Tuna continued to play there well into the mid-70s.

4) Mick Jagger (singer with the Rolling Stones 1962-present) was a student who balanced his early career with the Stones with that most rock and roll of subjects, economics. Bear in mind this wasn’t in the current day and age when students are more or less forced to get a degree if they want any job at all but in a day when very few went to university – and it wasn’t on just any campus Mick studied but the London School Of Economics! Sadly for his family but gladly for us, Mick dropped out after a year, although he pretty much put in an appearance to make sure he, Keith and Brian could life off his student grant by the end when music took over his life. To be fair, though, Mick did get three very impressive A-Level results and his tutors remember him as a man with some talent for his work, whenever he actually turned up, although among his fellow students Mick was better remembered by his tutors for illegally riding a motorcycle onto the campus library than for anything to do with music!

3) Godley and Creme (members of 10cc between 1972 and 1976 and a duo from 1976-88) were perpetual art students who studied several courses before taking up music, including one in graphic design. As part of their assignments, the pair were coerced into working on cardboard models for a nearby film studios and ended up painting the background props seen in such films as the Civil War epic ‘Cromwell’ and fences for the famous Jenny Agutter-version of ‘The Railway Children’. Alas for Hollywood, the pair soon ended up in various bands, hooking up with Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldmann and earning a fortune along the way, so they never did get to see their artwork used in a film proper.

2) Mark Knopfler (guitarist and songwriter with Dire Straits 1978-93) was a teacher for quite a few years before forming Dire Straits (in fact he was 28 by the time the band got their first recording contract, quite an age for rock stars of his generation). He wasn’t a teacher of music though – or even English, oddly, given how prosaic and literary many of his lyrics would go on to be – but history. This might not seem as weird as it sounds when you consider that Mark was the son of a teacher anyway or how many of his songs are obsessed about ‘roots’ and past events shaping the present. Mark was a pretty popular teacher according to one biography I read which reproduced a ‘thankyou’ card written by an excited pupil who clearly loved her time in Mr Knopfler’s class, although the other teachers are meant to have frowned about how much Mark’s musical hobby was taking up his time. Huh, as if all that guitar practice would ever amount to anything!

1) Alan Hull (guitarist and songwriter with Lindisfarne 1970-72 and 1978-95) wrote many of his earliest and best songs while working as a psychiatric nurse. Hull, you see, married young and only broke big with Lindisfarne after a number of failed music projects both solo and with a number of varied groups, so in 1960s Newcastle was always on the look out for any part time job he could get. Fans have much to be thankful to Hull’s oddest career path for, from Alan’s love of Magritte paintings he got into thanks to a patient which inspire many tracks and album cover paintings to the classic song ‘Clear White Light’, a debate about life after death that came about in part from his time with the patients. Above all, being on call often with very little to do meant Hully could still make money while getting on with his songwriting, writing other tracks like ‘Lady Eleanor’ and ‘We Can Swing Together’ during this period. Oh and as if that wasn’t enough, Hully was also offered an MP’s post for Newscastle in the 1980 Labour government although, after a lot of thought, he turned it down. No wonder we suddenly got all those anti-Thatcher and Reagan songs on the Lindisfarne reunion albums!

After Finding Fame:

5) George Harrison bought his own film company ‘Handmade Films’, which actually became rather more successful during the 1980s than his own music! Whilst so many artists go into acting it seemed ridiculous to list them all (including Ringo, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Roger Daltrey, David Crosby and Neil Young), George’s contribution is worth noting not only for its success (films like ‘The Life Of Brian’, ‘Withnail and I’ and ‘Mona Lisa’ were big money spinners for the day, especially considering how low budget they were) and because the company re-ignited the whole of the British Film Industry in the 1980s, but because of all the Beatles George was the one with least interest in film and acting. In fact, George only started the company because so many film studios kept blocking The Monty Pythons’ projects and he wanted to see them unedited and uncensored (‘The most expensive trip to the cinema I ever had’ the Beatle is meant to have dryly noted). The project all went sour when George’s close friend and business associate ran off with all the money, with Harrison eventually pulling out his own interest in the company in 1994 as the productions tailed off both in quality and quantity. George himself only appeared in two films – a cameo in the truly oddball Michael Caine comedy ‘Water’ (which would have been great with better casting – Caine is even wetter than usual, excuse the pun, and Billy Connolly isn’t much better) and ‘Shangai Surprise’, the seemingly cursed Madonna film, where George is working at a nightclub and writing his worst ever songs. Best of all, though, George’s money helped finance ‘Time Bandits’ – the best film of all time that had nothing to do with The Monkees or Beatles (says me, anyway) and features the Harrison song ‘Dream Away’ as its theme to boot.

