Hannah Howe

Mother, author, publisher, genealogist, SOE historian, Welsh, European, vintage movie and music fan. Autthor of the forthcoming Swinging Sixties mystery series.

Author: Sam Smith Mystery Series, Tula: Golden Age of Hollywood Series, Eve’s War Heroines of SOE Series
Author: Ann’s War Mystery Series, The Olive Tree: A Spanish Civil War Saga, Saving Grace: A Victorian Novel
Website: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Hannah-Howe/author/B00OK7E24E

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2026-03-25 15:22:35 GMT

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2025-12-21 17:08:35 GMT

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2025-12-21 17:07:32 GMT

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2025-11-13 16:50:26 GMT

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2025-11-13 16:46:57 GMT

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2025-11-12 16:43:36 GMT

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David Tennant v Tom Baker
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2025-11-11 16:47:06 GMT

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2025-11-10 15:17:42 GMT

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2025-11-04 16:50:24 GMT

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2025-11-04 16:49:41 GMT

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2025-11-04 16:48:45 GMT

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2025-11-04 16:47:58 GMT

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2025-11-04 16:47:08 GMT

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2025-11-01 12:47:50 GMT

On television, 1 November 1982.
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2025-10-23 16:01:26 GMT

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2025-10-23 16:00:30 GMT

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2025-10-23 15:59:19 GMT

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2025-10-22 16:54:27 GMT

Some personal news. My eldest son is working on his computer science master‘s degree at Swansea University, and today my youngest son received a conditional offer to study psychology at Cardiff University 😊

2025-10-21 16:08:19 GMT

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2025-10-20 16:09:38 GMT

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2025-10-20 16:08:33 GMT

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2025-10-20 16:07:12 GMT

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2025-10-20 16:06:14 GMT

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2025-10-11 16:14:22 GMT

Our Favourite Television Programme of the 1960s and 1970s Poll
Humour. Final. Result:
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 70% v 30% The Muppet Show
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2025-10-08 16:12:07 GMT

Our Favourite Television Programme of the 1960s and 1970s Poll
Humour. Last 16 Results:
Dave Allen at Large 69% v 31% Ripping Yarns
Dad’s Army 39% v 61% The Good Life
Not the Nine o’Clock News 73% v 27% Porridge
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2025-09-30 16:23:25 GMT

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The Man From UNCLE v Columbo
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2025-09-30 16:22:18 GMT

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The Avengers (Diana Rigg) v The Avengers (Honor Blackman)
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2025-09-29 16:03:17 GMT

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The Sweeney v The Avengers (Honor Blackman)
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2025-09-25 13:20:00 GMT

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A paradise for drunks, that’s Jersey. Death from cirrhosis of the liver is seven times more common in Jersey than in England and Wales. There are nine times as many convictions for drunken driving and twelve times as many people on Jersey go to hospital for alcoholic psychosis. The reason? Cheap drink, too many bars and long licensing hours.

2025-09-25 13:19:46 GMT

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Bad weather has hit the church funds at the Methodist Church, Stanford, Lincolnshire. Sixty women members agreed to put aside a coin each time the sun shone. They saved only 8s each.
Nylons are coming down in price. As cheap Italian stockings flood Britain, British firms are hitting back. A bestselling brand costing 6s 11d two years ago now sells for 3s 11d. The price of nylons is expected to fall further as improved production methods increase output.

2025-09-25 13:18:39 GMT

Wednesday 25 September 1963
Quick-frozen fish will put an end to fresh-fish shops in twenty years, it was suggested yesterday. The suggestion was made at a public health inspectors’ conference in Eastbourne. Transporting wet fish in unsanitary wooden boxes will also be a factor.
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2025-09-23 14:03:53 GMT

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Science Fiction-Fantasy. Second Semi-Final
Doctor Who v Blake’s 7
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2025-09-23 14:02:46 GMT

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Science Fiction-Fantasy. First Semi-Final
Star Trek v The Twilight Zone
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2025-09-17 14:01:05 GMT

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Music-Entertainment-Sport. Last 16. Match-Up #4
Parkinson v University Challenge
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2025-09-17 14:00:04 GMT

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Music-Entertainment-Sport. Last 16. Match-Up #3
The Monkees v Ready, Steady, Go!
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2025-09-17 13:59:02 GMT

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Music-Entertainment-Sport. Last 16. Match-Up #2
It’s a Knockout v The Generation Game
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2025-09-17 13:56:53 GMT

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Music-Entertainment-Sport. Last 16. Match-Up #1
Mastermind v Grandstand
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2025-09-14 14:19:52 GMT

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Music-Entertainment-Sport. Group Four
Juke Box Jury
Jazz 625
Parkinson
Whodunnit?
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2025-09-14 14:18:11 GMT

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Ready, Steady, Go!
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2025-09-14 14:12:51 GMT

On television this day in 1975.
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2025-08-08 20:51:18 GMT

My dog just died.
I’ll be taking a social media break.

