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February 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Beatles Theory

A lot of people seem to think that Paul McCartney and John Lennon hated each other – were competitive, and the band broke up, and that Yoko was a pesky nuisance as well.  The Yoko thing? That’s mostly racism. And sexism too. Paul and John are on the record as having had a bit of […]

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November 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 358

George Harrison, Somewhere In England (1981) I’ve been a George Harrison fan since I could remember his name…which is to say one of my first memories is asking my dad and my uncle what “the other guy in The Beatles was called?” I knew the two main songwriters and the drummer – their names stuck. […]

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September 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #144 – Jason Alexander’s Comedy Spectacular, Wellington, 2009

That’s how it was billed – it was Jason Alexander aka ‘George’ from Seinfeld and he did this boring MC-bit with what passed for jokes I guess; clearly written for him. And then there was some music or something and fuckin’ Dai Henwood was part of it and it ended with Jason Alexander-basically-as-George answering questions […]