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Didn’t even manage to clear the island 5/10

Quincy Jones has far more and it's no coincidence that Jacksons three greatest albums (Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad), the three that made him a global superstar, were all produced and arranged by Quincy Jones Jones even says that Jackson stole a lot of songs from elsewhere (He specifically named Donna Summers State of Independence for Billy Jean as one example)

Without looking it up, name any of the first four Jackson Album's before Off the Wall Jackson, the songwriter, undoubtedly talented, Jackson the musician and arranger? Not so much

I don't have a garage but we did get a new shed in January, amazingly it has stayed tidy since I organised it all the day it was delivered Want to know the secret?

Nah, that was Quincy Jones

Didn't know where to put this...

So the house band at Channel 1 used to be The Revolutionaries, which included Sly and Robbie plus one Bingi Bunny. Sly and Robbie got a wee bit famous so the Revolutionaries were disbanded. Bunny along with Flabba Holt and Style Scott became the Roots Rdics, the new Channel 1 house band. Again theres a huge On-U connection here, not only did the Radics appear on some early On-U releases but Style Scott also became an important piece of the On-U jigsaw both with and aside from his next Venture Dub Syndicate. Anyway, an album of Roots Radics Dubs

This is nonsense Where are the Far Left in power that the Far Right are reacting to? Macron? Blair and Brown? Merkel? The EU? There's absolutely no correlation at all

So it's a nice sunny day and I headed into town to pick up a couple of bits that I needed, pretty trivial stuff but as ever I end up in record shops (how this happens is a mystery to me) Sunny weather usually means a reggae / dub purchase is likely. That obviously happened So there's this story that John Lydon signed to Virgin because he really appreciated the way they treated their reggae artists (not like shit which a lot of other majors did), so Virgin had been releasing reggae for a while by 1978 and decided to set up a dedicated reggae subsidiary - Front Line. After the Pistols split and before PIL (early 78), Lydon ends up on holiday in Jamaica with Don Letts and others. The rumour is that Lydon was effectively acting as an A&R Man for Front Line, if he was, he certainly was very productive, Front Line realeased a silly amount of albums and singles between 78 and 79. Virgin then inexplicably disbanded the label in 79. This was the Roots / Rockers / Dub era and Jamaican reggae was probably at the absolute peak of it's powers. Anyway this double album compilation cherry picks some great artists on Front Line from that very narrow period and ticked an awful lot of boxes for me, reggae / dub, single label compilation and it has On-U connections too (Prince Far-I on first glance). This has U-Roy (another vague ON-U connection iirc), Culture, Twinkle Brothers, The Gladiators, Gregory Issacs and .... Reggae compilations can very often be a bit hit and miss but not this one, this really is a superb compilation. I'd thoroughly recommend it for those with an interest in Jamaican music.

Oh he definitely knows his shit but on a personal level... utter arsehole. He definitely has a public persona and a real life persona Whatever you do, don't enter any competitions to spend a day with Brian Cox unless you want to be ignored for the entire day until someone turns a camera on

There's a good number near me in Formby a good 110 miles away (including the manager )

Standard captive audience / London weighting prices I'd have thought I'll wager that Arsenal is much higher having paid £6.50 for a pie at the Ashburton Grove over ten years ago

Not watched it but you just described every professional and large scale music promoter that ever existed (I don't count the Eavises in this category) Music Promoters are in it for the money, the love of music long left them or was never present. It's purely a numbers game. It's a badge of honour they all wear, that they never watch the band. (unless they do for 5 minutes so they can reference something if asked by the band)

Arse biscuits Wordle 414 6/6*

Well it's not surprising that she took a stage name. Her real name was Judith Mavis Cock

"Out of depth in a bird bath"

Wordle 413 4/6*

I feel for you, my missus was in Labour for close to 34 hours, Induced at 6pm Friday, born 4am Sunday morning Congratulations to you and especially your wife

You're in sectioned territory there though