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Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 10 Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck

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It would be dishonest of me to claim ‘I’m a Jeff Beck fan’ because I’ve only heard (checking his discography on Wikipedia) a lot less than h...
Monday, 11 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 9 Chimeradour by Jeff Lang

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I like to claim ‘I like all music’, but that’s not really true. I draw the line at schmaltzy shite, ‘show toons’ and some classical music. T...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 8 Amandala by Dave Fiuczynski

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I came across Dave Fiuczynski by chance but I’m bloody glad I did. For once this might be touted as an album which, if it didn’t exactly cha...
Saturday, 9 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 7 Purple Rain by Prince

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One morning, at about 7.30pm, at 45 Milner Road in Kings Heath, Birmingham, in the early 1980s I was woken by my clock radio to a song which...
Friday, 8 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 6 Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

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I’m sure like me everyone reading this can recount several instances in their life which they, for one reason or another, believe they will ...
Thursday, 7 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 5 Symphonies No 40 and No 41 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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With this entry of my ten albums, and I must admit this is a bit of a rule-breaker (if there are any rules): I don’t know what the album was...
Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 4 Tutu by Miles Davis

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I understand there are parts of middle-class, pretentious Britain where it is de rigueur to ‘just love’ Miles Davis, even if you know nothi...
Monday, 4 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 3 Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan

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In 1968 when I was released from boarding school, I somehow scraped into university. It’s wondrous what two A-level poor Es (in chemistry an...
Sunday, 3 May 2020

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 2 Aja by Steely Dan

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Here is the second album of the ten I’ve been asked to nominate that stands out for me. It will come as no surprise to some of my friends: i...

Ten of my favourite albums over the past . . . years (in no particular order). No 1 A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles

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As the text below (lifted from my Facebook page) tells you, one of the challenges going the rounds while everyone and her/his dog is locked ...