This vintage clip of The Smiths on a Granada TV children’s show. Worth a look for a clip of Morrissey and Marr playing This Charming Man unplugged. And Morrissey’s message to the kids. Plus hilarious quotes like this: “When I was nine I didn’t like children, which made life terribly difficult for me..”
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This vintage clip of The Smiths on a Granada TV children’s show. Worth a look for a clip of Morrissey and Marr playing This Charming Man unplugged. And Morrissey’s message to the kids. Plus hilarious quotes like this: “When I was nine I didn’t like children, which made life terribly difficult for me..”

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The twin colossus (or is that colossi?) of 1997 light entertainment finally meet here on a reworked version of a Pulp hit, retitled Help The Muthafuckin’ Aged. Happily, Ali G branding Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker a “batty boy” does not to phase the doughty singer, who answers by waving his ass in the air, just [...]

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Inexplicably buried as a “hidden track” ten minutes from the end of his new album, this is Jarvis Cocker’s best effort since Common People. It’s a video he shot for this year’s Glastonbury, I believe.
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I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead but here’s a clip that is impossible to ignore. Reasons for James Brown’s impending divorce from third wife Adrienne in April 1994 could be guessed after viewers watched this clip from CNN TV show Sonya Live, in which the singer, out of his mind on [...]

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Apologies for the month long respite. I had to do the laundry, take my suit to the dry cleaners, you know how it is. To start the new year as I mean to go on here’s a rare clip of Ricky Gervais interviewing Coldplay’s Chris Martin for Gervais’s award winning website (it’s plugged at the [...]

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