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Aye. Will always love tha
Posted by Brookster on 26 July 2011 - 10:05am.
In probably the most surprising news of the day, it turns out Dolly Parton is house-hunting in Rotherham.
This could be utter rubbish of course, but it conjures up a vision of a South Yorkshire Stella Street, where you're brushing shoulders with Dolly Parton, The Chuckle Brothers, Paul Shane and various members of Saxon.
Are there other members of the music establishment who've ended up in unexpected places? I know that PJ Proby ended up living in a terraced house in Bolton.
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Saxon
are from Barnsley.
It's a different accent.
But I'm sure one of the podcasts has already covered this. Champion Jack Dupree ended up in Halfax, for example.
I think you're right
But the author of Rotherham's Wikipedia page is laying claim to Saxon. I'd update the page but life's too short.
I'd love to listen to that Podcast...
...can you remember roughly how long ago it was. I'm a recent convert to Word podcasts so if there are any you'd particularly recommend I'd be really pleased to hear about them.
T'was
Podcast #57, from June 2008.
These we have loved (a few of my personal favourite podcasts)
#118 - all about swearing
#112 - the smell of record shops
#115 - Danny Baker
#121 - Phil Smee
#143 - Robin Ince
#168 - Nick Lowe
#172 - The Bobcast
#174 - Danny Baker
#177 - Peter Doggett
Thank-you
That should keep me going for a while. I've listened to the Peter Doggett one - which inspired me to buy the book. I'm currently listening to the Latitude one with Robin Ince that I'm enjoying so another one with him will be good.
I'm pretty sure that
Podcast #143 features the legendary Peel-off where Robin Ince and Mark Ellen go head to head their John Peel impersonations.
I always like
the fact that in the early seventies Lou Reed & Oliver Reed both lived here in Wimbledon. Imagine Lou walking into Ollie's favourite pub...
*Double post*
Ted Hawkins......
older Massivistas may remember this Andy Kershaw fave from 80s / 90s, a sort of last century Seasick Steve, Mississipi born troubadour. I'm pretty sure he lived in Bridlington for a while
The same Bridlington of which I once heard said "You don't swim in the sea, you just go through the motions"
So Musically Speaking
you could be 'caught between two stools?'
Dolly Parton
Story goes that Dolly was doing her bit to promote her books for children in Rotherham.She did her spiel about having come from a poor background and the whole Coat Of Many Colours thing. Up comes a voice from the back "You were lucky!"
"You were lucky!"
Excellent Ralph, laughing my tits off.
Can you recomend anything to get coffee out of my keyboard ?
Coffee in keyboard
Yes! A straw!
Just stick it in the dishwasher
then stand it 'keytops down' on a towel and allow to drain overnight. Always worked a treat for me.
(NOTE: This isn't recommended for laptop keyboards)
,,,Francis Rossi of Status Quo...
...once had a pied a terre just beside Ballymun, the high-rise estate in Dublin that is always represented with kids on horses and has featured in the Commitments and Into the West among other films. I grew up there and some lads I know were in a heavily Status Quo influenced band, although they did covers such as The Cure's A Forest Quo-stylee, around '82 or '83. Cue much excitement when Francis Rossi was found to have a place just down the road, Pinewood I think, actually quite close to where Bono grew up. Apparently Mr. Rossi was very friendly to any Quo fans who turned up hoping to meet him. There were many in those days. I know of one person who used to throw their dog into the garden and get his attention by shouting at it to get out. There were many musicians who spent time in Dublin in those days to benefit from the tax breaks for "artists", e.g. Spandau Ballet, the Cure and Def Leppard who never left. Most seemed to gravitate towards the "West-Brit", areas of South Dublin rather than the unglamorous Dublin 11 chosen by Mr. Rossi. Maybe he was "keeping it real".
I recall reading a Bon Jovi
I recall reading a Bon Jovi interview where he said he lived in Wandsworth, if only for a short while, but he said he enjoyed it there. Not someone I'd expect to see strolling down the High Street.
Also, in one of Nick Kent's books, when Iggy and his Stooges first visited the UK in the early seventies they resided in a house in Barons Court, now a gentrified area with its own delicatessen but in those days, oh boy what a dump. Can you imagine.
Danny La Rue
Had a bungalow next door but one to my aunt and uncle.
In Southampton.
Was there not a famous soul singer
Who ended up in somewhere distinctly unglamorous like Batley (sorry Batley)?
I want to say Edwin Starr but I may be wrong. I'm sure it's been discussed on these pages at length before...
Don't know, but Marvin Gaye spent a year in Ostend
which always seemed incongruous. Judging from a TV documentary a few years back, it seems to have been one of the happy parts of his life - there were scenes of him playing darts in the local bar.
He did
For tax reasons I believe.
Lummee
He played darts for tax reasons? No wonder all darts players are so fat, all that spare dosh!
The great Edwin Starr
a.k.a.Charles Hatcher lived just outside Tamworth in the village of Polesworth (known locally then as Soulsworth).
Edwin Starr
In a castle in fact. I'm not actually sure who he was/is but it's inevitably pointed out on walks nearby.
Not sure who that was but, given the draw of
Batley Variety Club for 60s acts during the 1970s, it wouldn't particularly surprise me.
Robert Palmer was, of course, from Batley but I'm not aware that he kept a place there, unaccountably finding Nassau and Milan more appealing.
There was persistent rumour
when I was a young'un, that Roger Moore kept a flat in this block overlooking the Menai Straits.
I can't remember whose book
I can't remember whose book I read it in, but he also lived in Broughton, Salford.
PJ Proby was married at Bury register office whilst Nico lived down the road in Prestwich.
Am I correct in recalling...
...that Scott Walker spent (and maybe still spends) some time in the sinkhole that is Vauxhall (I work there, so I know of what I speak!).
Scott in Vauxhall
Indeed he did. I used to see him in Sainsburys on the Wandsworth Road, slapping the meat.
August Darnell
AKA Kid Creole lived for a number of years in Dinnington, a small ex mining town in South Yorkshire.
Vic Reeves
His Grandfather (may have been his great grandfather) was gamekeeper at Dinnington Hall.
Yes, and I do believe....
Luther Vandross lived in Peterborough for a while as well....
.
.
His Bobness lived in...
... Crouch End for a while.
Going back to the OP
I think the story was based on the recent R4 documentary, which looked at Dolly Parton's free books for children scheme. She made a quip about getting a flat in Rotherham, which she thought would be a good place to get away from it all.
The books scheme was very admirable. I hadn't realised how poor her upbringing was--most members of her family were illiterate.