2025-07-26 13:42:14 GMT

Friday 26 July 1963
The strange crater in Roy Blanchard’s potato and barley patch was caused by a Thing From Outer Space. The Thing was as big as a cricket ball and weighed half a pound. The Thing was a meteorite, and it was discovered buried eight feet in the ground. (Update on the “meteorite” tomorrow).
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2025-07-25 14:46:42 GMT

On this day in 1963…
Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies were banned from America on the grounds of “moral turpitude”.
Meanwhile, today, America’s most notorious criminal is about to arrive in Scotland…
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2025-07-13 11:13:07 GMT

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In an exciting experiment, dogs are being trained to assist the deaf. The dogs are being taught how to obey sign language, warn people that there is someone at the front door, alert owners if there is an emergency, and respond to notes on a dog whistle. There are 45,000 totally deaf people in Britain today, of whom 5,000 cannot speak. Ten thousand children are amongst the deaf.

2025-07-13 11:12:48 GMT

Saturday 13 July 1963
Some local Tories are using race hate for political ends, the Labour Party has claimed. Labour said the Tories are promoting the slogan, “If you want a n****r neighbour, vote Labour.” Labour has challenged the Tories to hold an immediate inquiry into this slogan.
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2025-07-07 14:12:11 GMT

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Match-Up #118
Louis Armstrong v Bob Dylan
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2025-06-30 13:55:44 GMT

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Match-Up #85
Johnny Cash v Joni Mitchell
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2025-06-30 13:54:50 GMT

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Match-Up #84
James Brown v Frank Sinatra
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2025-06-21 14:05:49 GMT

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Match-Up #40
Louis Armstrong v The Doors
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2025-06-21 14:01:44 GMT

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Match-Up #36
The Rolling Stones v Johnny Cash
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2025-06-17 16:31:03 GMT

My latest historical “postcard” for the Seaside News.
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2025-06-13 14:21:06 GMT

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2025-06-12 13:59:19 GMT

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Match-up #4
1980s v 1990s
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2025-06-12 13:58:05 GMT

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1960s v 1970s
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2025-06-12 13:56:43 GMT

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2025-06-11 14:10:36 GMT

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Match-up #1
1960s v 1990s
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2025-06-11 14:06:14 GMT

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Knowing Me, Knowing You - ABBA
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2025-06-05 13:56:13 GMT

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Match-Up #161
Losing My Religion - REM v Man on the Moon - REM
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2025-05-06 15:23:38 GMT

Monday 6 May 1963
Advice for the youth of today from their parents…Don’t play bingo, keep out of brothels, and don’t go anywhere near Brighton. Also, avoid air-raid shelters, striptease shows and all-night jazz dances. Films to avoid - Room at the Top and Frankenstein. Plus, do not read Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
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2025-05-01 13:34:20 GMT

Emma Peel - 1960s Icon
8 July 1966 Daily Mirror
Diana Rigg receives a pay rise.
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2025-04-09 14:05:51 GMT

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Match-Up #163
Purple Rain - Prince v Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
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2025-04-05 14:02:37 GMT

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Match-Up #142
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics v Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
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2025-04-05 14:00:59 GMT

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Match-Up #141
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division v Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
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2025-03-23 15:06:10 GMT

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Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel v Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
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2025-03-23 15:04:53 GMT

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Money For Nothing - Dire Straits v Manic Monday - Bangles
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2025-03-23 15:03:21 GMT

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2025-03-21 15:05:02 GMT

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2025-03-20 15:00:19 GMT

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Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division v Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
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2025-03-20 14:59:02 GMT

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Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics v Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
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2025-03-18 15:00:04 GMT

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Match-Up #51
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics v Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
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2025-03-11 15:01:58 GMT

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Match-Up #18
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl v Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
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2025-02-27 15:21:52 GMT

