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Recent Posts
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John Lydon
John Lydon is a famous Anglo-Irish butter salesman.
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John Milton
John Milton was the only major English poet to write all of his works in Latin.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was a French writer who never learned what a paragraph is.
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‘What Is Left?’ – A Question
This is a simple question, but one I think of the most important to ask right now. It is two questions, in fact. What is left to humanity? on the one hand, and then What has become of any meaningful counterculture? Claims the world is about to end are not new. Certain religious beliefs to…
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James Joyce
James Joyce was an Irish writer who left Ireland as soon as he could and, after writing a series of increasingly unfathomable books, died in Zurich in 1941. The Irish Government refused to allow the repatriation of his remains back into Ireland and proudly commemorates him today on the Irish £10 note.
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John Lennon
John Lennon was a peace campaigner and the cheekiest member of the popular Beatles boy band. His songs include All You Need Is Love, Imagine, Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and Woman. He was rewarded with an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen in 1965 and The John Lennon Airport is named after him.
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Lou Reed
Lou Reed was a songwriter who wrote about heroin in songs about heroin such as I’ll Be Your Mirror, Sunday Morning, Pale Blue Eyes, Satellite Of Love, New Age, Perfect Day, Coney Island Baby, Growing Up In Public, Teach The Gifted Children and, of course, The Day John Kennedy Died.
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Two Beatles Noticings
Here are two things I’ve noticed that I’ve never seen mentioned concerning two Beatles songs. I don’t know, but maybe they really haven’t had an official noticing yet and I am, as they say, frist! The first noticing concerns the old b-side “I’ll Get You”, that appeared opposite the first Blockbuster “She Loves You”. Although…
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Whatever Happened To?
This is one of the last great Lennon songs, a ditched demo recorded I think in 1977 and intended for a sort of rock ‘musical’. As Lennon hated musicals, I have no idea what form such a production would have taken. I presume it would have been very much off-Broadway. It seems to have a…
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Uppermost in our minds / Is the blinds