Stuart Penney
@StuartPenney1
"Your blog is genuinely one of the most fantastic things on the internet Stuart" - Danny Baker. My blog - And Now It's All This...
New blog post today: Peculiar Records With Interesting Sleeves: andnowitsallthis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-gall…
Christmas 1965, looks like HMV Oxford Street. On the wall: Beatles Rubber Soul Sound of Music Beatles Help Mary Poppins Seekers World Of Our Own Who My Generation Joan Baez Farewell Angelina Andy Williams Dear Heart Robert & Elizabeth Joan Baez-S/T Beach Boys-Little Deuce Coupe
How about a photo of Victor Spinetti and Barbara Windsor in Charing Cross Road. Victor appeared in all three #Beatles films, he was also on their 1967 Christmas record and Paul McCartney's "London Town" video.
When you hear the chap with a huge hole in his earlobe asking the bartender for a 'Charred Pineapple Mojito'
Trad jazz fans may remember sax player Bruce Turner. As well as his own band, he played with Humphrey Lyttelton, Freddy Randall, Big Bill Broonzy, Lol Coxhill, Ewan MacColl, Lonnie Donegan etc. 60 years ago I saw him play in #Sheffield
British Blues Boom album #1. Read all about it here. #BeanoAlbum #JohnMayall #EricClapton #Blues andnowitsallthis.blogspot.com/2022/01/woke-u…
How about a 1969 Apple/Walls Ice Cream promo EP (including James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, The Iveys & Jackie Lomax) for 6s/6d (32½p) or a Tony Blackburn coat hanger for 9s/6d (47½) (available mail order, plus three ice cream wrappers).
Alan Aldridge gave us many wonderful book and record covers, but this has to be one of my favourites #PenguinBooks #JohnLennon #Beatles
Let's revisit the interview where Beatle George makes an unfortunate comment. Well, it was 1968.
Farewell to the great Dave Cousins, seen here (centre) on the back cover of the 1970 #Strawbs LP "Just A Collection of Antiques & Curios." Rick Wakeman is second right. Fag packets and lighters/matches on the pub table, of course.
Big band vocalist Carole Carr was the first singer to appear on British TV when it resumed after WWII and also the first to appear on colour TV test broadcasts in Britain in 1957. Here she is in Hollywood in 1959 with a couple of Triumph TR3s @Rockstarscars @Superstar_Cars
You can never have too many copies of Blonde on Blonde. All original, all different. Release dates differ from May 1966 in the US to June or even August 1966 in UK. #BobDylan
May 1983 and the News Of The World colour supplement was asking the big questions #Bowie
“Cheeky greengrocer”? Does that mean all the apostrophes were in the wrong place on his job application?
The poster with the Faces' 1971 LP A Nod's As Good As A Wink was considered obscene in the US.
Parlophone New Zealand, you had one job #RomanNumerals #Beatles
