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AN OLD MAN ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY SOME OF HIS PECULIAR BELIEFS

It seems that I have some rather odd ideas about God. All well and good, but I am not entirely clear why I should be writing them down, or why anyone else should be interested in reading them. However, here goes….

THE FIRST TIME I SAW ARTHUR BROWN

I attended Manchester University in 1967, and I was in the Drama Department. I was keen on Theatre but by then I was becoming even more entranced by rock’n’roll. The Student Union hosted regular gigs, and booked acts a long time in advance. This meant that we were able to see some fabulous bands, up-close […]

James Brown’s Encore

James Brown, ‘Soul Brother No 1’ and ‘The Hardest Working Man In Show Business’, is coming to the end of his four-hour concert. Behind him are ‘The Famous Flames’, a band so drilled and precise as to make the Band of the Coldstream Guards seem sloppy and under-rehearsed. Immaculate in their tuxedos, they punch out […]

SCIENTOLOGY – A SLIGHTLY REVISIONIST VIEW

It may come as something of a surprise that, about half a century ago, your friendly local song-writer was once a member of the sinister ‘mindbending’ cult of Scientology. I have ‘fessed up to this in various interviews, but I thought I would write something about the movement as seen from a slightly different viewpoint, […]

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