‘Show me a boy who never wanted to be a rock star and I’ll show you a liar…’ was a line I wrote decades ago that was used on the poster for the film Stardust. It caught on as a saying at the time and is now being quoted back at me as Stardust, and… Continue reading…
When I was 18 the only opportunity I had of foreign travel was to stand at the side of the road with my thumb out, and that was how I first saw the Mediterranean. I’d just sat my A-levels and my travelling companion was Malcolm, my sister’s boyfriend. He was a medical student. I’ve no… Continue reading…
Beatles fans love anniversaries, but few have been celebrated as much as the one this week when it was fifty years since the release of the group’s last album, Abbey Road. As expected, there is a remixed version of that swansong LP (that being what we still called albums in those days), complete with the… Continue reading…
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…
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…
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…
Daily Mail – 2.2.19 When Paul McCartney announced in April 1970 that he had no plans for working with the Beatles the world fell in on him. ‘PAUL QUITS BEATLES,’ ran newspaper headlines around the world. And, overnight, the most popular of the four was demonised as the killer of the most loved entertainment attraction… Continue reading…
23.12.18 Harry watched as Amy, with the tip of her tongue poking from between her lips, compiled her list. Finally, at the bottom of the page she wrote in fluorescent pink: ‘Happy Christmas. With love from Amy xxx’. Then, sticking a couple of shiny stars next to her name, she folded the paper and put… Continue reading…
