The elections have been filling the news....the only thing of any note was the member of
the Raving Looney Party who was lined up with the other participants at the Hartlepool
results coverage....he was hilarious....didn't get many votes but he was so funny....If I
lived there he would definitely have got my vote....this is what we need in the world....it's
like the Eurovision when a plonker jumps up out of the crowd and joints in with the band
before the security frog march him off the stage....always good to watch.....I remember
The Rolling Stones many years ago doing a concert and some idiot came running on the
stage from the side and Keith Richard unstrapped his guitar and hit the bloke with it
which sent him straight into the crowd at full speed...after which Keith commented saying
he didn't know whether he was a friend or foe and wasn't prepared to take the
chance....priceless.
Strawberry Field in Liverpool where...and I quote..."John Lennon used to climb over the
wall and play as a child and eventually wrote his famous song about it"......well now you
can obtain a limited edition BRICK from the building for....wait for it....75 pounds......is it
me or is the world going nuts.....it will be interesting to see how many customers they get
from America and how they intend to post it.....I have recently posted some orders for my
DVDs.....postage 4 pounds EACH.....so how much a house brick will cost doesn't bear
thinking about.
As I have said before there is nothing more annoying than a radio DJ making a negative
comment about a record....if they don't like it don't play it....stupid comments cost
sales....and even worse joining in with a record while it's being played....recently Steve
Wright played "Every Time You Go Away You Take A Piece of Me With You"....he said at
the start of the record that he used to sing "you take a piece of MEAT with you".....then
joined in on the record saying that on every chorus which wasn't funny once let alone
five or six times.....records cost a lot of money to make and fans of the artists don't want
to hear an unfunny DJ ruining the song.
I went to Wales last week and spent some time in Anglesey.....it was a beautiful day and I
went to a place called Brynsiencyn which is on the Menai Strait side of the island.....the
Strait was like a mirror and I found a speck and looked across to Caernarfon with it's
wonderful castle with the Snowdon range in the background....and I was the only one
there.....you can certainly feed your soul in that part of the world.....speaking of which I
watched a programme featuring Julia Bradbury visiting Australia's Great Barrier
Reef....magnificently filmed and presented....so it can be done ...so let's have more of
this and less boring chat shows and cookery programmes.
The song this week is from one of my albums entitled "DooWop Days" which can be
obtained from my website and can be streamed from the internet.....the song is a tribute
to a pop star who is sadly no longer with us....Bobby Vee........I had the pleasure of
opening his show on two occasions and he was the nicest guy you could possibly
meet....we hit it off straight away and he was a delight....so here it is "The Bobby Vee
Song"