4) Micky Dolenz (drummer and singer with The Monkees 1966-70) became a director after several years as an actor. His role with the band must have held him in good stead for the zany humour on his two biggest projects, which were very successful on British TV but aren’t that well known anywhere else. ‘Metal Micky’ (1980) is the one most fans quote, a series about a robot created by a science-mad kid to give him a playmate to talk to, and whose ‘metal’ name got added at the last minute when people pointed out how similar the looks and voice were to Mr Dolenz! Even better, but now sadly forgotten, was ‘Luna’ (1983-84), another children’s series set in the year 2040 when families no longer exist in the way they do now and when bureaucracy has gone mad. It also, hilariously, featured a granddad who was a punk rocker –a big stretch of the imagination in 1983 when the genre was in its infancy, although there are quite a few of them around today! The show only ran for two series but was quite pioneering and influentialfor it’#s time. Micky also turned to directing stage work, becoming the mastermind behind a highly successful British production of everyone’s favourite gangster musical not written by Paul Simon, ‘Bugsy Malone’. Bring on the atomic thunderbusters!

3) Roger Daltrey (singer with The Who 1965-82 and various reunions) used the spare time on his hands from The Who’s slow touring criteria of the 1970s to develop his own trout farm. The Dorest Trout Farm and Lakedown Trout Fishery have become almost as successful in culinary circles as The Who were in musical ones, with Roger receiving many awards and compliments for his stock of rainbow trout. Roger reportedly also tried out as a ‘worm farmer’ but gave up the idea after a few months when his first year’s crop proved disastrous. Daltrey has also said that the peaceful act of fishing acts as a strong counterpart to his months of being away on tour and helps him return to normality in between gigs. And that’s not the only fishy tale in music circles – Ian Anderson, lead vocalist with Jethro Tull, runs an equally successful salmon farm!

2) Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam (in the public eye from 1967-78 and again from 2004) runs his own Muslim school. And I don’t just mean as a figurehead – back in the early days, before Yusuf came out of his musical ‘retirement’, he often took the singing lessons and the odd Qu’ran reading class as well as doing plenty of charity work. Had the world moved in different ways, Cat would also have been remembered in quite a different way – during the Gulf War and the US’ first invasion of Iraq in 1990 he successfully bid for the release of four English prisoners, working on behalf of America and Britain to get them home safely. The current governments, or should I say Bush and Blair’s Governments, were deeply embarrassed by this though, especially after having Yusuf deported for being on a ‘suspicious Muslims’ list, and have pretty much successfully covered the fact up since.

1) Finally, Neil Young used to have his own secondary empire making model trains. The venture began after his son Ben was born with Cerebral Palsy and father and son had difficulties communicating until Neil brought out his adored model train set. Neil got in touch with Lionel Trains with his own ideas where children with disabilities could control the track simply by turning their head and the idea proved so successful in the 1980s that Neil is meant to have spent more time working with train companies than on his music! Neil and Ben also have their own mammoth 00 gauge train set laid out permanently in their barn and are said to have spent billions of dollars installing it properly – with natural sunlight from two huge sylights, no foam or rubber and only natural materials to decorate the tracks, which all of the Young family add to regularly after visiting knick-knack shops or finding bits and pieces in the countryside. The trains also take a ridiculous 10 minutes to complete a full circuit of the track!

Well, that’s it for another newsletter. Be sure to tune in (and drop out) next week!

