I’m not sure whether anyone is still out there – apart from Mick – but in case you are, may I wish you a very happy 2018. We’re done with all those flowers and summer of love stuff now, but 50 years after 1968, here’s a link to a site reminding us about a very remarkable year for album releases
https://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1968
Have fun!
(I guess you’re all taking it easy?)
The young man seated bottom left, who is also this guy:
and this one (right):
John Lytle organ, piano, guitar, even sitar (although I never saw him blow anything, musical that is) of Harlem Speakeasy and Rosemary. Then he went to London and played with Mick & Andy McGuigan and Tom Powell, leaving there mid-1970s to the IOW to rejoin John Edwards of Harlem Speakeasy in the Pumphouse Gang. He’s remained an islander ever since.
Incidentally, bass guitarist Mick Legg (above) sent this year’s photo.
Who’s this Merry old git then? Notable Pompey musician of the late 1960s and early 1970s who then went off to a bigger island:
As the Radiants sang back in the sixties
MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLKS!
OR
From my student days, early 1970s, working on the Christmas Post – the Evening News cameraman hid in the back of the lorry and the rest is history (or something)
Watch out for monsters …
A couple of years ago (more?) the first edition of the Rock Atlas had very little to say about Pompey – the main think I think was that tune by Mike Oldfield (?). So I wrote and there is now rather more, focusing on Tony Crombie. Here’s the first page (of two) from the new edition:
(Running vertically top left there’s even a small credit for Mick, me and Pompey Pop)
I think you’ve got everything, with knobs on. Well done.
Here’s a photo of Viv Stanshall – apparently the only Bonzo no longer with us. It was taken at South Parade Pier by Nigel Grundy:
Nice to be with you,
Happy you could stick around,
Like to introduce … ”
OK here goes with Jim’s questions:
Which band opened which song with those words?
Of all the non-fiction characters named in the song, how many are still alive and who are they?
And how many members of the band who actually recorded the track are still alive?
I’ve just discovered this thanks to Albie (cheers!)
(NB: Heritage Nostalgia)
POMPEY POP 