Congratulations #WillieNelson for best country album Grammy award ‘A Beautiful Time’
If I ever get old, I’ll still love the road
I’ll still love the way that it winds
When the last song’s been played
I’ll look back & say
I sure had a beautiful time 🧡☀️
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Dexys Midnight Runners, Dexys, Tanita Tikaram, Tim Burgess. ‘What’s She Like’ - a memoir by Helen O’Hara - available now! route-online.com
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I had Paul Gambaccini on just now / the chart today 1968. Absolutely crammed with great songs including ‘Walk Away Renee’. Short fanfare intro, just 8 bars of a fab verse & then bang into the brilliant chorus. Perfectly crafted 🧡
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Jr Walker & The All Stars 🌟 ‘How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You’ Such a great song & performance. There is a good live version on YouTube but the audience are so unresponsive they ruin it for me. So here’s the record. Enjoy! 💃🕺☀️
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Never ever thought I’d be in Viz! 💥
& I forgot to put this particular adventure in my memoir 👻 ‘Kevin, be careful’ 🤣
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Even a quick flick through the newly arrived @vizcomic has me hooting like a stupid owl.
Good to see @DexysOfficial and @oharaviolin on one of their adventures.
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Thanks everyone who suggested music! 🧡 They’ve helped me through a major cleaning session 😂 Any I haven’t listened to yet I’ll look forward to in the next round! 😀
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Morning all 
Any feel good/high energy songs/playlists gratefully received please! 
Spending the day cleaning my flat after a week of building works 
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Any feel good/high energy songs/playlists gratefully received please! Spending the day cleaning my flat after a week of building works youtu.be/9wJLMe2mLoE1
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Morning all ☀️ Any feel good/high energy songs/playlists gratefully received please! 🎶 Spending the day cleaning my flat after a week of building works 😷
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Happy 80th birthday Tony Blackburn! Loving Tony’s birthday show now on I grew up listening to Tony as a child and love his 60s & soul shows. Always great stories/humour. Respect to Tony, still broadcasting & sticking firmly with music he loves ✊🏻 🧡
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These winter gnats blew me away last night. Magical. Like fairies. #Winterwatch ❄️ is an hour of meditation🙏 #wintergnats
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Winter gnats are experts at finding the light 
And they put on quite a show as they swarm in a dance known as "lekking" 
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And they put on quite a show as they swarm in a dance known as "lekking"
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Fascinating podcast with record producer Rick Rubin. Lots of gems on life/music including a Neil Young & Crazy Horse session. Rick is also featured in this month’s
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This week’s guest is regarded as one of the all-time music greats. Named on Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World', he is none other than the legendary record producer, @RickRubin.
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My interview with is in the current issue of RnR magazine available to buy online or in the shops 🎻☀️
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Starting the day with ‘The Letter’ by The Box Tops. Short & sweet - under 2 minutes long. Enjoy! 🎶☀️
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Remembering Django Reinhardt, born on this day in 1910 in Belgium. Here he is with violinist Stéphane Grappelli and their band the Quintette du Hot Club de France performing "J'Attendrai" in 1938.
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My interview with is in the current issue of RnR magazine available to buy online or in the shops 🎻☀️
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Fascinating & entertaining lecture with a brilliant & mesmerising performance from Sean and Kati last night Looking forward to seeing more juggling from them with Akhenaten in March. 📷 from the Gandini website.
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"There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" Thank you for making this week of nights bearable. It's a wonderful book 👏👏
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A beautiful half hour remembering David Crosby. A gorgeous blend of voices, haunting solo singing & impeccable timing. If you feel the need of calm, this should do it. #DavidCrosby
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Fab interview with talking about her endearing book #WhatSheLike , she's as bouncy, optimistic and smiley as she was in her 20s - an enjoyable watch
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When I heard The Byrds as a child I fell in love with the songs & the jangly guitars but it was the harmony voices I was especially drawn to. And so it continued. RIP David Crosby 🧡 #DavidCrosby
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14 books on the #PenderynPrize2023 longlist. Announced today. Prize awarded at the Laugharne Weekend in March. For more info go here: penderynprize.com
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HUGE congratulations to announced on the long-list for this year’s - such a fabulous read from such a lovely person! A real Louder highlight! ❤️❤️
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Wonderful news! Delighted to be included in the list 😄
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Huge congratualtions to @oharaviolin. Her memoir #WhatsSheLike is on the long list for the Penderyn Music Book Prize (It's the Booker Prize equivalent for music books.) Wonderful news. route-online.com/whats-she-like
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Did you know that every time you borrow a book from the library the author, and illustrator if there is one, get 30p? For most paperbacks and many hardbacks that’s almost as much as if you’d bought it at full price. And more than if you’d bought it at discount from you know who.
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Also - I was very happy to see so many women playing in the brilliant ABBA live band.
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25 years ago a friend working in tv/film said in the future we’d be watching bands as holograms. Digital avatars/ holograms - whatever I saw last night was quite incredible. Great band and visuals and of course, ABBA! #AbbaVoyage 💃🕺💥
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Thank you Helen for writing What's She Like. Don't Stand Me Down is the best record ever made in my opinion. When I bought your book i'd no idea it would focus so much on that masterpiece xx
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A friend recommended The Voids by Ryan O’Connor. It’s excellent. I finished reading it a while ago & it’s still haunting me. These quotes ⬇️ describe it well. #TheVoids
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This is wonderful 🧡
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talks music and first guitar (excerpt) 2013. #RIP legend youtu.be/8vkvoQ2gzuQ
talks music and first guitar (excerpt) 2013. #RIP legend youtu.be/8vkvoQ2gzuQ
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Great start to my day. I’ve just met this beauty, Jip, a Harris’s hawk.
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My Resolution No.1 - Read more books.
So I have just finished this lovely volume by .
What can I say? It was engaging, entertaining, really well written and very funny 🤣
No trouble recommending it to any music fan not just fans 👍
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🙌🏼 ☀️Always nervous beginning a new album but producer Andy Monaghan of is making it great fun & inspiring 🙌🏼🎶 Today we began working on arrangements for my new songs ☀️V excited 😊 #singersongwriter #london 👏🏽🎶❤️
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Happy birthday Rod Stewart. Here’s a gorgeous live version of ‘Mandolin Wind’ with Rod on banjo. #RodStewart #MandolinWind
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I played this song 3 times yesterday. I thought there was something very beautiful about it. I’ve now read what the song is about 🧡 (see article). Good luck to John Lydon & Public Image Ltd.
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Always a joy to see Hazel catkins in January.
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The Stones may have laid the foundations for me as a young child but seeing David Bowie at the Bristol Locarno when I was a teenager started the ball rolling 🙏 Remembering #DavidBowie botd
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