Well, between them they’re more than 160 years old, true rock survivors … the rockers of ages. During Bob’s tour people have said his singing with passion and true invention … but he looks frail, moves gingerly and has taken to occassionally sitting on a stage bench. There’s very little good footage of his Rough… Continue reading Frail? Bob looks good in this happy birthday vid for Brian Wilson! (See vid inside!)
Author: Leigh Banks
I am a journalist, writer and broadcaster ... lately I've been concentrating on music, I spent many years as a music critic and a travel writer ... I gave up my last editorship a while ago and started concentrating on my blog. I was also asked to join AirTV International as a co host of a new show called Postcard ...
HOME FROM THE BLUES, MANGO MAN TOM – HIS STRANGE FRUIT, PUTIN AND RAW PASSION
Tom Wood is a strange brew … a fairly conservative type of man with a predilection for the heat of the desert. A wanderer in trades too. Tom is a showman, who a decade ago. took a gamble and moved to Vegas, yet had little interest in the Elvis look-alike culture, its plastic playground cities,… Continue reading HOME FROM THE BLUES, MANGO MAN TOM – HIS STRANGE FRUIT, PUTIN AND RAW PASSION
HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL US BEAUTIFUL LOSERS …
Read them and weep – then stand up and fight. Children are for life, not just for others, our boys and girls are not weapons of crass destruction for the bitter and twisted, children and exes are not there to be bullied … YOU failed in your commitment to a relationship, not YOUR son or… Continue reading HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL US BEAUTIFUL LOSERS …
THE HARMONICS OF LOVE BETWEEN A DAD AND HIS BOY
FOR FATHER’S DAY … AN IMAGINED TRIP ROUND DYLAN AND JAKOB, BY ERIC LASTICK DYLAN AND SON, JAKOB…LETTERS OF THE RED JACK PINES THIS FATHER’S DAY. IN FULL FAMILY ARTISAN… In a real wind whirl minded Dylan basement avenue of guitar awakenings; Dad lays down all his rhythms and yarns—- wishful a Father’s Day holiday… Continue reading THE HARMONICS OF LOVE BETWEEN A DAD AND HIS BOY
Brad Twit! Star’s inglourious lobby wait for Bob to finish song…
Once upon a time in Hollywood Brad Pitt decided to go and see his hero Bob Dylan… Wait! Yes, that’s what he had to do – because he turned up just too late. Brad is such a major Dylan fan that he has part of the lyric of “When The Deal Goes Down” tattooed on… Continue reading Brad Twit! Star’s inglourious lobby wait for Bob to finish song…
Sound and fashion… Bob steps out in battered boots, religious T-shirt and a Godfather homburg
Bob Dylan was photographed in another enigmatic ‘backstage’ outfit. And the only things missing were his leopard skin boots. His white Godfather-style Homburg was angled to look rakish and a little roguish, his white T-shirt emblazoned the message Godspeed to You across his skinny chest, black too-long baggy pants flapped like black crows around his… Continue reading Sound and fashion… Bob steps out in battered boots, religious T-shirt and a Godfather homburg
Keith’s final journey to gran’s house passed the street where evil Brady lived
Spare a thought for my lost brother, asks Alan Bennett Alan wrote: On this day, June 16th, in 1964, four days after Keith’s twelfth birthday, he was going to spend the night at our gran’s house… my mother was going to bingo and she walked with Keith to the zebra crossing at busy Stockport Road.… Continue reading Keith’s final journey to gran’s house passed the street where evil Brady lived
THE WRITES AND WRONGS OF SELLING YOUR GRANNY…
Does a writer have the right to write about their world gone wrong? A few days ago I wrote a short piece looking back at Like a Rolling Stone by the never-ending Bob Dylan. LRS is a song that changed the world … six minutes of angst, anger, vitriol and viciousness. Bob was a wild… Continue reading THE WRITES AND WRONGS OF SELLING YOUR GRANNY…
Keith Bennett could be retired and a grandpa today. He would be 70… but Brady and Hindley stole him away
Here his brother, Alan, talks succinctly and movingly about the horrifying tragedy that has blighted so many lives, just like his How a barber’s shop conversation about the loss of Keith helped lift brother’s battered spirits … They say that on the streets of Manchester you are never more than six feet away from a… Continue reading Keith Bennett could be retired and a grandpa today. He would be 70… but Brady and Hindley stole him away
IS BORIS FUELLING HIS CAR-CRASH RETURN BY A CLAMP ON FORECOURT SWINDLERS?
Average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts reached 185p Average price of diesel also reached 190.9p Filling up a family car hit £100 for first time in UK Do you know, Britain’s home fires are still burning – but in these, the cyber-technic Noughties, they are incandescent with shock, horror and fear.… Continue reading IS BORIS FUELLING HIS CAR-CRASH RETURN BY A CLAMP ON FORECOURT SWINDLERS?