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Bought OTD in 1970: Byrds catch up time. So many great tracks: the two singles, Gene on Feel A Whole Lot Better and Here Without You, the Bo Diddley bit in Don’t Doubt Yourself Babe, but pride of place to the Ciro’s classic, their version of Idris Davies verses in Bells of Rhymney

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A special "from the archives" episode of the Who Cares Anyway Podcast -- my 2019 interview with the great @jonsavage.bsky.social. whocaresanywaysf.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/w... @headpress.com

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RIP Brian Wilson - so much pleasure and wonder. This is my favourite Beach Boys track with vocals isolated to get its full splendour www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOQQ...

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Bought OTD in 1970: another big album. Production a bit thin, but every song has something to recommend. Stills has the hit, Neil Young establishes his unique voice, Furay sweetens it out and Bruce Palmer amazes on the closing Pay The Price

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Bought OTD in 1970: this was a big album for me. Short measure and with a bit of filler, but the highs are intense: the title track, the two serpentine Gene Clark ballads, the teen pop rush of Wait and See, The World Turns All Around Her. Missing in action: Gene’s resignation note, The Day Walk

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RIP Sly - thanks for everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czr...

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Finished copies of new comp Space have arrived! Find them here carolinetruerecords.com/pages/frontp...

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Found while looking through some papers, my first contact with Cabaret Voltaire - after the New Musick editorials that Jane Suck and I did. The package contained an early tape. Resulted in an April 1978 feature in Sounds - their first

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Talking about The Secret Public exhibition and book on Radcliffe and Maconie www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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With Paul and Alice outside Castle Kitchen Montgomery - a fantastic lunch before #montylitfest

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At Montgomery Castle with Paul and Bertie #montgomerylitfest

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Bought OTD in 1971: cool Dylan bootleg - one side of prime 1965-66 cuts, the other a collection of earlier recordings. Obsolete now after The Cutting Edge but proper fan folk art. Killing Me Alive shreds

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Paperback of The Secret Public today. Exhibition of book materials plus more at the John Rylands Library until November. You know what to do

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Bought OTD in 1971: a big Dylan year for me. His garage punk album - pretty unimpeachable except I prefer the first version and the 66 live renditions of Desolation Row. Favourite track: From A Buick Six, a relentless rocker

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Bought OTD in 1970: a good time to get high sixties albums cheap. Feel this is slightly undervalued compared to the two monster bookends, but it’s really terrific. Full of great songs and pop discipline- Spanish Castle Magic, Castles Made of Sand, You Got Me Floatin and of course the title track

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Bought OTD in 1970: some fabulous songs here - These Days, I’ll Keep It With Mine, The Fairest of the Seasons - topped by two amazing VU supplements: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams ( aka Can’t Get Used To losing You) and the full blown freak out - It Was A Pleasure Then

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Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 4th, June 1977 including Chelsea, Cortinas, Eater and Ian Hunter. @jonsavage.bsky.social

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Bought OTD in 1972: played the hell out of it. Now I think it’s a mood piece - in that you have to be in the mood. Occasionally the murk puts me off but there’s so much to enjoy here. Side 1 is great but side 4 contains the favourites: All Down The Line and Soul Survivor. Steep decline after

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Really enjoying this punchy, brisk expose: if you want to know why the (news) media is so shit and why media studies/ criticism should be taught in schools, look no further. Mic Wright names names (those dreadful columnists) and, unusually, admits his own complicity

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Notice of The Secret Public talk at Faber & Faber in Hatton Garden Wednesday 4 June at 630pm. Sign up and servyou there www.faber.co.uk/product/auth...

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Bought OTD in 1971: Loaded full of potential hits. Two classic rockers (Sweet Jane, Rock’n Roll), a song of outsider pride (Head Held High), some devotional doo woo and a reverbed out monster (Train Around The Bend). Fabulous! Contemporary Melody Maker by Michael Watts

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21st, May 1977 The Clash, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect and The Prefects' gig at the Rainbow reviewed by Jon Savage. "Rock 'N' Roll can be one of the few honest things left in this world." @jonsavage.bsky.social @theclash.com @longlivethejam.bsky.social @buzzcocks.com

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Great mention on the Pet Shop Boys’ website about their visit last week to The Secret Public Exhibition at the John Rylands Library www.petshopboys.co.uk/pet-texts/20...

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⚡'The Secret Public' is open at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Manchester, celebrating LGBTQ pop 1955-1985, inspired by @jonsavage.bsky.social's fab book, 'The Secret Public'. One of highlights: Ian Curtis's copy of 'Hunky Dory' signed Bowie, Bolder and Ronson! Pics by @traincurator.bsky.social ❤️

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Johnny Marr at the launch of The Secret Public exhibition LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985- at John Rylands Library last night. It opens to the public today

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At The Secret Public exhibition LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985- at John Rylands Library - opens to the public on Thursday

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At Hodnet Hall and Gardens

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At Mow Cop with Paul

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On the front at Llanfairfechan

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Great review of upcoming Caroline True Space Comp by banbantonton - thanks! banbantonton.com/2025/05/06/j...

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Rereading this, bought in 1976 the year of London Punk: a prescient parable of a fascist America - if WW2 had gone a different way

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An interview with Pat Palladin and Judy Nylon of Snatch by Jon Savage in Sounds 6th, May 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

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ingles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 6th, May 1978 including Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle and The Residents. @jonsavage.bsky.social @theresidents.bsky.social

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Tree of the day: old oak in first bloom

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Paperback of The Secret Public has arrived. Out next month

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Poster outside the John Rylands Library advertising the exhibition The Secret Public - based on my book - which is opening at the JRL on May 14th and running through til November

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The Damned's gig at the Roundhouse reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 30th, April 1977. Supported by The Adverts. Pic by Gus Stewart. @jonsavage.bsky.social

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