David Hepworth
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When you turn on the radio tomorrow morning and hear an actor talking about how brave it was to take a part, think of this....
Our colleagues out on a shout at
@Hastingsrnli
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“Unknown”. Good to know that jobs in the media no longer denied to the ignorant.
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Torn between staying up for Mrs Browns Boys and getting up early to catch it tomorrow morning.
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RIP Brigit Forsyth, creator of the immortal Thelma on “Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads”, a reminder that most of our best actors aren’t stars.
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Feel sorry for anyone who doesn't like the Beatles this week. Feel sorry for people who don't like the Beatles any week.
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If they’re not careful Chelsea will exhaust that store of good will they’ve been building up over the last twenty years.
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Seriously, Trump should turn Mar-a-Lago into a theme park. It would do well. Call it Disgraceland.
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Met week-old grandson today. Told him we were Spurs. Best to get that out of the way before he starts enjoying life.
#COYS
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The thing I loved about Barry Cryer was the way he laughed at other panellists’ jokes.
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Last time England knocked out Germany in a tournament this appeared in the shops a week later.
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The great Kirsty MacColl, who was tragically killed 20 years ago today, didn’t get on as many magazine covers as she should have done.
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This shot of Charlie Chaplin selling war bonds on Wall Street over a century ago is dazzling in every way.
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Fitness tip for housebound boomers. Place spectacles on top of head, then go up and down stairs looking for them.
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Recorded 50 years ago this weekend in just two sessions.
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Robert Freeman, whose death has just been announced, shot this - forgive me - iconic cover in a hotel corridor in Bournemouth, using available light.
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I know no more perfect example of writing than this.
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Released 50 years ago this week and arguably one of the most influential compilations ever compiled.
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50 years ago today The Beatles on roof at Savile Row.
50 years before that Versailles Peace Conference.
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We have no plans for New Year’s Eve. Every time the phone rings we’re worried somebody’s going to invite us somewhere.
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This picture is magical. Can't help thinking it wouldn't have existed at all without magazines.
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Somewhere there is someone who lost an election to Mark Francois.
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When I was young politicians apologised and pop stars didn’t.
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Happy New Year. It’s 50 years since 1971, when this lot came out.
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Mark Ellen and I have given Neil Tennant his Smash Hits exit interview forty years late.
@WIYElondon
podcast coming soon.
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Youngest daughter, the family’s best chooser of cards, sent this to my wife on her birthday. I fear they are talking of me.
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Farewell, Dusty Hill of ZZ Top. When the drummer was drying out and the singer was taking a year off, Dusty got a job at the airport and waited.
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John Lennon left England 50 years ago this week, never to return.
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In 1967 illustrator Michael Leonard was asked to imagine what young stars like Mick Jagger would look like in thirty years time.
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What’s the most exciting record you ever woke up to on Christmas morning? For me it was this.
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Paul McCartney’s 77 today. He recorded “I’m Down”, “Yesterday” and “I’ve Just Seen A Face” on the same day. This is what you call range.
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Thanks to Reggie Perrin If you’re of a certain age when somebody says “great” you are simply compelled to add “super”.
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This is simply glorious - colour footage of Swinging London with raw sound - no commentary, no twee music. This is what it felt like.
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At last, something the whole nation can unite around.
If Spurs win the League & Wenger signs a new contract, I will have to leave the country.
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There’s not a thing about this that isn’t brilliant.
Porridge - No Way Out (24th December 1975). A hardy Christmas perennial, it wouldn't be the same if this episode didn't get an outing at around this time of the year.
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I think we should give Trump the traditional English welcome for unwanted guests. Draw the curtains, hide behind the sofa and pretend we’re not in.
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I met Bernard Cribbins once, shook his hand and thanked him for a lifetime's entertainment. It was the least I could do.
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Every time I have a jab I include at least one Hancock line in small talk with medical professionals, who have been responding with puzzled looks for about forty years now. I intend to continue.
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Between 1970 and 1972 Michael Nesmith released four records nobody bought. Hence the title of his next one.
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Farewell to the last pop singer to have actually fought in WWII.
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Crikey. This feels like a moment.
Houston Police Chief
@ArtAcevedo
: “Let me just say this to the President of the United States, on behalf of the police chiefs of this country: please, if you don’t have something constructive to say, keep your mouth shut.”
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This clip of 33-year old George Harrison watching his 21 year old self is a rare joy. He would have been 77 today.
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At Christmas 1964 my Uncle Stan said “next Christmas you’ll have forgotten all about Paul McCartney”. I said “when he’s 80 I’ll be writing about him for
@RadioTimes
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If you’re going to make me show I.D. before I vote make sure you have your passport with you before you come canvassing.
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50 years ago this summer all you needed was a copy of this and a Watney’s Party Four and you were king of the world. Thank you, Charlie.
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Farewell, Andre Previn. Thanks to Morecambe and Wise you were a household name – and the name was Andrew Preview.
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Journalists always returned happy from a Meat Loaf interview. An entertainer to his boots.
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I'll confess. It took me years to realise Sandie Shaw was a pun. Any similar pop star names gone over your head?
