Philip Bryer
And Now It's All This...
Compare and contrast John Lennon’s extraordinary performance at the Bigger Than Jesus press conference with those of some Australian...
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Philip Bryer
- Apr 12
- 8 min
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my blog?
We’d just got out of the ‘Mad Day Out’ psychedelic taxi at the gates of Strawberry Fields when a car came screaming to a halt beside us,...
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Philip Bryer
- Feb 8
- 3 min
The Abbey Road Adventure
On the way to meet a pal* for lunch at Giovanni’s in Covent Garden, I was on the train from rural Somerset to London early on a freezing...
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Philip Bryer
- Jan 3
- 3 min
Would You Stay Here Again?
Have you seen Channel 4’s reality show, Four in a Bed? As the introductory blurb has it, four B&B owners throw open their doors and take...
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Philip Bryer
- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
Coffee Mates
San Francisco, a dozen years ago: There was a coffee shop at pavement level right next door to our hotel. In its favour, it opened at 6...
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Philip Bryer
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Sirens, the Bar, and the Dan
"Partenopei" is a popular nickname for the Italian football club Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli – more commonly, Napoli - and people from...
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Philip Bryer
- Sep 12, 2022
- 3 min
The Neapolitan Temptress
While on holiday with the family in Italy recently, I was packed off to the pharmacy with a brief list of medicinal requirements: the...
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Philip Bryer
- Aug 28, 2022
- 4 min
Go Weston, Young Man
One of the great benefits of my self-employed working life is having the opportunity to take random time off; to close down the laptop...
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Philip Bryer
- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
It has been said that musicians, specifically rock stars, are not only not particularly smart they are also remarkably self-centred...
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Philip Bryer
- Jun 21, 2022
- 2 min
We are sorry to announce...
Announcement: “We are sorry to announce that the 18:27 Great Western Railway service to Bristol Temple Meads is delayed by approximately...
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Philip Bryer
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
The Game of the Names
A few years ago, I walked into a local pub and was greeted thus by Kirstie, the bartender: “Hello! Haven’t seen you in ages! How are you...
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Philip Bryer
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
The Things I Miss the Most*
After my sudden, unwelcome arrival on the scrapheap four years ago, there have been some major lifestyle changes. Not least, that since...
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Philip Bryer
- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
Hey, Hey, You, You, Get Off of My Land
I found a pleasant variation to one of my usual country walks during lockdown, when I noticed some people who I had been ahead of shortly...
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Philip Bryer
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
I'd Rather Jacques
It became a thing in our house for a while that if I was playing a Jacques Brel CD it meant one of two things: 1. I was full to the...
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Philip Bryer
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
One More Time!
I have been thinking about records where the band leader hands out instructions to the musicians. Here are a few of my favourites: John...
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Philip Bryer
- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
Nine Facts About Beatles' Songs
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer A bouncy tune with an incongruous lyric about a mass-murderer. None of the Beatles but Paul McCartney liked this...
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Philip Bryer
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
Spooks
A few years ago, we moved into a 200-year-old cottage in the heart of the Somerset Levels. The previous owners had left us an envelope...
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Philip Bryer
- Jul 21, 2021
- 1 min
Funk Soul Brother
Back in the nineties, I heard a single on the BBC’s London radio station which made such an impression on me that I set out for a local...
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Philip Bryer
- Jun 26, 2021
- 3 min
Fame
I used to spend a lot of time in our family shed in the mid-sixties. At the age of six or seven, I had found something in there that...
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Philip Bryer
- May 7, 2021
- 1 min
100 Songs, 100 Years
It started out as an idle whim which surfaced during a long wander across the Somerset Levels. Could I build a Spotify playlist with a...
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