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Arguably the greatest S&M themed electrofunk record by the son of the Pentagon's head of communications for the Vietnam war, and produced in Germany with Peter Baumann from Tangerine Dream, and then finished at Unique Studios in NYC where Arthur Baker overheard them and signed it on the spot

In case you didn't know, here's some more important info. Dominique Davalos who played the dominatrix role in Beth B's video, and wound up joining them for live shows, went on to play bass in Cherry Bomb from George Lucas' ill-advised Howard The Duck movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPX...

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This guy went from being the leader of the lowest gang in the food chain in late 70s South Bronx to turning his life around and working on Wall Street in the mid 80s

Arguably the greatest funk record made in a shed in Stamford Hill

Arguably the greatest theme tune to a tv show starring the didgeridoo player from my 90s funk band

Here he is on didgeridoo duties at the end of this muffled old clip from 30 years ago

Arguably the greatest Stevie Wonder record to inadvertently inspire the birth of modern Bhangra

If you missed my piece about how a Southall kid afflicted by polio started experimenting with tape loops after buying Superstition, and the wedding where Bhangra was born… daily.bandcamp.com/features/kul...

Pretty sure it was Star Wars at Studio 7 in Kingston in May '78 (it came out just before New Years '77 in the UK and remained in cinemas well into the following summer). It's just a residual memory, and my mum said she spent much of the film in the lobby with me crying.

I've been commissioned to write an anniversary piece which I've had on the back burner for a few years now, and I'm very excited. Any guesses?

An honour to be a guest of @themountaingoats.bsky.social this evening, who not only played a stunning set, but they did it in a venue which a) is conveniently a short bus ride from the end of my street, and b) was where I used to take my daughter every Monday for a huge soft play extravaganza

Though I prefer not to be one of those folks with their phone out at a gig, I had to get a short clip of @themountaingoats.bsky.social in action opposite Hackney Church’s impressive pipes

Arguably the best post-Britpop hip hop single produced by the guy behind the Dr Octagon LP, and based entirely around a sample of a track by uk jazz royalty Johnny Dankworth for the soundtrack of an adaptation of a comic inspired by a girl the writer encountered while posted in Persia during WWII

I had to remove a section about Rudolf Nureyev from my Andrea True piece earlier this year, for space reasons. In short, Nureyev’s lover Wallace Potts directed the porn film which the original instrumental of More More More was written for. Fact fans

Dizzy Gillespie was born OTD in 1917. Here's something I wrote a while back about his bid for US presidency, Also contains his animation work and penis trousers... rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-14...

Listening to a bit of Mono's criminally overlooked* album Formica Blues, and it just dawned on me they opened this track with the same sample Prince used for the opening of Lovesexy www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SC... *in the pantheon of 90s trip hop

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