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Stan’s Record Album Cover Studio – The MC Pooh Job

Stan runs a very successful album cover design businesshelped by his assistant Perc MC’s a self-styled funkerReal cool type, no cheap junkShit, Perc and I we closed our eyesWhen MC funked on bunk Production Notes Pooh brought model, suggested pose. Hair by Stan’s Hairdressing to the Stars Shoes/glasses Studio wardrobe Post Production Notes We getContinue reading “Stan’s Record Album Cover Studio – The MC Pooh Job”

Can’t Now Send My Child To the Corner

Can’t now send my child to the cornerThe corner for naughties no moreWill damage my precious one’s psyche (yep)Can’t send to the corner no more We once could use discipline to train themNow can’t even touch the dear onesAdvantage they take of situationAdvantage to ensure that they’ve won Don MatthewsDecember 2022

FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ (Big Joe Joe Williams 1935) Van Morrison and Them

Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard “Gloria” and launching singer Van Morrison’s musical career. The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Although Them had a short-lived existence, the Belfast group had considerable influence onContinue reading “FCS Daily Music Video – ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ (Big Joe Joe Williams 1935) Van Morrison and Them”

Afghanistan 1984

Expression oh so hauntingPiercing eyes which boreSharbat Gula Afghan1984 Sharbat Gula became Afghanistan’s most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her face in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border in the 1980s. This picture which later went on to become a symbolic image was published on the front cover of the National GeographicContinue reading “Afghanistan 1984”