Is Misery Bear's life like yours?

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All this talk of the Hollies puts me in mind of another group beloved by me for their harmonies but which you don't hear much talk of at all these days: Marmalade.

Not really taken seriously as a result of their cover of the Beatles nursery rhyme Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da (thought it's better than the original in my book), there's so much more to them than that, and though they were hardly prolific when compared to the Hollies, their hits remain long-forgotten when they're proper gems.

Do they deserve their place in rock's dumper or is it time for a rethink? After all their pop-psych nugget I See The Rain was Jimi Hendrix's favourite song of 1967, and their folky Rainbow a corker, especially when coupled with this video (what isn't that woman wearing?). And what about their glam foray Radancer or country rockin' Cousin Norman? Was there nothing they couldn't turn their hand to?

Your thoughts appreciated. Let's spread the love.

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Any member of the Massive care to own up?

Coming a couple of week's time, actor Stephen Mangan is taught how to play Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Richard Thompson in the programme First Love on Sky Arts.

End of announcement.

Has anyone seen The Iron Lady yet?

What did you think?

While Meryl Streep uncannily channels Maggie and will no doubt rightly win tons of awards for it, I thought the film was bizarre.

The jumping backwards and forwards in time, the ever-present ghost of Dennis, her strange twilight world they've got her living in, which may or may not be pure fantasy and the skewed timeline of events all made for a strange beast indeed.

There was little politics, a scant amount about what drove her and what sort of person she really was, and no proper explanations of why she did some of the things she did. The whole thing whipping through time made Downton Abbey look like Mad Men. I know a story has to be told in two hours, but really.

What I found most odd, however was the fact that they've made this while she's still alive. It's the sort of film usually made after someone has died. I thought the dementia bits were frankly in rather poor taste.

What are your thoughts?

One of two choices:

Cannonball by Damien Rice

or

I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses

Expect internet fury.

I've noticed a lot lately, that instead of giving you a wave of thanks when you let someone go in front of you, people flash their hazards instead.

When did this start? I notice it more and more each day. Surely it's harder to do that than to just give someone a quick wave?

Anyway, I don't like it.

Teenage Kicks, Pictures Of Lily, Turning Japanese - reputedly about cracking one off.

I know there are more but I can't think of them....

Can anyone help? I'm having major problems with PC.

Every time I put it on it tells me there not enough memory so starts adding more. But this EVERY time I put on the PC. It seems to have started after I installed a Trend internet protection thing. I've deleted about 1500 songs from itunes (though still have about 19,000) I've cleared disk space etc, but it's still doing it.

When I open itunes it's telling me there's not enough memory left to store stuff.

What is going on?

Also, why do itunes updates no longer 'come from within'? Whenever there is one it opens a window in Safari and gets me download itunes like it's the first time I'm installing it.

I may need to call in a pro, but in the meantime, I know you're all quite good at this, so any steers greatly appreciated.

That's right, Neighbours was first shown on BBC 1 as part of its new-look daytime line-up.

Being a student at the time, I remember it well. I became hooked on Neighbours, almost obsessed by it. Then again, so did everyone else. It was all the rage. The amount of lectures we skipped so we could go back to someone's house and watch it.

I once had a dream I was married to Plain Jane Superbrain.

Those were the days, eh?

They were, weren't they?

So it's all going to court. Morrissey intent on clearing himself of racism allegations.

So who do you reckon will win this David v Goliath contest?

Whose side are you on?

They've all got the Gadaffi corpse on the front today, with the Sun's crass, juvenile 'That's for Lockerbie' headline leading the pack in ghastliness.

I'm glad he's dead, but I don't want to see a picture of his bloodied and battered - and dead - body. I don't want to see pictures of any real-life dead body.

Do you?

wait until you see his new sitcom.

It's called Life's Too Short and it's about a dwarf (Warwick Davis) who needs work, but really it's nothing more than an invitation to mock the small man and is a series of dwarf jokes - as in jokes about dwaves. I found it really uncomfortable, and I'm far from the world's most PC man.

He's currently in a lot of trouble with his 'mong' comments, a horrible word which really isn't acceptable to use. I wonder if this time he won't be able to hide behind his veil of irony or intellecutalise his way out of this one, though he's trying. Very hard indeed. It's not good pre-publicity for his new show.

The debate rages. What do you think?

These 'Occupy' protests; what are we expecting to happen as a result of them?

Will they change anything?

I wonder how much longer those tents will last outside St Pauls? It's going to get pretty chilly soon. Still, that tented anti-war village opposite the Houses of Parliament was there for yonks.

And still the war rages on.

Has anyone seen the Scorcese George Harrsion doc Living In The Material World yet?

It's an excellent portrait of this most mysterious of Beatles. And it's warts and all - as far as I know, right down to Eric Clapton discussing nicking Patti Boyd off him. She's in it too.

Watching it, I wondered what a world in which the Beatles never existed would be like. They touched everyone and everything in their heyday, it's just amazing. Their ideas, the things they did, the people they met, the lives they led. It's inconceivable a rock star's life could be as exciting as theirs was ever again.

It's also inconceivable that anyone could be so original again either. Name me one band today who's doing something totally new?

Anyway, I highly recommend it. Out now on DVD.