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January 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: …like a faded photograph…

i left my faded Kodak childhood just beyond my reach some of it is probably scattered in traces around Clifton Beach i’m glad I left it, then decided, to let it be. it always belonged to someone else it never belong to me
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged ...like a faded photograph..., Clifton Beach, Kodak, Photo, Photograph, Photography, Poem, Poem: ...like a faded photograph ·

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June 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1100

Charlie Rich, Classic Rich (1978) You’re allowed to not like Charlie Rich when your memory of it, of him, is hearing Every Time You Touch Me and The Most Beautiful Girl and you’re mosquito bitten and sunburnt, wriggling about in a tent trying to sleep while the drunk adults spill booze from plastic cups at […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1978, A Woman Left Lonely, Charlie Rich, Classic Rich, Clifton Beach, Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High), LP, Since I Fell For You, The Most Beautiful Girl, Vinyl ·

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May 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1133

Kenny Rogers, Ten Years of Gold (1977) Kenny Rogers was the sound of summer in Hawke’s Bay in the late 1970s and early 1980s – or rather, I should say, it was the sound of my summer, a crucial part of the summer soundtrack. I had no say in it by the way. My father […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1977, Clifton Beach, Kenny, Kenny Rogers, LP, Lucille, Tape, Ten Years of Gold, Vinyl ·

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