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Philip Bryer

Oct 12, 2020
3 min

The Dark Age of Song

The pop lyric as unreconstructed sexist claptrap from the Dark Ages...

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Philip Bryer

Aug 13, 2020
2 min

Party Party!

...so – at the age of seventeen – we got to hang out with a bunch of blokes we looked up to and a group of girls we just looked at.

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Philip Bryer

Jul 1, 2020
1 min

Who Was That Man?

...two nondescript blokes walked into the shed that night, but when the third came in after them, “I just couldn’t believe who it was.”

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Philip Bryer

Jun 1, 2020
1 min

Frank Talks

In the sixties, Frank Sinatra asked maverick singer, songwriter, and producer Lee Hazlewood for help.

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Philip Bryer

Feb 10, 2020
3 min

Whose Band is it Anyway?

McQueen constantly did what he could to distract attention so future audiences would look only at him...any bit of business possible

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Philip Bryer

Jan 29, 2020
1 min

From Small Things

In common with all the best records it’s under three minutes long

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Philip Bryer

Feb 2, 2019
3 min

Selfiesh

Spike Milligan, Paul Jones, Razzle magazine, The Manfreds, Rod Stewart, and Susan George all appear in this positively glittering episode.

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