As is well known, I was in love with Adam when I was twelve and I still like his early records. Today, Liberal England posted this video. By 1974, when the record was made, I had long since moved on and thought of Adam as an actor rather than a singer. Here he is, though, pretty as ever. Not a great song but a curiosity which I’d never heard before ( Read more... )

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This time, he really has died. I’ve been listening to him since the Saturday Club days in the sixties. Liberal England has a nice little tribute today. Adam Faith in the photograph!

SOTS has been particularly good today; I turned the radio up really loud for One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later). It seems incredible now that a brilliant Dylan track from Blonde on Blonde barely made the top 40 in the UK ( Read more... )

Steve McQueen and The Beatles made an unlikely connection between two BBC4 programmes I’ve watched this week: Knitting’s Golden Age and Neil Brand’s series Sound of CinemaI was disappointed by the knitting programme. The films were good, especially the old black and white shots of women knitting Fair Isle patterns at astonishing speed while herding ( Read more... )

How About That by Adam Faith has been in my head all morning. How could you not find this cheerful? I love every cute two minutes and twenty seconds of it.

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If you’d like a laugh/shock, check out You Tube for Adam singing Poor Me with Bruce Forsyth at the London Palladium in 1960.

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The writer of 60goingon16 has been to see the exhibition of Bob Dylan’s paintings; lucky her. It’s nice to meet another admirer because I get the feeling my Flist is pretty cool on the great man. The thing about my love of Bob Dylan is that it has absolutely nothing to do with nostalgia. When I hear Poor Me, I smile fondly at the memory of how ( Read more... )

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