Will Birch

Author of Cruel To Be Kind @nicklowebio #nosleeptillcanveyisland #iandurybiography #kursaalflyers #therecords #Pepys_ofPubRock

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Nick Lowe receives his copy of ‘Play That Fast Thing One More Time – The Rockpile Story’ – a Labour of Love hardback assembled by Rikard Bengtsson To order from Sweden please contact @[email protected]

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It’s arrived – ‘Play That Fast Thing One More Time – The Rockpile Story’ assembled by Rikard Bengtsson – lots of interviews plus Edmunds and Lowe articles, photos, and information… everything that is #rockpile #PLUg
> To order from Sweden please contact [email protected]

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RIP Jesse Hector, born 1947 and to rock and roll, remembered by Ted Carroll and Roger Armstrong: ‘Hector told us he’d played at the 2i’s in the fifties then he produced a photograph of himself in front of The Shadows when they were still called The Drifters...' #jessehector

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@TuneTempest I pretty much agree, very good assessment, although I would switch 4 and 5.

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@Matt_Pinner Albert Lee

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@Murk441 Maud

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Like many others, thinking of Lee today, 32 years on. #leebrilleaux #drfeelgood

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12 months ago (6 April 2025) Blondie drummer Clem Burke sadly died.
Confirmation of the Feelgoods’ influence on the New York scene surfaced in 1999 when Gary Valentine wrote: Clem Burke went to London for a 6-week adventure. He brought back the first Dr Feelgood album...

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@LesPurves The one in the middle.

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@crockpics Why is the great Albert Lee always omitted from such lists? Maybe you’ve never heard him play the guitar.

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@TheExtremeMusi1 It goes to 11.

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Happy Birthday 2026 to Nick Lowe with this photo of he and his parents in Amman, Jordan in 1956 courtesy of the Lowe family archive. Yes, this picture does appear in ‘Cruel to Be Kind – The Life and Music of Nick Lowe’ (book 2019) #PLUg – 24 March

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@Mike_Batt For a moment I was going to rush to the defence of Frankie Valli…

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@TheExtremeMusi1 Polar opposites.

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@Paytress 80% great, why get rid of most?

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@LesPurves Up there.

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@RockNRoLL_85 Positively 4th Street

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@MbarkCherguia AI?

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@Carol4OliveFarm @Matt_Pinner All but 9 and 13.

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@StephenKing All but 9 and 13.