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Qualifying Round
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Manic Monday - The Bangles v Drive - The Cars
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2025-02-27 15:19:25 GMT

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Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper 60% v 40% What’s the Frequency, Kenneth - REM
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Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper v Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
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2025-02-14 15:02:38 GMT

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2025-02-14 15:01:14 GMT

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2025-02-12 15:05:02 GMT

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Match-Up #7
It’s The End of the World - REM v The Show Must Go On - Queen
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2025-02-09 14:58:08 GMT

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Match-Up #189
Elton John v Dire Straits
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2025-02-08 14:56:57 GMT

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Match-Up #182
Electric Light Orchestra v Kraftwerk
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2025-02-08 14:55:55 GMT

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Final Round
Match-Up #181
Genesis v Led Zeppelin
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2025-02-06 14:58:39 GMT

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Match-Up #175
Bob Marley and the Wailers v The Police
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2025-02-05 14:59:51 GMT

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Match-Up #166
Fleetwood Mac v Led Zeppelin
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2025-01-31 15:04:22 GMT

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Match-Up #142
David Bowie v Stevie Wonder
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2025-01-29 20:58:44 GMT

If you haven't seen The Prisoner, you won't have a clue about this. If you have, who do you think was Number One?
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2025-01-24 17:22:13 GMT

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Whitehouse’s principal target was the BBC and its director-general Hugh Carleton-Greene. When Carleton-Greene axed the popular satirical show That Was The Week That Was, he said, “It was as a pillar of the Establishment that I yielded to the fascist hyena-like howls to take it off.”
On his retirement, Hugh Carleton-Greene hung a nude oil painting of Mary Whitehouse in his home. He used the painting as a dartboard.

2025-01-24 17:22:03 GMT

In 1965, Mary Whitehouse (pictured) launched the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association with the aim of “cleaning up television”. She saw offensive content everywhere, including in the innocuous Pinky and Perky, Dr Who and Alice Cooper, who she managed to get banned from Top of the Pops.
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2025-01-23 12:22:50 GMT

Queen
Based on your nominations, here is our Queen “Best of” album. A shame ‘39 didn’t make it, but I’m pleased to see that Seven Seas of Rhye and You're My Best Friend did. What are your thoughts on this selection?
We Will Rock You
Don’t Stop Me Now
Bicycle Race
We Are The Champions
Killer Queen
Seven Seas of Rhye
Another One Bites the Dust
You're My Best Friend
Under Pressure
Bohemian Rhapsody
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2025-01-21 16:26:11 GMT

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Beyond Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are the Champions, You’re My Best Friend, and Fat Bottomed Girls, I’d struggle to name Queen songs. Maybe I should revisit their back catalogue. Sometimes a song attracts you to an artist…You’re My Best Friend…other times a song makes you avoid them…Fat Bottomed Girls…

2025-01-21 15:14:23 GMT

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I’m obviously missing something fundamental here…I can understand why Queen are popular, but why are they “so” popular? 🤔

2025-01-21 15:03:31 GMT

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Match-Up #96
Queen v Elton John
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2025-01-15 15:04:07 GMT

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Match-Up #70
Led Zeppelin v Kraftwerk
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2025-01-15 15:03:12 GMT

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Match-Up #69
Lou Reed v Dire Straits
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2025-01-15 15:02:15 GMT

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Match-Up #68
Genesis v The Police
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2025-01-12 19:41:03 GMT

Before Alan Parsons worked with Pink Floyd on The Dark Side of the Moon, he served his apprenticeship recording Pinky and Perky. Session players would deliver slowed-down versions of the songs. The vocals were recorded on a tape running at half-speed, which would then be played at double-speed to create Pinky and Perky’s distinctive voices. Thus, P+P classics such as Can’t Buy Me Love, All My Loving and She Loves You were born.
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2025-01-07 15:01:07 GMT

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Match-Up #32
Blondie v Kraftwerk
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2025-01-06 15:07:32 GMT

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Match-Up #28
Genesis v Neil Young
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2025-01-05 17:11:06 GMT

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I’m collecting all these weird and wonderful musical facts because my next book is partially set in a recording studio, January 1963, and I want the story to be as authentic as possible. Also, some people have a thirst for wine, I have a thirst for knowledge 🙂

2025-01-05 16:58:44 GMT

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I’ve literally got shedsful of information like that 😂