Big shout to the guys at who owned Avenue Records in Chingford in 1973 for this beauty. Covers of Life on Mars, Alright Now *and* Albatross? All with a picture of a pretty lady getting out of a sports car on the front? Delighted to.
Finally started reading @rspyoung ’s Electric Eden last week, then found Constant Lambert’s Music Ho! - an attempt to show how, “the music of our generation is related to the social background of our time” - in a fairly well-preserved 1948 Penguin edition. For £1. Delighted just about covers it.
There’s been a @brookhousekitchen takeover at the Sunday @telegraph - @silvana.franco.food is writing about ways to get yr #coffee fix without drinking it and my #brianepstein and #thebeatles piece is on the front of the Arts section.
So perfectly on the nose it almost looks like a parody. And there’s some interesting editorial choices inside.
1. Excellent cover (there are no credits for anyone, anywhere, sadly)
2. Slade! Faces! Some other people!
3. “Just rewrite the biog details as if it’s actually Elvis telling us this stuff. No one will mind.”
4. Of course he’s here.
5. A double page spread on BS&T is a wild choice. I applaud it. Who doesn’t want to get the inside dope on trumpet and flugelhorn player, Lew Soloff?
I wrote about how an unsolicited “marketing” email I sent ended up with a discreetly brutal subtweet. And what it made me think. It’s on Ye Ol’ Substack now. Link in comments, etc.
I wrote about the highs and lows of trying to make a podcast for @spotify at @sxsw a decade ago with @willfhope over on ye ol’ Substack. Link in comments, etc.
I wrote about how a podcast idea ultimately led me to meeting the late, very great @billy_steinberg . Over on Ye Olde Substaque now: /pub/statesofindependence/p/the-days-i-met-billy-steinberg?r=4bh19&utm_medium=ios
I wrote about an unexpected sidenote to going booze free - and its impact on my listening habits - over on Ye Olde Substack.
/pub/statesofindependence/p/an-unexpected-return?r=4bh19&utm_medium=ios
