The wonderfully gifted (and understandably starstruck) Jack White plays The Seeker with Pete Townsend.

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Thanks again to Mr Cowles of London for this terrific clip of Blondie. Debbie Harry formed the basis of my first teenage fantasies and seeing this clip I can remember why. (Incidentily, I met her briefly many years later and I was, naturally, completely dumbstruck.) A couple of things jump out about this clip. 1. [...]

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What a marvellously bewildered Top Of The Pops appearance by late period New Order this is. Even in such a balmy LA setting, the Manc heroes manage to exude a glacial cool. Apparently, lifeguards allow rock bands to play on the beach in Malibu…

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A nice clip from 1967 of the band that, according to Neil Young, never realised the greatness contained within them. You can spot Mr Young gooning about stage left. Priceless.

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I an indebted to Musictoober Andy Cowles of London for digging out this next clip. It’s some idiosyncratic footage of Dr Hunter Thompson, Benicio Del Torro and Warren Zevron boozing it up months before Zevron succumbed to cancer. In the film he discusses his terminal illness with admirable sang froid, while Thompson goons around for [...]

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This is stupendous! Of all the people I have met in rock, ex-Blur bassist Alex James was my favorite. Boozy, funny and erudite, he seemed to have a firmer - and looser - grip on what he was doing than anyone else I met. At Q magazine, I commissioned a series of [...]

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I have been searching for this for ages. The way The Specials just explode around the line “population boom” is out of this world. Definitely one of the best live bands ever.

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