First off I hope you had a merry Christmas....or should I say a merry Holiday....we must be
politically correct in case we offend the dimwits who come up with these ideas....if this drivel
had any effect...which it doesn't....Slade will have to remake their Christmas song.....so here
it is Merry Holiday....doesn't quite have the same ring somehow.....and old Bing could be in
serious trouble with the word "White" in his wonderful song....
I enjoyed the link you sent me with the Jet Harris interview.....I didn't know he was the first to
use a Fender electric bass guitar....good stuff...I met Jet when I was working on Radio
Merseyside....and we had a few pints in the local ....before he went tee total....and chatted
about his adventures with The Shadows and I got some interesting inside info... he really
was a nice fella and like most of those who have been there he was very humble.....a sad
loss.
I watched a programme on ABBA....it's hard to believe how good they were....I can't
remember them making a bad record....and they made most of them in several
languages....and I also watched the 2017 E.L.O. concert in Wembley arena.....mind
blowing.....I know you are a big Beatles fan mate....you can have 'em......no
comparison......and needless to say we have none stop Christmas records on various
channels on the telly....I can't REALLY complain because back in the day I wrote a
Christmas musical for Radio City which contained six Christmas songs....I wrote the script
and all the songs and it was broadcast on Christmas Day.......the two members of the station
involved changed the names of the two main characters which they felt gave them the right
to regard themselves as the writers.....but that's another story..
recently came across a magazine article about my chance meeting with wrestler Adrian
Street which led to me writing and producing two albums of wrestling songs for him.....which
involved me going to The States and appearing on TV with him....we became great friends
and are still in touch.....the albums have recently been re-released by an American company
and can be downloaded from the internet....the songs keep coming back to haunt me...with
titles like "Violence is Golden"..."Merchant of Menace" and "I'm In Love With Me"...it is hardly
surprising.....I could write a book on my adventures we had in Florida but no-one would
believe it.
So this week I would like to feature a song which I was told by a major label that the world
would never be ready for....they were NOT impressed......it was one I composed for Adrian
Street which he used to enter the ring to.....it ended up in a movie called "Grunt-The
Wrestling Movie" and also on MTV in the States.....so the song which the world would never
be ready for paid off my mortgage......it is entitled "Imagine What I Could Do To You"
