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Jack Bruce and the meaning of life
Obviously filmed a while ago for the in-progress documentary about his song writing partner Pete Brown, the late Jack Bruce casts a light upon British humour and the role it played in our country’s psyche. The ability to laugh at ourselves and a surreal view of what is life is just so British. Life with the Graham…
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Steve Jenkins tops the pops
Here are some insights from a man who knew a huge amount of detail about how the British pop charts were compiled each week and what could be done to ‘improve’ them. At one stage he worked for a company called Record Sales who merchandised the shops that reported their sales figures for the charts to be compiled from and…
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Our Favourite Melodies – The Embassy label
click sleeve to BUY The eternally uncool, unloved Embassy Records was one of the most successful and profitable UK record labels of the 50s & 60s, yet you won’t find any of their best sellers listed in the Official Charts book, and you never heard them on the wireless, either. Nor, generally, will you see…
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An early and rare Move interview
There is not too much of this interview and it is clear that at times the film stock ran out. Such were the problems in those pioneering days when the film and sound were actually recorded on separate machines; so when it came to editing you just worked with what you had actually managed to capture. This is…
