George Harrison’s houses
It all started for George Harrison at No. 12 Arnold Grove in Liverpool, in 1943. He lived here until the age of 5 with his parents and three older siblings.
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The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” turns 50
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Back in 1985 when I was in my last year at boarding school and filled with the usual teen anxieties, one of my greatest fears was that the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” would pass without appropriate recognition.
Read moreOzzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons
Most days I wake up about 10 a.m., and it soon dawns on me that I have nothing to do until bedtime. Such are the perils of enforced early retirement.
Read moreLally Stott: Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep
Lally Stott would have been 75 in 2020. “Who’s Lally Stott?” you ask. Harold “Lally” Stott was an English singer/songwriter whose best-known creation vied with “Maggie May,” “My Sweet Lord” and “Brown Sugar” as one of the biggest songs of 1971.
Read moreThe outback pub in David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” video
David Bowie ventured to the Australian outback in 1983 to shoot the video for his biggest hit single, Let’s Dance
The Beatles in New Zealand, 1964
I came across the B&W photos at the National Library of New Zealand.
NOTE: My book Strange Days: The Adventures of a Grumpy Rock ‘n’ Roll Journalist in Los Angeles is available here
The Rolling Stones in New Zealand, 1965 + 1966
I came across these photos at the National Library of New Zealand. For more about the Rolling Stones and me, click here.
Read moreRay Charles
To date the only fresh corpse I’ve seen in real life, appropriately for my job as a showbiz reporter, belonged to a celebrity: Ray Charles.
Read moreAwards shows – please kill me!
Covering awards shows like the Grammys and Oscars made me grumpy. They allow rich and famous people to become even more rich and famous, and I was part of the problem.
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