Plus… Tubular Bells! New Substack Post Today. #MikeOldfield open.substack.com/pub/stuart…

Farewell David Hockney painter and proud Yorkshireman. He did loads of album sleeves, but most were classical music. There is this one by the Who, however. Hockney did one of the Roger Daltrey portraits.

Hofner trade show 1966. 58 guineas (£60.90) for the Hofner 500/1 bass as used by McCartney

Best World Cup Shirts? Traditionalists will disagree but it’s got to be USA and Croatia for me

"I first saw the Beatles in Manchester of all places. They were scheduled to play that night. They came through the front door about three in the afternoon to set up their equipment, and every girl in there stopped dead in their tracks.  It was like four Marlon Brandos had walked in.  They had an innate, primordial swagger.  Aside from the raw energy they put out, they looked fantastic.  A total coolness emanated off them, like a Young Riders kind of vibe. You know, they’d swing the door open and they’d all be standing there while the dust settled around them.  They hadn’t even played a note, and the girls would swoon and faint.  Fuckin’ fantastic . . . "In general, that band was flat-out amazing, and everybody knew it. They played a molten, scruffy brand of rock ‘n’ roll. And they had attitude in spades. They’d swear and smoke onstage, tell off the audience, all of which just added to their mystique. The Hollies didn’t have that kind of power. "They were very protected by a filtering system between the four of them.  They were always together, even if there was a room full of people and they were all separated.  I got to see it all unfolding before my eyes.  And I was aware that it was historical.  It was almost spiritual.  When you saw the Beatles, and saw the effect they had on people, you knew something special was happening. "I don’t think there’ll ever be another Beatles. I think that the universe put those four kids in the right place at the right time, and gave them the right talent, to be able to move the hearts and minds and spirits of billions of people. The Beatles were the best band in the world, there’s absolutely no question about it." --#GrahamNash #Hollies #CrosbyStillsNash #CSN @TheGrahamNash #Songwriter #OBE #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #Charisma #GOAT Sources: "Wild Tales," Nash; Interview with James Rosen on "The Foxhole," 2015

New Substack post: A Gallery of Guilty Pleasures - Peculiar Records With Interesting Sleeves. #7 - The Triumph of an A.4 Pacific open.substack.com/pub/stuart…

Allen Ginsberg would have been 100 today. Here he is in Trafalgar Square circa late 60s with his father Louis and, inexplicably, Magic Michael.

37 years ago this very month I wrote a #FrankZappa piece (one of several over the years) for Record Collector magazine. I can't remember how much they paid me, probably less than £100.

Speaking of Arsenal, I was at the 1983 FA Cup Highbury semi final between Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton which SWFC lost 2-1. As we shuffled out of the ground I heard a #Sheffield fan say “Shall we buy a hot dog?” His mate wearily replied “I’m buying fucking nowt from London!”

"I know he's bald, but he actually needed 2 hairdryers because he likes to blow-dry his baws.."

Well, it looks like I'm in the money, so see ya later suckers.

59 years ago this very day I found myself in Spalding, Lincolnshire to witness what was probably the first great UK rock festival. I wrote about it on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/stuart…

Another great car owned by Mantovani. A circa 1962 Bentley S2 Continental with coachwork by Park Ward @Superstar_Cars @Rockstarscars

Here's Savoy Brown bass player Tone Stevens pictured in 1970 with his Alvis TE21. And a red setter. According to Wiki, Stevens became a subject of American performance artist/groupie Cynthia Albritton, better known as "Cynthia Plaster Caster." @Rockstarscars @Superstar_Cars

$105 for Wings Greatest? It’s a $10 - $15 album at best

Peak Ron Wood hair! And a glimpse of Charlie's bald patch