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175) Days Of The Week AAA Style http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/days-of-week-aaa-style-news-views-and.html

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177) Interesting AAA Line-Ups That Were Or Nearly Were http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/ten-interesting-aaa-line-ups-that-were.html

178) The 101 Greatest AAA Songs Of All Time (Maybe?!) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-greatest-101-aaa-songs-well-ish-see.html

179) Mrs Thatcher Meets The Devil http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/mrs-thatcher-meets-devil-plus-intro-for.html

180) First Recordings By Future AAA Stars http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/first-

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181) The Ten Oldest AAA Songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-ten-oldest-aaa-songs-news-views-and.html

182) AAA Artists (Books Of Paintings) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/aaa-artists-books-of-paintings-news.html

183) AAA Appearances on TV Show 'Colour Me Pop' http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/aaa-appearances-on-colour-me-pop-tv.html

184) AAA Years In Song http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/aaa-years-in-song-news-views-and-music.html

185) A Tribute To Storm Thorgerson Via The Five AAA Bands He Worked With http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-tribute-to-hipgnosis-via-five-aaa.html

186) Five Top AAA Apps http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/top-five-aaa-apps-news-views-and-music.html

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194) Ten Of The Best AAA Riffs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/ten-of-best-aaa-riffs-news-views-and.html

195) Twenty AAA Milestone Moments Part One 1956-66 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/twenty-aaa-milestone-events-part-one.html

196) Twenty AAA Milestone Moments Part Two 1967-80 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/twenty-aaa-milestone-events-part-two.html

197) Eleven Random Recent Purchases http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/eleven-random-recent-purchases.html

198) Five AAA Outcasts Who Know More Than They Let Onhttp://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/five-aaa-outcast-characters-who-know.html

199) That's Why They Call It The (Top Ten) Blues! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/thats-why-they-call-it-bluesaaa-top-ten.html

200) The Monkees In Relation To Postmodernism (University Dissertation) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/university-dissertation-monkees-in.html

201) The Music Never Stopped: AAA Youtube Video #5 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-music-never-stopped-alans-album.html

202) Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain': Was It About One Of The AAA Crew? http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/carly-simons-youre-so-vain-was-it-about.html

203) Ten AAA Stars In Further Education http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/aaa-stars-in-further-education-top-five.html

204) AAA Dramas and Plays http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/aaa-dramas-and-plays-news-views-and.html

205) Abandoned AAA Album Covers http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/abandoned-aaa-album-covers-top-ten-news.html

206) Chinese Horoscopes AAA Style http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/chinese-horoscopes-aaa-style-top-twelve.html

207) Top Ten Songs The Beatles 'Gave Away' http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/top-ten-songs-beatles-gave-away-news.html

208) AAA Song Titles That Are The Same As Other AAA Songs http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/aaa-songs-with-same-titles-as-other-aaa.html

209) Updates to Our 'Special Editions' #1 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/updates-to-our-special-editions-on.html

210) Most Parodied AAA Albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-most-parodied-aaa-album-covers-news.html

211) Longest Average AAA Songs Per Album http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-longest-average-aaa-songs-per-album.html

212) Shortest Average AAA Songs Per Album http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-shortest-average-aaa-songs-per.html

213) An AAA Guide To The Twenty Best Dr Who Stories http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-20-best-doctor-who-stories-aaa.html

214) AAA Songs and Albums Based On Books http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/aaa-songsalbums-based-on-books-and.html

215) Top Ten AAA Concert Quotes http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/top-aaa-quotes-from-concerts-top.html

216) Top Ten Surrealist AAA Lyrics http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/top-ten-sureallist-aaa-song-lyrics-news.html

217) AAA 'Christmas Presents' we'd most like to have next year http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/aaa-christmas-presents-wed-most-like-to.html

218) Review Of The Year 2013 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/review-of-year-2013-news-views-and.html

219) Nominate This Site For A Shorty Award 2014 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/nominate-this-site-for-shorty-award-2014.html

220) A Tribute To Phil Everly http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/a-tribute-to-phil-everly-everly.html

221) Dr Who and the AAA (Five Musical Links) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/01/dr-who-and-five-musical-links-to-alans.html

222) Five Random Recent Purchases http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/01/five-random-recent-purchases-news-views.html

