So my least favourite day of the year is long gone, good
riddance to Halloween for another year. Goodbye to one of the most
over-commercialised, over-hyped, fright night- shite days of the year.
Unbelievably a reasonably civilised society such as the USA has built this
tripe fest to massive proportions and then transplanted it back over here so we
all have to suffer this nonsense. Why can’t we just celebrate our old-fashioned
pagan ways ourselves without all this Hollywood scary movie, vampire slaying,
Boris Karloff bollocks every 31st of October.
Anyway moving on, this week I caught up with two fascinating
documentaries on the making of ‘Tommy’ & ‘Quadrophenia’ by The Who. Two
wonderful rock operas that still sound as cool and fresh today, even though
they came out of Pete Townsend’s brain more than 30 years ago. Sitting watching
these docs, really brought it home to me how clever and literate Townsend was
and the fact that the band all came from my old area of West London makes them
rather special. It made me smile watching Pete being filmed having a discussion
about ‘mods’ in the Pie & Mash shop that is still there in Shepherds Bush.
My Nan used to go there every Friday for a takeaway to bring it back on the bus
(no 117) I think and we would have the pie, mash and liquor re-heated for a
fabulous weekly treat.
Also this week saw the end of Lou Reed, I always appreciated
what he did and what he was to modern rock music history without being a big
fan although I do own a smattering of his albums. I always really liked ‘New
York’ from 1989 which was his 15th solo album !! for it’s
great guitar riffs and acerbic lyrics. I only saw him play live once at an odd
venue, The London Palladium and the gig became more memorable to me for the
location rather than the music.
Enjoy
RIP Lou Reed
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