This is just the short version of the REAL begginers guide to JB right? Because it seems awful skimpy as it basically skips over his late 60s work (Cold Sweat!) and also name-checks the lesser-important Black Power anthem he did.

You could be right, it was a long time ago. I think the filming of it might have just been put back because of the strike. I think they did it on a Sunday.

I should add that the set went bar>lobby>kitchen. Can't remember where the dining room was but all the other stuff (outside, upstairs) was filmed earlier and we watched it on monitors.

Because my mum worked at the BBC and got us tickets I was in the audience for the only episode of Fawlty Towers that was filmed before an audience (because of industrial action at the BBC mucking up the filming schedule) so I've seen the set.

I hear you. I was just playing one of my late mother's Sinatra albums.

I bought a record from her last year! At a Father John Misty gig.

I wish the US version of The Clash's debut didn't exist then I wouldn't have to keep reading comments like this which make me shout "IT'S A  FUCKING TRAVESTY! THEY TURNED A PERFECT ALBUM INTO A COMPILATION WITH SINGLES THAT DON'T FIT ON IT STYLISTICALLY! I MEAN, 'I FOUGHT THE LAW' WAS RECORDED TWO YEARS LATER, AFTER…

Well I lived in the English 80s and he had a shitload of hits there. Which is where it counts.

Me too, I still get upset when I think about it.

'Saturday' is terrible, the central family were just ridiculous (neurosurgeon father, blues guitarist son, poet daughter!) and wanted the psychotic hooligans to kill the smug lot of the them. But his earlier stuff is very good, like Martin Amis he was something of the young punk at one point and novels like 'The…

'Saturday' is terrible, the central family were just ridiculous (neurosurgeon father, blues guitarist son, poet daughter!) and wanted the psychotic hooligans to kill the smug lot of the them. But his earlier stuff is very good, like Martin Amis he was something of the young punk at one point and novels like 'The…

'Teenage Winter' by Saint Etienne, more sad than panicky:

'Teenage Winter' by Saint Etienne, more sad than panicky:

It's Bryan! Not Brian.

It's Bryan! Not Brian.

In  the space of a few weeks I took a girl I was dating to see Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, and The Godfather III. When we came out of the last one she said to me "can we see something NICE next time?"

I did my first year of art college in Whitechapel but this was so long ago I saw the Lloyd's Building being built from my studio window. There was very little to do round there back then, Wapping was a wasteland.

15 minutes to get to Brixton? If you live in Clapham maybe.

Cars 2 was utter shite, quite a shock coming as it did from Pixar, but Winnie the Pooh was really nice.

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