Kate Bush was on the World Service Monday evening, plugging her new album via The Strand arts programme.

Dig it here, kats & kittens: - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gz7q2

Announced this morning on his website - Time Together is his first CD in bloody ages. It's out in a couple of weeks. Starring Chuck Loeb, Gil Goldstein, Mark Egan, Charles Blenzig, Scott Petito, Veronica Nunn, Billy Kilson, Mike Manieri, David Spinozza, Romero Lubambo, Till Brönner and Eric Marienthal etc.

Yaaaaay!

Imagine my shock upon opening my copy of this month's Mojo magazine to find this recent picture of Kate Bush. Gosh, doesn't she look like deceased pop star Michael Jackson! What do other readers think?

John almost certainly had this tune in mind when he wrote The Ballad of John & Yoko. It's close. It's very close!

The Beatles even did a cover version for the BBC.

Crikey. You learn something every day, blah blah blah.

Hey readers - are there any other records that sound suspiciously similar? I think that the Led Zeppelin vs Spirit Stairway To Heaven has been done already on these pages. But it's that sort of thing we're after. What's that song that is a template for Like A Rolling Stone that is on the Nuggets albums? That'll do for starters.

“When he says such beautiful things like “it just wasn’t the time”, “I’m glad to be working anywhere” and “Whatever comes next is gravy” you can’t help but marvel at his indomitable spirit. Here he is – a small, slightly hunched over man who hand-stitches all of his own clothes and never had anything or anyone in his life worth hanging on to, and yet never gives up hope for his big break. Gordon Thomas may never have a hit record, but his impact on the world, small as it may be, will have changed lives forever. “You just can’t give up on a gift,” said Thomas. And audiences will never want to give up on him.”

© 2004 Laura Bell, The Bermuda Sun

With his own website and a fabulous new album on release, surely the world can now sit up and take notice of the incredible music of Gordon Thomas. This 92 year old Bermudan-born New Yorker deserves to be heard. Enjoy - music this good doesn’t come along every day.

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Short-term nostalgia ahoy! for Ellen & Hepworth...

BTW you gotta click on the covers to reveal the contents.

This is rather good. But what would Yoko have to say about it all?

Imagine-a-jump-john-lennon-vs.-van-halen by jackstanleywp

Any other recent mash-ups that readers wish to share?

It's hard to believe now that the BBC did not keep the original tapes of this. So here for posterity are cassette copies of one and-a-bit of the 4 songs performed. Sounding as if the taper held a microphone in front of the radio loudspeaker...sssshhh!

Are there any readers with some old cassettes that just might contain late '69 Peel shows? Anything taped in the first week of August 1969? Go on, check it out. Cash in the attic, etc.

Amidst all of the fuss surrounding the reissue of Band On The Run, I thought that I might draw your attention to a recent, um, shall we say unauthorised recording of the great man.

Do you not think that the typeface on the album sleeve might have been set in a more professional font? Really amateurish, if you ask me.

Courtesy of the Roger Waters Tours website. Recorded July 10th 2010.

To Know Him Is To Love Him (shome mishtake?)
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb
Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)

Dig!

I was wondering if we have ever had a thread on totally awful records?

Here's Nina Simone trouncing Jonathan King's greatest hit...

Someone please tell me there's a good reason why she's so off key.

However, Jo Stafford , in the guise of Darlene Edwards, really intended her version of Stayin' Alive to be a shocker.

C'mon readers! Post your favourite massacred melodies below! Otherwise, check out Kenny Everett's legendary Capital Radio broadcasts of The World's Worst. http://www.chronoglide.com/wwwshome.html