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Sax Appeal
Posted by Riccardo Gargiulo on 3 February 2009 - 7:46am.
Radio 4's News Briefing this morning tells me that the Saxophone made it's first public appearance in an orchestra on this day in 1844.
Let us celebrate with a repost of the video of ptentially it's finest hour in the hands of The Word's very own the mighty Mark Ellen
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Douglas Dunn
Then it seems to be the right time for an extract from Douglas Dunn's 'Address to Adolphe Sax in Heaven' (find the whole thing in the collection Northlight)
Would this
be the same Mark Ellen who was savaged by Alvin Stardust on 'Today' this morning?
Link for the puzzled:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7866000/7866685.stm
Young reporter
Starts about 2:24.30
To Mark Ellen - "you are slightly out of your depth..."
So no Alvin Stardust on the cover then.
Would this
be the same Alvin Stardust who I heard on Radio 2 today saying that John Lennon “felt OK wearing glasses onstage because he thought Buddy Holly looked cool”. John Lennon never wore glasses onstage. He did though, before his granny glasses phase, wear prescription shades a lot of the time. Just like Roy Orbison.
Lennon, glasses, onstage...
http://beatles.ncf.ca/live_peace_in_toronto_p1.html
If they do....
put him on the cover maybe 'young reporter' Mark Ellen could interview him?!