Author: Leigh Banks

See video inside A Ukrainian mother-of-two played a moving farewell to her family home after it was blown apart by a Russian bomb.   Professional pianist Irina Maniukina brushed away rubble and from her grand just hours after a bomb landed 30 feet away in Bila Tserkva, south of Kyiv.  Then she closed the lid on the… Continue reading UKRAINE MUM’S DEFIANCE AS SHE PLAYED PIANO IN HER BOMBED-OUT HOME

Despite being 80, locked-down by Covid, cashing in his songs chips and despite facing despicable accusations from a ‘space-woman’… despite being beasted by an estate that should have crashed in the levy, offering up a new book and art collection, the Ol’ Man is on the road again. And facing the arrows of misfortune from… Continue reading Talkin’ Blues … glitter-chatty who wouldn’t shut up for Bob!

Sally Grossman, the wife of Dylan’s erstwhile manger, Albert, and the women who introduced him to his first wife, Sara, has died. She was 81 and famous for being the women in red on the iconic cover of Bringing it All Back Home album, Dylan’s halfway house between acoustic and electric. The photograph was taken… Continue reading JUST OVER A YEAR AGO … Sadness as Dylan’s lady in Red, Sally, finally ‘goes home’ aged 81

Eric Lastick is a strange man. He looks lived in, like an old rooming house knocked out and loaded from the inside. He’s spent his life inside this badly-built walk-on-stilts high-rise of rooms called things like Hope, Aspiration, Dream… … and still, today, he stares from his rain-melting ancient windows into glistening streets and memories.… Continue reading DYLAN, ROOMING HOUSES AND RAIN…

Only Fools and Horses actor Ron Pember has died aged 87. Ron’s grandson, Paul Pember, confirmed that the much-loved actor had died on Tuesday. He described him as a ‘gentleman’ Paul saif: “‘The sadness now is the happiness then. That’s the deal. 11.04.1934 – 08.03.2022 #ronpember #grandad.” He also played a big role of Alain… Continue reading Only Fools and Horse gentleman Ron dies, aged 87

1. Don’t get the name of a giant tortoise wrong – you’ll be banned! 2. Hate speech – be nice to everybody! 3.Don’t be too active – busy means the cyber ‘bizzies’ will visit! 4. Don’t hide behing a false name – you’ll be shamed! 5. Don’t tell lies – unlike social media! Should a… Continue reading FACEBOOK A DATE WITH DEATH, MR PUTIN

No, he didn’t close the book and not write any more… Bob Dylan is releasing his new book The Philosophy of Modern Song, It’s his first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One. And that was instrumental in winning him the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016. Dylan apparantly began working on The… Continue reading DYLAN BRINGS BACK PAGES ON HANK, NINA, ELVIS – THE PHILOSPHERS OF SONG

The Moscow Murderer sees Red while the rest of us see horror, despair, cruelty, lies and and man who one day will have to stand naked … PRESS-ING ON – BOB TAKES ON THE NEW MASTERS OF WAR as Putin kills THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society

Dylan protests about hell in Ukraine as the media again forgets what it was it wanted from him AS BOB TOURS AGAIN, WE LOOK AT HIS PERFORMANCES AND THE MAN-AND-WOMAN ON THE STREET REVIEWS … The second leg of Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour has been pressing on with lost love, growing old… Continue reading PRESS-ING ON – BOB TAKES ON THE NEW MASTERS OF WAR as Putin kills THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS

Just for the record, George Best, Richard and Judy, Tony Wilson – and Leigh came along too with with a gal who was definitely up to scratch A personal story as LA filmmaker Bob Mori releases yet another brilliant Bob Dylan video … inside The first time I heard Jokerman, I was a bit of… Continue reading We Infidels of the 80s – and a Dylan song that got away – UNTIL MR MORI ARRIVED!