Now this is a cheat. There is no way I really got into the Zombies until a lot later than the 60’s or even 70’s, but this really is a masterpiece. Looking at the hits of that year, there is nothing really that I would have been into at the tme, with the exception of […]
Entries from December 29th, 2018
1968 – Time of the Season
December 29th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1968 – Time of the Season · Music
Tags: 1962Onwards
Hospital parking
December 29th, 2018 · Comments Off on Hospital parking · Life
The question about hospital car parking charges has been in the news again in the last couple of days, following some FOI requests from the media. What grabbed my attention was the unsurprising statistic tht the hospital where I seem to be spending half my time (Royal Surrey in Guildford) has the most expensive parking. […]
Tags: Parking
1967 – I’m A Believer
December 28th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1967 – I’m A Believer · Music
The biggest hit single of 1967 was A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum. I love that song. I remember a particularly good night doing my rendiditon of it at a karaoke party in the 80’s. Apart from that, I like Procol Harum generally. I think it is criminal that so many people only […]
Tags: 1962Onwards
Enjoying Christmas
December 28th, 2018 · Comments Off on Enjoying Christmas · Life
My natural tendancy is towards Grinchiness at Christmas. I am not a fan. Can’t see the point of it, and get concerned about the conspicuous consumption of it all. Despite all that, I really enjoyed it all this year.
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1966 – Good Vibrations
December 19th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1966 – Good Vibrations · Music
There were some good songs out in 1966, that I am very fond of, but none of them made an impression on the 4-year-old Skuds until much later. How to pick a song to represent the year when you are choosing between Substitute by the Who, many brilliant Beatles songs, I Feel Free by Cream, […]
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1965 – Concrete and Clay
December 19th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1965 – Concrete and Clay · Music
As I have already said, I am not not a massive fan of 60’s music. I can appreciate some of it, but even then it is music I heard a lot later. All of which makes the 1965 entry quite special because I think I did hear this in the 60’s, although not in ’65 […]
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Fantastic Voyage
December 19th, 2018 · Comments Off on Fantastic Voyage · Life
I don’t want to bang on about this cancer of mine, and will try to avoid doing so, but a thought struck me the other day. In the last few months I have had an endoscopy, an ultrasound endoscopy, a laparoscopy, a CT scan, a PET CT scan, and MRI scan of the brain and […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health·Science
1964 – The Ballad of Hollis Brown
December 9th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1964 – The Ballad of Hollis Brown · Music
OK, so this might not be an obvious one. It isn’t one of Bob Dylan’s best-known songs and wasn’t even a single, but although I obviously wasn’t listening to this as a two-year-old I did listen to it a lot at quite a young age. When I was growing up there were very few records […]
Tags: 1962Onwards·Spotify
1963 – She Loves You
December 9th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1963 – She Loves You · Music
At I was still too young to be engaged with music other than maybe nursery rhymes, and without having the good fortune of one of my all-time favourites being released, as in 1962, it isn’t easy to pick a song for 1963. Looking at the singles for this year there are precious few that I […]
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1962 – Green Onions
December 7th, 2018 · Comments Off on 1962 – Green Onions · Music
A few months ago I created a Spotify playlist with one track for every year of my life. I already have plenty of playlists that mostly have similar types of music in them – so a punk playlist, a rap playlist, a krautrock playlist, and so on, but I am trying to set some up […]
Tags: 1962Onwards·Spotify