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You really couldn’t make up the 1972 Melody Maker readers poll.
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Every year at this time I’m reminded that some musicians hear “Fairytale Of New York” and think “all very well but I can improve it.”
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My proudest moment. Getting a good quote out of Charlie Watts in 1986.
"Work five years, and 20 years hanging around."
#OnThisDay
1941: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was born. In this 1986 clip, he took a look back at life so far with the veteran rockers.
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If this is what
@RealKenBruce
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I will be presenting my last show on Radio 2 next Friday. I had intended fulfilling my contract until the end of March but the BBC has decided it wants me to leave earlier. Let’s enjoy the week ahead!
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I own a few records. Thanks to streaming I can access millions more. Nonetheless, buggered if I can decide what music to type to this afternoon.
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Attempting to interest new grandchild in complete set of Little Feat bootlegs.
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40 years on from editing Smash Hits I’m keeping track of which of “my” bands have had jabs. Members of Ultravox, Pet Shop Boys, Altered Images already done.
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Alec Guinness as Smiley delivers the best performance in the history of telly without doing anything so vulgar as acting.
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Happy 80th birthday, Richard Starkey, one of the select few who have increased the sum of human happiness.
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Am I the only person made absurdly happy by seeing a Beatles picture for the first time?
The Beatles on the corner of Rupert Street and Brewer Street in 1963 - photo by Dežo Hoffmann.
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I repeat. Are there human beings on earth nowadays who can do this?
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Must be heartbreaking for these people to leave Downing Street just as their long-promised dawn is about to break.
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Through this door in the 70s Porky produced his prime cuts.
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Of all the toys wealthy rock stars could spend their money on Rod Stewart’s model railway is about the best.
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44 years ago today. Left reception in Morris Minor. Three-day honeymoon.
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Never get tired of watching Springsteen teach his band a song in front of 60,000 people. This ought to be the band leader's equivalent of the advanced driving test. via
@YouTube
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The funny thing about Live Aid is how old the old acts seemed. Like McCartney (43) and Freddie Mercury (38).
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Remember when instead of the internet we had this book? We'll be talking about it
@WIYElondon
podcast tomorrow. Any memories?
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Never get fed up of looking at legendary album cover pictures before they were cropped.
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Television’s “Marquee Moon” is playing in this Pret and I’ve just paid as much for tea and a biscuit as I paid for the album in 1977.
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There are not many memoirs of failed, pop careers, which are republished 25 years later. This is worth it.
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Sandy Denny photographed at home for Petticoat 50 years ago this month.
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Can’t think of many people who changed rock and roll more than
@wilkojohnson
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This is the announcement we never wanted to make, & we do so with a very heavy heart: Wilko Johnson has died. He passed away at home on Monday 21st November. Thank you for respecting the family's privacy at this very sad time. RIP Wilko Johnson.
(Image: Leif Laaksonen)
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Back in the 80s this would have made a Smash Hits Yearbook feature.
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When Bruce Springsteen played St James’s Park in June 1985 I watched from the directors’ box with the first team squad and Jack Charlton.
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Jack Good has died at 86. He probably won’t get much in the way of tribute. Never won a Grammy. He only invented music television.
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Not one for turning the clock back but a listings magazine on paper gave you a snapshot of possibilities which no online service can.
Absolutely this. From today’s Guardian feature on treasured things that have been discontinued. Surely there has to be a market for a digital-only Time Out with proper listings, circulated on Readly, Issuu etc
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"I was born like this, I had no choice, I was born with the gift of a golden voice." Leonard Cohen was funny, not miserable.
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Watching The World At War and thinking Laurence Olivier's narration may turn out to be his most lasting legacy.
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There’s the Rolling Stones boldly challenging gender stereotypes on the cover of my new book, which is out in September.
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When you’ve spent three months at home you’re reluctant to spoil things by going out now.
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It’s ‘shoo in’ not ‘shoe in’, he shouted into the void, in the hope some sub was listening.
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I asked our three grown-up children to vote to revoke Article 50 and they all did. Since this is the only time they’ve done what they were asked without arguing I’m now thinking miracles can happen.
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In April 1964 the Beatles recorded "A Hard Day's Night". In April 1966 they recorded "Tomorrow Never Knows". That’s about as long as we’ve been thinking about Covid.
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If VAR means fans can no longer enjoy that incandescent ten seconds of joy immediately following a goal, it's no use to anyone.
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Was there a handsomer couple than Albert Finney and Shirley Anne Field in "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"?
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Happy eightieth birthday to Randy Newman, my favourite musician to interview.
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Bill Withers was one of those musicians who appeared without obvious antecedents and departed leaving no successors.
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Richard Thompson’s 70 today. I’ve been listening to him since he was 18. In all those years he’s never let me down.
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How about a little fanfare? As Todd Rundgren would say.
We are delighted to announce that 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, will be released on Apple TV+ on May 21st, 2021.
The series is based on the book 1971 - Never A Dull Moment: Rock’s Golden Year by
@davidhepworth
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Daughter thinks I modelled for cover of best-seller.
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We were taken out of Europe by politicians who secretly thought we should stay. We’ll be kept out by politicians who secretly think we should re-join.
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