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@theoceanblooms there’s a quintessential british music hall ditty from 1907 called “it ain’t all honey and it ain’t all jam”. https://t.co/TUEfQ5s4gi

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@EtainN He is famously not English

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@suzyputrid Back to the Egg all day! It’s messy and weird and GREAT :)

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@ItsJustPup yeah why don’t public spaces have *more* advertising everywhere

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@DoctorWhoPN Christ, why would you expect him to be promoting something due in December over his new series premiering in a matter of weeks?

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@Tetradugenikid I kinda like this though because it makes it that much more of a challenge. whaddya mean I have to listen to like 20 george jones albums to get a feel for him and there are no undisputed classics?

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@NEWE4RTH The first and probably last time Al Jolson is referenced in Doctor Who.

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@IrkthePurists This only counts for so much but on the user-aggregated site RateYourMusic, it's within the top 300 of all albums.
https://t.co/UZHRjEMDqk

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@VashKohime Jackson already has lapped it up; the Get Back series has the Beatles looking like they’re made out of play-doh.

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@JakesScarfStash I wonder what that unnamed country next to England is. I guess we’ll never know.

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@celinedionysus_ This piece by @Steven_Hyden is really good on this. He identifies Elvis Costello (my beloved) as in a lull, which I'd agree with. I'd say the Incredible String Band are in a possibly terminal one too.
https://t.co/mwUCr3FL3I

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@benjimadness @celinedionysus_ YES I think about this all the time (and bring it up on RYM constantly lol). Traffic are arguably part of a funny between-period in UK rock where you could sell millions without a perceived "sound" (see also: Family). If the R&R hall of fame was invented now, they'd never get in.

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@peterlanee I think another London location is most likely. Probably not any time soon but I think Paul's St John's Wood house isn't out of the question in the long run; it's close enough to Abbey Road to potentially syphon tourists visiting the crossing.

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@celinedionysus_ Definitely depends where you consider "rock" to start. "The Sound of Fury" (1960), the first album by Liverpudlian Billy Fury, is probably the first British example. It's all self-written material cut in one session but it's very much Elvis-style R&R.
https://t.co/jQpJhc05hL

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@DWMtweets Who is this bloke?

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@t0mbstoneblues The Gershwins, Bacharach and David, Huddie Ledbetter, Otis Blackwell :)

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@EatYourOwnEars Hi, I’m trying to get in contact with you about some logistics with the Lemon Twigs gig in London (been speaking to the band). Would it be okay to DM you? :)

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@Paytress This looks like genuine colour to me but Jim Marshall took similar B&W pics on the same day.

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@cowboy_postbop I think what often gets lost in these conversations too is that Big Mama Thornton’s version was a hit, more or less the biggest R&B smash of the year. I think people perhaps imagine she was an unknown blues singer and not a popular recording artist.

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@mertonesque congratulations!! :)