...the RCA version of David Bowie's Low includes three bonus tracks tagged on at the end. The first of these tracks is called Some Are. It works so well as an album coda that I can't imagine Low without it.

in Eastleigh. Some residents none too happy about their 'hood having been renamed after perma-gurning skirt chaser.

Sigh, yet again, in my defence, may I say that when that photo was taken with Bo, I had just driven about 120 miles and those glasses are prescription ones.

There's Bragg Way in Barking, named after yer man Billy.

Rory Gallagher Corner in the middle of Dublin, God bless him.

Here is a thread on a Beatles site containing pictures of The Beatles with random women.

the publication on these august pages of Mr H's snap of Bruce Springsteen and his good self is urgently required, on pain of mass defections from the Facebook group. ("My scanner's playing up at the moment" is not an acceptable reply.)

A big where-are-they-now piece with 1,000 words each on all the kids in this picture:

Among the many wonderful things about this photograph, perhaps the most striking is that quite improbably he had the most normal surname in his class. (Well, that and Strand's incipient Mickey Mouse ears.)

1. "The first decade of the twenty first century" is one of those phrases that reminds me why I read The Word.

2. Bonus tracks: the 1998 re-release of the Elvis '68 Comeback album, entitled Memories, contained a previously unreleased recording of a song hitherto only known from the soundtrack to Live A Little, Love A Little: a rather funky, brief little obscurity called A Little Less Conversation. David Holmes liked it so much that he put it on the soundtrack of Ocean's Eleven in 2001. The song was remixed - basically to double its length - the following year and went to number one. For a certain generation, it's now one of Elvis Presley's best known songs. Go to Elvis' iTunes page and you'll find that it's the first song they mention.

My one rock star photo features a pre-haircut me comparing barnets with Led Zep frontman Robert Plant. Note that Percy is wearing sunglasses indoors.

The gentleman in the background is his then-A&R man from Fontana Records.

the Deluxe of The Who's "Live At Leeds" has a second disc with the whole of "Tommy" live from the same gig. Great stuff. And then there's... okay, most of them are crap.

And on the subject of streets named after famous people, Melbourne also has an Everage Street in Moonee Ponds, named after the legendary Barry Humphries creation.

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On Has some great mono versions - great album but not enhanced at all. Jeff Buckley's Grace - again good second disc but why did they tack on Forget Her at the end of the original. I still listen to the original even though I like the track.

... Young Americans was improved on the recent re-issue by it's additional tracks. I personally would have taken OFF Across The Universe which was on the original album. But, yes, it is a rarity for an original album to be improved with "bonus tracks".

Here's a street in Duluth:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1418/614728629_39fd375124.jpg?v=0

And wasn't there a lot of talk about lesbians this week?

Somewhere in my packing cases I have pictures of myself with Chuck D (yes, Matt) and Mother Theresa.......no, not together.

The old boy was a perfect gent. The old girl was quite terrifying. Hands the size of the shovel on a JCB. She politely asked me for my business card, which I did not have on me. Several weeks later she paid a visit to Hong Kong (where I lived at the time) and stayed with a bloke who had given her his business card. World's media camped outside his tiny flat for 3 days. Narrow escape for me...."Would the Saint and Nobel Laureate like a craft smoke and a quick viewing of Point Break starring Keanu Reeves?"

Pictures to follow.....

Dana, the Irish 70s popstress, has a street named after her. She met her husband in 1970 at the naming ceremony for Dana Place in Hilltown when a reception was held in his hotel. The things we know....

...I was reminded of the people who used to send birthday cards to Elsie Tanner, or flowers to Meg Richardson's funeral. The Wire escapes the 'it's made up' tag because 'it looks like a documentary'??

...The French Connection? Or Serpico?

Some would say that our use of Google etc is indeed changing our brains. See
Doidge's book "The Brain That Changes Itself" http://www.normandoidge.com/

Bought this last month, skimmed it, haven't got round to reading it ;-)