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Re: The Syd Barrett Movie The most-played recording in my entire collection (which ain’t tiny) is Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Sheer genius. A few months after Barrett departed, we did a TV show with Pink Floyd, who were in the US for the Philadelphia Music Festival at JFK Stadium in July 1968. We were opening for […]

The Syd Barrett Movie

“‘Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd’ (Trailer)”: https://tinyurl.com/2k99mp63 Now this will change your mood. It and the music of Pink Floyd are the antithesis of Wham! Anything but obvious and simple. This film and Pink Floyd have an ethereal quality, there’s no context, they exist on their own […]

The Wham! Movie

Trailer: https://tinyurl.com/26vjsvcj It’s FANTASTIC! Not that I was eager to watch it. The e-mail started to come in last week, absolute raves. So I read the reviews and said…maybe, but not right now. But watching a disappointing comedy special tonight Felice suggested it, and WOW! Started off cheesy. I mean the titles. Like the Motley […]

The Chinatown Book

“The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood”: https://tinyurl.com/39p9w4kz This is a fabulous book. I was not planning to read it. Read the reviews, reserved it at the library, but I’m anti-nonfiction, I find that fiction resonates more, and I’d just finished a couple of music biographies that made me feel like I […]