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RIP Arlene Smith of the Chantels. She was 16 when she wrote this devastating song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePT...

The Chantels - Maybe (1958)YouTube video by 77GhettoDwww.youtube.com

'That thing you like is bad, actually' feels very 2019.

Show me your best holiday home tat.

If I had no idea what imposter syndrome was, I would simply not opine on imposter syndrome.

If Russian hackers want to seed anger and hate on Bluesky they should simply post about giving up on Middlemarch.

Late July and the kids are dressed in woolly cardigans. God I miss the 70s.

One moment, please, for Pattie Boyd and her new-shoes selfie.

The Union Chapel is advertising for a part-time archivist - it's a great job for someone. I've spent a lot of time there and the staff are great. The archive starts c.1820 and the postwar sections esp. are crammed with ephemera on all kinds of music and performance.

Amazing that lard, sardines and tapioca are cool. My nan would have been triumphant.

Lots of writers now only quote from original interviews, archives or physical books -- anything else is too dangerous. It takes forever and I'm not sure there's another way.