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by hamilton_square
Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
Topic: The Passing of Department Store TJ Hughes
Replies: 0
Views: 1384

The Passing of Department Store TJ Hughes

The Liverpool Echo reports ... TJ Hughes in years gone by as plan for flats given the greenlight " Proposals to transform Audley House on London Road have been approved " Department store TJ Hughes has sat at the heart of Liverpool's city centre for almost 100 years. Moving to its current ...
by hamilton_square
Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:09 am
Forum: Beatles' Forum
Topic: Rare images of early Cavern Club gigs found
Replies: 0
Views: 1405

Rare images of early Cavern Club gigs found

The BBC reports ... The Beatles: Rare images of early Cavern Club gigs found In the article write-up ... Historian Mark Lewisohn described them as "whippet-thin under-nourished lads" following their tour to Germany. The band, who were then aged between 18 and 20, had recently returned from...
by hamilton_square
Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:48 am
Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
Topic: Gretsch White Falcon expected to sell for £30K at auction
Replies: 1
Views: 1009

Gretsch White Falcon expected to sell for £30K at auction

From the BBC ... Foo Fighters guitar expected to fetch £30k at Wiltshire auction A guitar used by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at auction. Grohl played the Gretsch White Falcon guitar in the 1997 video for Monkey Wrench. It was originally owned by the band's rh...
by hamilton_square
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:34 pm
Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
Topic: Lern Yerself Scouse (and how to cook it)
Replies: 2
Views: 985

Re: Lern Yerself Scouse (and how to cook it)

Thank you for taking the time to comment - much appreciated. Like you I'm now living some 200 miles, as the crow flies, from Birkenhead and have been since 1986. Though, here in High Wycombe I'm a great deal closer to London than you are in Norwich. I must say, the way things have worked out, I glad...
by hamilton_square
Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:53 am
Forum: Liverpool Project: by Admin
Topic: Lern Yerself Scouse (and how to cook it)
Replies: 2
Views: 985

Lern Yerself Scouse (and how to cook it)

Lern Yerself Scouse courtesy of BBC Radio 4. An hour long audio presentation on the influences that have shaped the distinctive Liverpool accent, and how it's changing. How to cook Scouse | The 'National' Dish of Liverpool courtesy of You Tube. As some one, who as a boy, watched his mother cook cou...
by hamilton_square
Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:42 am
Forum: Beatles' Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2022
Replies: 1
Views: 963

Glastonbury 2022

Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022 Place: Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, England Sir Paul McCartney makes history as oldest solo headliner at Glastonbury Just make yourself comfortable and CLICK HERE to watch ‘Macca’ - with the help of some friends - perform a near 3-hour set to a sold-out crowd.
by hamilton_square
Sat Nov 28, 2020 7:46 pm
Forum: Groove Yard: by Admin
Topic: Fleetwood Mac In Concert 30/03/1970
Replies: 0
Views: 6013

Fleetwood Mac In Concert 30/03/1970

Part of In Concert 50 on BBC Radio 2, celebrating 50 amazing concerts from 50 years The date: Monday, 30th March 1970 The place: The Paris Theatre , Lower Regent Street, London Original BBC listing “John Peel’s In Concert” Click here to listen to Fleetwood Mac In Concert Peter Green is credited with...
by hamilton_square
Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:40 am
Forum: Groove Yard: by Admin
Topic: I’m Gonna’ Be (500 Miles) from Baker Street
Replies: 1
Views: 1750

I’m Gonna’ Be (500 Miles) from Baker Street

Screen captured from BBC Scotland; two hour-long documentaries featuring the distinctly Scots flavoured song-writing and performing talents of, first from the 1970s, the intensely private and ultimately tragic Gerry Rafferty . Followed from the 1980s by the Scottish-to-the-core identical twin brothe...
by hamilton_square
Sat May 16, 2020 5:49 pm
Forum: Beatles' Forum
Topic: Astrid Kirchherr dies aged 81
Replies: 1
Views: 2719

Astrid Kirchherr dies aged 81

"Astrid Kirchherr, the photographer whose shots of the Beatles helped turn them into icons, has died aged 81."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... es-aged-81
by hamilton_square
Fri May 15, 2020 5:53 pm
Forum: Groove Yard: by Admin
Topic: A Lockdown Discovery
Replies: 1
Views: 7793

A Lockdown Discovery

While here in the UK I vaguely remember June Millington more as a 1970s feminist songwriter than a hard rockin’ guitarist. I knew absolutely nothing of the all-girl group that she and her younger sister, Jean Millington, together with drummer Alice de Buhr, and a couple of friends, formed in 1965 wh...
by hamilton_square
Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:04 am
Forum: Iron Door Club Forum: by Geoff Hogarth
Topic: NOT TO BE MISSED
Replies: 4
Views: 5031

Re: NOT TO BE MISSED

Having watched the video from start to finish, what I didn’t previously fully appreciate was the depth of animosity that persisted for fifty years between Hutchinson and Gustafson. Even with Johnny Gustafson as close to the end as he was when the recording was made, I got the feeling he didn’t want ...
by hamilton_square
Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:36 pm
Forum: Iron Door Club Forum: by Geoff Hogarth
Topic: Coronavirus claims Cy Tucker
Replies: 1
Views: 2431

Coronavirus claims Cy Tucker

"Legendary [Liverpool] singer who performed with the Beatles dies after suffering coronavirus" https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/legendary-singer-who-performed-beatles-17971354 I daresay Cy Tucker would have played the Iron Door Club on numerous occasions as part of Earl...
by hamilton_square
Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:11 pm
Forum: Beatles' Forum
Topic: Hey Jude lyrics sell for £731,000
Replies: 0
Views: 3260

Hey Jude lyrics sell for £731,000

Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for The Beatles' song Hey Jude have sold at auction for £731,000 ($910,000). The anonymous buyer purchased the item for almost six times more than the £128,000 estimate. The lyrics sheet was among more than 250 items auctioned to mark 50 years since the Liverpool ...
by hamilton_square
Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:14 pm
Forum: Iron Door Club Forum: by Geoff Hogarth
Topic: A night with the Beatles at the 'Iron Door'
Replies: 5
Views: 3465

Re: A night with the Beatles at the 'Iron Door'

As remember it Geoff, the inhalers came out of the Evans Medical factory in Speke - they were asthma inhalers. The chemicals involved are known as beta-agonists which, if taken in sufficient quantities, will speed the heart-rate up to achieve the desired state of euphoria, which in turn will keep on...

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