Twenty years ago today, David Gilmour played the first of three shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, with a very special guest appearance for Comfortably Numb from David Bowie, in what sadly turned out to be Bowie's final ever appearance on a UK stage.
On Sunday at 5pm BST / 12noon ET / 6pm CET, the entire show, released as Remember That Night, will premiere on David's YouTube (where you can watch the full performance of Comfortably Numb now).
CHARIOTS OF FIRE was released 45 years ago today.
David Puttnam struggled for years to get the film made because studios believed a slow British drama about Olympic runners had no commercial appeal. It went on to become a global hit & Best Picture winner.
I took the dogs out for a walk, on a footpath, to have a look at how my neighbour's re drilled wildflower block was coming along. Unless we can change National Grid's mind (and wallet) this becomes nothing more than a power station. Shocking.
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL was released 51 years ago today.
Led Zeppelin invested £31,500 for the filming, Pink Floyd put in £21,000, & Ian Anderson contributed £6,300, because no studio would fund a comedy about King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
The pre-2012 Olympics promo where James Bond reports to the Queen.
Daniel Craig’s 007 is summoned to Buckingham Palace, greeted with “Good evening, Mr Bond,” before escorting her to the Games in one of the most iconic opening ceremony moments ever.
No words for the actions of some people! But have to thank the guys who managed to get it out of the waterway! @CambsCops there’s a scooter abandoned off Broad Lane in Cottenham
Oliver Postgate was born 101 years ago today
Ivor the Engine – “The Dragon” (1976) There’s something truly magical about Ivor, especially Jones the Steam’s adventures with Idris the Dragon. Ivor's more than a locomotive, he's a childhood transportation system. Thank you, Oliver
🚨 Mary Beard is absolutely bang on here on Trump:
“One of the biggest ca- casualties of the Trump administration actually has not been, in the old phrase, truth is the first casualty of war….. It’s words.
Words and language have been so extraordinarily crudified and debased. Now when you were talking to Wes Streeting you were talking about the idea that we have to take Trump seriously but not literally.
Well I’m sorry. I think politics is in part about words and and if we live in a world in which the words of the leading politicians of the planet are simply kind of looked on as window dressing to something else going on underneath, to the real action, I'm afraid we've just lost it.”
#IranWar
A performance that still gives us chills decades later. David Bowie and Annie Lennox honoring Freddie Mercury with "Under Pressure" is pure rock history.
Who remembers the old local mobile van / float deliveries for milk, fish, meat, bread, cheese etc?
Wouldn’t it be great to revive this and provide more communities with fresh food van deliveries straight from local farms and fishing fleets and bypass supermarkets?