It's only rock n roll (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Track Listing 1. Have I The Right - The Honeycombs 2. Poor Me - Adam Faith 3. Bad To Me - Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas 4. A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon 5. House Of The Rising Sun - The ANimals 6. Out Of Time - Chris Farlowe 7. I'm Alive - The Hollies 8. How Do you Do It - Gerry and the Pacemakers 9. Long Live Love - Sandie Shaw 10. I'm Into Something Good - Herman's Hermits 11. Don't...
Martin Kelly (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Despite being unable to recall ever being asked if I wanted one, I now have a President . Name of Herman, apparently. It really does make one wonder what all those great fusses of not so long ago, like D-Day, were really all about. But hey ho, we are where we are . Let us hope that HE van Rompuy and the sublime Baroness Ashton will either stay or be kept as far away from anything important as is humanly...
Hirhurim - Musings (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
by Joel Rich Question: If one has a choice between davening with a minyan of his own nusach which requires travel or with one of a different nusach next door, how does one evaluate how much extra effort (if any) must be extended to daven with the minyan of his own nusach? Rabbi Dr. Jacob J Schacter - Must Biblical Heroes Be Perfect? : link R’A Kotler and R’SR Hirsch as approaches to how...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Today's Songs for a Sunday is my last for three weeks. It features a group of four boys from Manchester fronted by Peter Noone (ex Heartbeats), who were one of the biggest selling British bands of the 1960s in America. The group had 14 US Top 20 singles and 17 in the UK, and six Top 20 US LPs and two in Britain. They sold over 40 million records, made several films, then split in 1971. They have played...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Guitarist Kevin Jonas of The Jonas Brothers is 22. Actor Chris Robinson (”General Hospital”) is 71. Actress Elke Summer is 69. Singer Art Garfunkel is 68. Actor-playwright Sam Shepard is 66. Singer Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits is 62. Actor Nestor Serrano (”24″) is 54. Actor Robert Patrick (”The X-Files”) is 51. Singer Bryan Adams is [...]
i Own The World (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Many of our regulars here are very familiar with the screen name PUK, or PeterUK. He had been conspicuously absent for the last week, so much so that I was compelled to contact a mutual friend, Clarice Feldman. She’d been having the same concerns and was busy racking her brain trying to think of a [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Harmony Korine is the one-man awkward squad of indie cinema, and his new film Trash Humpers, a tale of delinquent seniors, looks to be his most off-putting yet On stage during a Q&A after the London premiere of his new film Trash Humpers, it's as if Harmony Korine has become a character in one of his movies: a bad-taste bar mitzvah comedian, perhaps. Someone in the audience asks how he cast the...
TheCatGirlSpeaks (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Did that holiday even happen? It feels like it never did. Back to the grindstone full tilt. Work is proper bobbins. Especially when every person I come across is snochering and snivelling and coughing. My throat's already starting to tickle, and my nose feels suspiciously itchy. Urgh. Being back at work has a whole new set of challenges. Namely, in avoiding The Man I Have a Crush On. But who appears...
The Register (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
'You like the Shadows? You'll love Herman's Hermits' Boffins in California say they have produced music-recommendation software which produces playlists "as good as" those from Apple's iTunes Genius - and which has the advantages of collecting no user data and having in its repertoire a lot of music that "Genius knows nothing about".… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles...
Community News - Leicester Mercury (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Ashby-de-la-Zouch: Cannon and Ball are one of Britain’s most successful comedy double acts. Bobby shares his life-changing story and now uses his talents to show that God’s love and forgiveness is for real and available to everyone! He will be talking at Ivanhoe College on Tuesday, November 24, at 7pm. The event, with John Gaughan, of 1960s band Herman’s Hermits, in support, has been...
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The band that had the most impact at Indietracks 2009, to these eyes and ears at least, was The Specific Heats. Their set in the packed church was delayed when their reverb unit rebelled against the UK voltage and caught fire in protest, filling the stage with smoke. Once the offending unit was removed, the band, in matching capes, played a spectacularly energetic set of 60s garage-influenced indiepop,...
Ian Bone (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Here is the text of the speech MARTIN SMITH will be delivering to the forthcoming SWP conference (Schactmainite/Cannonite/Cliffite/Marmite) Comrades……..great gathering…….not since(the last one)…….amazing growth…….new branch in Glossop………….correct analysis…Socialist Alliance tremendous…Respect brilliant……..Reesite...
Woot! - One Day, One Deal (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Eighth I Am. Henry The Eighth I Am. Noone suspects the robot. But if former Herman’s Hermits star Peter Noone isn’t there, you’ll be golden. A good spy isn’t blowing up boats and leaving a trail of receipts. A good spy is invisible. A good spy comes and goes without ever leaving a trace. And a very good spy never even leaves the couch. Really, which would you rather be? A dude...
It's Just My View (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Of all the classic British bands from the 1960's perhaps the band who have been dealt the most unfair deck has been the Small Faces. Rather unjustly viewed as a mere forerunner for Humble Pie and The Faces by many, or just a vehicle of convenience for two of the finest singers to have been produced in these isles in Rod Stewart and Steve Marriott, their own more than ample achievements seem to lie...
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Herman's Hermits made a big hit out of this song, but here's the original excellent version by Frankie Ford: and here's John Fogerty: I will post some more on board ship pictures in a few days. I am always up for taking somebody on a sea cruise.
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