In 1968, back home in the USA, the freaks were struggling with the changing times. Issues such as race, emancipation of women and the waging of futile wars in Asia were prominent in the media. And it wasn’t just America that was trying to catch up with those pesky upheavals, by 1968, the establishment had […]
Happy Together by The Turtles was the first full priced album I ever bought. I had already picked up Donovan’s Universal Soldier – I vaguely remember that I bought it in Marple, a town close to where I lived. It was on the budget Marble Arch label new for 13/6 (that’s thirteen shillings and six pence, […]
As December arrives and the nights become bitterly cold, this 200 year old house fulfils its purpose as if it wants to keep you warm inside its walls, like a mother. The late snow is slowly moving towards us, a great enveloping army of white fingers stretching out blind, unsure of its own purpose – […]