Category: A’s Track of the Day

OK it’s got Trevor Lucas on lead vocals, but this 1973 cut recorded live in Croydon is an interesting snapshot of Fairport at the time.

‘Here’s one of my golden oldies’. Live version of the evergreen song from his eponymous 1984 album.

John Otway’s former sidekick plays slide guitar with an egg during a 2012 pub gig with the Sleeping Dogz. Willy is still with us at the age of 72.

Introduced by Tony Blackburn, Ronnie Lane on vocals for the Top of the Pops album section in 1971.

Recorded for German TV in 1976 – not the best performance but fascinating nonetheless. And here, in his first appearance on my side of A & M, is a young … Continue readingTim Hardin: The Lady Came From Baltimore

I used to drive through Cheetham Hill every day when I worked in Manchester. Often I would stop there for a curry on the way home.

Twenty-one years after Blonde on Blonde, his Bobness playing live with the Dead.

Live in Noo Joisey, 1982, the great man himself.

Following on from yesterday’s Harlesden plumber, here are the Freshies, led by Chris Sievey aka Frank Sidebottom. I never thought the Virgin checkout girls were particularly stunning, but perhaps this … Continue readingFreshies: I’m In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Check-out Desk

Time for a bit of punk silliness, I think.