If you haven't visited the blog dedicated to Freddie Davies's autobiography Funny Bones , which I cowrote, here is a review of the...

The previous post was a bit convoluted so I am going to add something today which will, I hope, be clearer. In the meantime I have been rere...

After seeing the current version of the Spaniels in the BBC's Rock 'n' Roll America I resolved to find out a bit more about t...

Having mentioned Tony Palmer's pioneering 1970s series All You Need Is Love, a history of the many strands of popular music, in th...

Just watched Episode One of the new BBC 4 series Rock 'n' Roll America, which will be available on BBC iplayer for a month (for t...

Don't know how long it'll be there, but someone has recently uploaded The Johnny Vegas Television Show to youtube.

This is to alert readers to the fact that Russell Davies recently interviewed Ray Davies for his The Art of Artists series on Radio 2 a...

The 2001 Leiber and Stoller documentary which I mentioned in the post about Stand By Me is available on youtube, at least at the time of wr...

"And as he finally sashays into the darkness with the ghost of those long-ago-learnt Atkins moves, I salute him and return his thank...

I may as well give in and admit to myself that these entries on the 80s sitcom No Place Like Home, currently being repeated in the UK on the...

For those who may care about such things, the Drama Channel has just started repeating the fourth series of No Place Like Home - and by the ...

A recently broadcast documentary about the Dave Clark Five - it's currently available on BBC iplayer here, if you are resident in the UK...

In the last week or so I've been listening a lot to a recording made of a Joe Brown concert at the Liverpool Philharmonic. I think t...

I am still watching No Place Like Home (on the Drama Channel, if you are UK-based and have Freeview), and still trying to puzzle out precise...

The world will little note nor long remember my thoughts on the 80s sitcom No Place Like Home yet I feel compelled to record them. If y...

It's called "49ing" or "bridging" (the former alludes to The 49th Street Bridge Song aka Feelin' Groovy) and ...

[screengrab] I don't know whether they are connected but there are two Sam Cooke documentaries on BBC Radio 2 to commemorate the...

I have just listened to Hancock's Ashes, an Afternoon Drama written by Caroline and David Stafford which is currently Radio 4's P...

There is now a dedicated blog for Funny Bones, the autobiography of comedy legend Freddie Davies what I cowrote, but I can't resist ...

For those who don't yet know and would benefit from knowing, I bear the happy news that a DVD of extracts from the series Jake Thackr...

At last a chance to see Frankie Howerd's appearance on TW3 in full. If you have seen any of the documentaries about Howerd then, l...

I was sorry to hear about the death of Donald Sinden. I have two memories of him, one shared by the playwright Simon Gray. In An Unnatu...

This is another post which involves recycling, prompted by seeing that Matt the Cat's radio show on the Flamingos is currently availa...

 I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend the documentary Hermitage Revealed, which had its UK premiere at the Curzon Soho last night and i...

There is no pleasure sweeter than the awareness that one is in possession of a perfectly valid reason to recycle old blog posts. Especial...

Went to the V&A on Friday evening to see Steve Clark of dancing duo the Clark Brothers talk about his career in a presentation entitl...

Bit of an unexpected show, this. Terrible title: Sketchiform, or possibly Sketchyform or even Sketch-y-form, like there's some kind of W...

A few days ago I saw And I Ran With the Gang, a play about, and starring, Alan Longmuir of the Bay City Rollers. As plays go, it's h...

Doo wop fans might be relieved to know that a blog has now been created for the book Funny Bones: My Life in Comedy, so consider that destin...

Freddie Davies and Blackpool go way back - about sixty years, in fact - so he's delighted to be having a book signing at Waterstones ...

I have just added the following review of the Network DVD release of What a Crazy World to a well-known shopping website. It rehashes some i...

This is not a review of the film but simply a note to reassure anyone with doubts that the Network DVD release of What a Crazy World is inde...

The origins of Monty Python's Parrot Sketch have been well documented, but on the eve of the team's imminent reunion I think th...

 (headline on Sky News website) Two points as a follow-up to the previous post . I have found suggestions online that the singer of th...

The recent death of Gerry Goffin has been widely reported, and the importance of his contribution to popular music appropriately ackno...

Another videocap from the clip of What a Crazy World in the previous post, out in a month's time.  From left to right, Marty Wilde, D...

It looks as though the Network DVD of What a Crazy World has been delayed - the popular online shopping site where I ordered it now says ...

After the demise of my favourite record shop Cheapo a few years back (see here ), another blow: I learnt this morning that the cafe in my lo...

I happened to notice that Madd, the mango dessert  emporium which took over the former home of Cheapo Cheapo Records in Rupert Street, So...