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792683845 fbtai S Do you yearn for the good life?Talk about ‘How Times Flies’

It’s hard to believe that it is thirty five years ago since the first appearance of one of the most popular programmes on TV.

In those days it was a compulsive watch as we were

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Lost Nights on the Dance Floors of Europe…

As a fan of rock and guitar orientated music, my heart sank when I received a request to review this album. Unless I can hear the sound of guitars, the dance floors of Europe will remain safe from my robotic manoeuvres. Only my younger Brother has witnessed what I am truly capable of and we both agree, the robotic beast must remain caged.

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Jim Reeves The Anthology DVD

When it comes to longevity in music there are certainly a few in the world of country.
Hank Williams, and Patsy Cline are two that spring to mind but I would bet if you were to do a spot check on the street apart from Johnny Cash I’m sure the next one to be

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The Real Story Of The Clash Passion is a Fashion

The Real Story Of The Clash – Passion is a Fashion

One of my greatest passions has always been music. I have always been eclectic in taste and over the years have met some of its greatest contributors.

Never thinking as a teenager that I would ever meet meet with heroes of the musical world when I was growing up (The Crickets) I can now proudly relate that one of the founder members Sonny Curtis has become a friend. Apart from writing many hit songs

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Living Dinosaurs

If you’re a budding photographer and also have a great interest in wildlife, then a brand new publication by an expert in both fields could keep you fascinated for hours.
Heather Angel is a British biologist and award-winning wildlife photographer who travel from the poles to the tropics taking wildlife images, although in recent years she has concentrated on China.Her passion for nature culminated in a zoology degree at Bristol University.Whilst working as a marine biologist she became hooked on photography and had her

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Joe Brown at the Sage Gateshead

If you’ve been in the music business for forty two years and you’re still making records and can still fill auditoriums, concert halls, and theatres then I reckon you must have got something right. One artist who can certainly fit the bill is perhaps an artist who is not normally not associated with country music.

Known as the ‘cheeky cockney’ Joe Brown has from the early days of his career always delivered the goods in no matter was genre of

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Archive Interview with Johnny Cash

He was known for his deep baritone voice, his dress code and the fact that he added a ‘boom chicka boom chicka’ sound to the musical world. There cannot be many people around the world who have never heard the name of Johnny Cash.

Cash was one of the most influential singer/songwriters of the twentieth century and albeit that his music crossed many boundaries he was known as one of the greatest country artists of all time.

His wife of thirty five years June Carter

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Loving Gazza

476103300 NqbNf M Loving GazzaAs a working journalist for many years I was probably one of the first to take pictures of a then virtually unknown Paul Gascoigne as he leaned out of a Mercedes car window.

He was making a name for himself at Newcastle United and it was probably the first thrilling promotional ‘freebie’ he had been given. Gazza was a warm, friendly and likeable Geordie lad, who in his innocence asked

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