For fifty years it’s never been far from our ears. It’s on the radio, it’s a karaoke favourite in bars, it’s crooned in the plural by mobs on football terraces, and it’s heard with increasing frequency at funerals for those of a certain generation. It’s My Way, the English version of which was recorded by… Continue reading…
Responding to research from Heidelberg University that stated that parents are happier when their children have left home, I wrote: The happiest times in this father’s life were when his children were little. Yes, it was murderously busy sometimes, but the memories of the day-to-day joy they brought never leave. I managed to keep ours… Continue reading…
I’m new to podcasts but I’m told by US Beatles fans that this is good. It’s free to listen to, anyway. http://somethingaboutthebeatles.com/173-ray-connolly/ Continue reading…
After something like 30 years, the series Lytton’s Diary (which I wrote) begins a complete rerun on August 7 on Talking Pictures. It will run every weekday night at 10.pm for 12 days. Set on the gossip column desk of a national newspaper, with Peter Bowles playing the lead, it was quite a hit in… Continue reading…
Considering the historical enormity of that moment fifty years ago when a man first walked on the surface of the moon, I have a confession to make. I missed it. Throughout the four days after Apollo 11 was blasted off from Florida’s Cape Kennedy by a giant Saturn V rocket, I, like many people, followed… Continue reading…
For decades I’d thought of Mallorca simply as bikini scattered beaches, noisy discos, much revelling, and rampant romancing. And, if that’s what you want on holiday, I expect there’s a lot of it to be found there – although the romance might depend on your luck and age. But there is another, quite different Mallorca,… Continue reading…
For decades I’d thought of Mallorca simply as bikini scattered beaches, noisy discos, much revelling, and rampant romancing. And, if that’s what you want on holiday, I expect there’s a lot of it to be found there – although the romance might depend on your luck and age. But there is another, quite different Mallorca,… Continue reading…
Daily Mail – 8 June, 2019 For decades I’d thought of Mallorca simply as bikini scattered beaches, noisy discos, much revelling, and rampant romancing. And, if that’s what you want on holiday, I expect there’s a lot of it to be found there – although the romance might depend on your luck and age. But… Continue reading…
