Retired chess grandmaster, cricket gambler, author, songwriter, music producer. Often follows back.A paradox is always a paradox, especially when it's not.

Joined December 2020
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Steve Tranter’s song off the album When I’m Ninety Four, Buried Emotions, has just gone past 1000 streams on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/0KlhD…
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A GM Jon landmark was passed today. The first song to go past 10,000 streams on Spotify...Tara Turner's version of Rudyard Kiplings's Song of the Machines.
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Elon Musk could give every man, woman and child in England £10,000 and still be very rich. Go on Elon. You know you want to...
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One from the back catalogue, published a while back. GM Jon only started in 2025, so a ‘while back’ usually means a few months ago only… My You-tube video of Crocodile Nonsense Rock has not yet had 100 views, which is disappointing compared to it having had close to 10,000 streams on Spotify (with no video). Does make me wonder if videos are worth doing at all. Maybe the crocodile is too frightening? youtube.com/watch?v=-oigEzGP… #GMJon #FrankSinatra #Humour #CrocodileNonsenseRock #TaraTurner #TheNonsenseSongs
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Poet John F Keane's To The Fairest will be with us tomorrow...
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One from the back catalogue, published a while back. GM Jon only started in 2025, so a ‘while back’ usually means a few months ago only… Some life advice from the great American humorist, Mark Twain: youtube.com/watch?v=Vj2TlZW4… #GMJon #MarkTwain #Humour #LifeAdvice
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John F Keane's To The Fairest will be with us in two days time...
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Terry the Tennis Tortoise will be holding court in three days time...
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Coming in five days...in my opinion one of the best GM Jon songs. Tara Turner sings a brilliant poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes:
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The Genius of Bob Dylan Music producer, GM Jon, offers a personal selection of great Bob Dylan tracks, spanning his seven decade career as the leading lyricist in the music world: open.spotify.com/playlist/7q…
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A documentary that gives a fascinating insight into the life and work of one of the world's great scientists, Demis Hassabis. Well worth a watch of you want to get a feel for what it is like to be at the cutting edge... youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzv…
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And in four days, Professor Tudor Rickards' Terry the Tennis Tortoise will be with us! Just in time for Wimbledon...
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John Keane's To The Fairest is coming in three days time. It features, apart from the great lyrics, some superb instrumental music:
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Recently it has been a pleasure working with poet John Keane, turning some of his work into music. Not too long from now a whole album of his songs is planned. Today saw the publication of a jazzy version of the somewhat sad Missing the Boat. Out now on you-tube: youtube.com/watch?v=fgfx7tr4… #GMJon #JohnKeane #MissingTheBoat #Jazz #TaraTurner #PoetryToMusic
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‘Another song from the pen of Steve Tranter will be with us July 6th. Steve explains some of his thoughts behind the song: ‘I wouldn’t want anyone to think this is overly bleak. In essence, I was trying to explain what Shakespeare described in Romeo and Juliet as the “sweet sorrow“ of parting. Why would it be sweet? Yet, don’t we know instinctively what he means? Intrigued, I tried to tap into that bitter-sweet feeling.’ ’ Spotify pre-save? distrokid.com/hyperfollow/gm…
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Track twelve from When I'm Ninety Four is my own Early Onset Rigor Mortis, a darkly humorous but moving song. Here it is on You-tube youtube.com/watch?v=UPl_yPHv… And on Spotify open.spotify.com/track/7F3H8…
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