What Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan, Lord Hailsham, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, Roger Vadim, Michael Caine, Leonard Cheshire, Paul Raymond, Eric Morecambe, Mick Jagger, Terry Wogan, Elvis Presley, Dennis Hopper, David Attenborough, Tony Benn, Charlie Watts, Enoch Powell, Marc Bolan and Jimmy Savile (and many more) told me… There are many good and honourable reasons for… 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…
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…
Professional footballers up and down the country did what they are paid to do over the weekend. They tried to score goals, and when some of them succeeded their various team mates rushed to engulf them in euphoric tangles of arms, legs and kisses. Why such passion? They play twice a week. A goal isn’t… Continue reading…
Daily Mail April 3, 2012 When the Beatles’ album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album was released in 1967 at the very height of their fame, it was a wonder of its age – and not only for its songs. Almost as important was its packaging – that ornate, folding sleeve that showed the… Continue reading…
