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I wrote something for Rapper’s Delight’s 45th anniversary but got distracted and didn’t publish it until a few months back, so here it is again if you missed it… rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-24...

New Beatles info! Why Don’t we do it in the Road?, which was recorded on 9 October 1968, also makes a brief appearance on another White Album song recorded more than four months earlier. Have a listen to this isolated backing track from 20/31 May 1968: (From the fade out of Revolution 1 take 18)

Copies of the book are once again available in Dig Vinyl on Liverpool's Bold Street, as of about an hour ago...

This is a great read - highly recommended.

"I don't like your ties".

🎵 HONEY DON'T: John Lennon on acoustic guitar. One of 92 Bonus Tracks on the POWER TO THE PEOPLE Box Set → bit.ly/JOLstore From John Lennon's rarely-seen 1971 film 'Clock' - Premiering on YouTube TODAY www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIs... #powertothepeople

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If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

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The small but wonderful collection of goodies I have from @gailmyerscough.co.uk so far. You can never have enough mugs and cushions. Get them from Gail!

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😠😠😠 Can't believe this. Get your OWN idea @notyourdrummer.bsky.social !!! 😠😠😠

A lot of great sites in the Tiny Awards down there, but this one is particularly fantastic: 10kdrummachines.com/machines/whi...

NEMS in print badmachinery.com/2025/08/27/n...

😠😠😠 Can't believe this. Get your OWN idea @notyourdrummer.bsky.social !!! 😠😠😠

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BTW from tomorrow (23rd Aug) to the end of the month the book will be available at a reduced price of £5.70... UK: amzn.eu/d/8eWHyLf US: a.co/d/0UDZgQd

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The story of five-year-old John Lennon being forced to choose between his father and mother in Blackpool is almost certainly exaggerated. But Billy Hall, the friend John and his dad were staying with, did emigrate to New Zealand. Did Alf Lennon plan to follow him? I look at the events in this post:

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Happy George’s Black Eye Day to those who celebrate. 19th August 1962 @beatlespod.bsky.social @stevenc63.bsky.social #GeorgeHarrison #RingoStarr #TheBeatles

My favourite anecdote from Penn Jillette -- he met George Martin, they talked a couple of hours, he said "So, I know you get asked this every time, I know you must be sick of it, I feel like shit doing this, but I have to ask. What were they like? What was it like working with Flanders & Swann?"

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EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL! 📚 Talking with the incredible Denise Mina!💥 Friday 22 August! ☀️ COME JOIN! 🤝 Link for tickets 🎟️👇 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Photography Substack is so good and so revealing. I love this account of photographing Ringo Starr for the Atlantic by Dina Litovsky (which the brilliant Alice Zoo, the photographer who shot my Bluesky avatar, linked to on her newsletter). dinalitovsky.substack.com/p/five-minut...

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This is the bit of Beatle footage I'm currently most fascinated by. What got Paul and George doing the Besame Mucho 'Cha-cha BOOM!'s on that day in 1995? youtu.be/d0V1dgSV-n4?...

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This will also interest many of you, I hope: our first Black Archive on the Ncuti Gatwa era, @dalesmithonline.com's analysis of The Devil's Chord. obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t...

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DO give our latest installment of side hustle a go. Join Mike as he does a journalism and gets to the heart of the Crossrail catastrophe.

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Started listening to @gimmesometruthpod.bsky.social today. Wow. HIGHLY recommended.

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