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May 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Rude Awakening

My mum had this uncle who was a real Jack the Lad, a real cad, he was Tony Soprano before there was ever any Sopranos, we are talking 60s, 70s, early 80s. A nightclub owner in Hastings who was more than that and up for it all. But I only really have one memory of […]
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January 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

 Poem: Get The Tapes!

There are stories about my mum’s uncle – that he was a cad, a Jack the Lad, someone even said he was Tony Soprano before there was Tony Soprano – they neglect to point out that not only was this before the Sopranos happened (we’re talking the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s) but that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Get The Tapes!, Kevin Bloody Wilson, Poem, Poem: Get The Tapes!, Rodney Rude ·

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December 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1703

Rodney Rude, Not Guilty (1988) I found not just this one record but a stack of Rodney Rude LPs. I remember buying them for 50c and $1. What for? Well, here’s how it went…you see my mum had an uncle who was dying of cancer. He died when I was about 10 or 11; it […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1988, Kevin Bloody Wilson, LP, Rodney Rude, Vinyl ·

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