223) AAA Grammy Nominees http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/02/aaa-grammy-nominees-top-twelve-news.html

224) Ten AAA songs that are better heard unedited and in full http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/02/ten-aaa-songs-that-are-better-unedited.html

225) The shortest gaps between AAA albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-shortest-gaps-between-aaa-albums.html

226) The longest gaps between AAA albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-longest-gaps-between-aaa-albums.html

227) Top ten AAA drummers http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2014/03/top-ten-aaa-drummers-news-views-and.html

228) Top Ten AAA Singles (In Terms of 'A' and 'B' Sides) http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/top-ten-aaa-singles-and-b-sides-news.html

229) The Stories Behind Six AAA Logos http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-stories-behind-six-aaa-logos.html

230) AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! The Best Ten AAA Screams http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-best-aaa-screams-top-ten-news-views.html

231) An AAA Pack Of Horses http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aaa-songs-about-horses-top-ten-news.html

232) AAA Granamas - Sorry, Anagrams! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aaa-anagrams-news-views-and-music-issue.html

233) AAA Surnames and Their Meanings http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aaa-surnames-and-their-meanings-news.html

234) 20 Erroneous AAA Album Titles http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/twenty-erroneous-aaa-album-titles-news.html

235) The Best AAA Orchestral Arrangements http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/fifteen-great-aaa-string-parts-news.html

236) Top 30 Hilariously Misheard Album Titles/Lyrics http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/top-thirty-hilariously-misheard-aaa.html

237) Ten controversial AAA sackings - and whether they were right http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/ten-controversial-aaa-sackings-news.html

238) A Critique On Critiquing - In Response To Brian Wilson http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/a-critique-on-critiquing-in-response-to.html

239) The Ten MusicianS Who've Played On The Most AAA Albums http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-ten-musicians-whove-played-on-most.html

240) Thoughts on #CameronMustGo http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/thoughts-on-cameronmustgo.html

241) Random Recent Purchases (Kinks/Grateful Dead/Nils Lofgren/Rolling Stones/Hollies) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/six-random-recent-purchases-kinksg.html

242) AAA Christmas Number Ones http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/aaa-christmas-number-ones.html

243) AAA Review Of The Year 2014 (Top Releases/Re-issues/Documentaries/DVDs/Books/Songs/ Articles plus worst releases of the year) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/aaa-review-of-year-2014.html

244) Me/CFS Awareness Week 2015 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/mecfs-awareness-week-at-alans-album.html

245) Why The Tory 2015 Victory Seems A Little...Suspicious http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/why-tory-victory-seems-deeply.html

246) A Plea For Peace and Tolerance After The Attacks on Paris - and Syria http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/a-plea-for-peace-and-toleration.html

247) AAA Review Of The Year 2015 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2015.html

248) The Fifty Most Read AAA Articles (as of December 31st 2015) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-fifty-most-read-aaa-posts-2008-2015.html

249) The Revised AAA Crossword! http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2016_07_10_archive.html

250) AAA Review Of The Year 2016 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2016.html

251) Half-A-Dozen Berries Plus One (An AAA Tribute To Chuck Berry) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/an-aaa-covers-tribute-to-chuck-berry.html

252) Guest Post: ‘The Skids – Joy’ (1981) by Kenny Brown https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/guest-post-skids-joy-1981.html

253) AAA Review Of The Year 2017 https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2017.html

254) Guest Post: ‘Supertramp – Some Things Never Change’ by Kenny Brown https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2018/06/guest-review-supertramp-some-things.html

255) AAA Review Of The Year 2018 https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-aaa-review-of-year-2018.html

256) AAA Review Of The Year 2019 plus Review Of The Decade 2010-2019 https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-alans-album-archives-review-of-year.html

257) Tiermaker https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2019/06/alans-album-archives-on-tiermaker.html

258) #Coronastock https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2020/04/coronastock.html

259) #Coronadocstock https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2020/05/coronadocstock.html

Friday, 27 August 2010

News, Views and Music Issue 73 (Intro)

News, Views and Music Issue 73 (Top Ten): AAA Stars' careers away from music

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