The Editor's Letter - except it's not a letter
Posted by David Hepworth on 14 February 2008 - 3:33pm.
Mark Ellen shrugs off his mantle of shyness and walks you through the 5th birthday edition of Word on your desktop. If you haven't subscribed already, you can do so here. If, after watching the clip, you can solve the puzzle send your answer to Fraser and we'll pluck the winner from the editorial hat after the weekend.
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You heartless swines.
You realise, now that I've taken out a sub, that the only treat to which I could look forward every fourth-ish Saturday, namely, the picking up of my copy of Word from Sainsbo's, has now disappeared.
I didn't realise this when I took out the sub. No words of warning adorned the webpage, no alerting text message was received. I failed to spot the awful implications a Word sub would have for my food shopping routine.
You have ensured that a mere month from now, my pantry will rapidly begin to shrink to a shadow of its former self, and once again, as in distant times past, I shall be forced to exist on dried pasta with a drizzling of Tomato ketchup. If I'm lucky.
At least I'll lose weight while I'm reading, and my pile of old Words will in future be parmesan dust and olive-oil stain free.
Uh oh...
What he said was "...and ANYONE who writes in...". No mention of 'a winner' I am currently instructing my representatives Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel...
could it be?
I sincerely hope the answer does not involve Des O'Connor.
And...
...there's a Top Gun CD on Seventies Mike's desk. Even more alarming.
OK - what's the answer, then?
It's way past the weekend now, and I'm dying to know which album you are referring to. All I can see is a bit of the Sgt Pepper inner sleeve, but that can't be it. Please tell me what (and where) the cover is
The fabulous Bonzo Dod Doo-Dah Band
Heard Mark introduce an article 'Can blue men sing the whites'. To give it it's full quote Viv Stanshall style, 'Can blue men sing the whites, or are they hipocrites'. Marvellous.
I do remember back in the 60s/70s, the endless debates in Melody Maker whether white men can sing the blues along with other regular questions like, how do I toughen up my fingers so the guitar doesn't hurt them. To which the most consistent answer was pee on them which as I had done on many occasions accidentally, I suddenly felt a lot better about.
Great mag. Here's to 5 years on when we will probably be debating the same old questions to which there are no definitive answers making music the fantastic thing it is.