Thanks, SB. I’ll post here, if I find a copy.
Nick Cave used to live close to me in Brighton, and I would see him occasionally. He moved away to LA, after his son’s accidental death in a cliff fall.
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - All This Useless Beauty. Released in 1996, it consists of songs EC wrote (or co-wrote with others) with a view to other artists recording the songs. This release is EC & The Attractions’ versions of these songs.
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Hi Graham my copy of On The Boards was gifted to me, so an old copy.
A nice story given to me by a friend who got me into Rory Gallagher years ago and who’s father took him to see Rory play when he was 10 years old at Birmingham Odeon.
My friends father passed on 10 years ago and that album by Taste was his
So I felt honoured that he gave me his fathers copy
San Francisco has always been a tough old town, from the days when it was known as the Barbary Coast (1840s or so). It was just as wild and woolly in the Haight-Ashbury era. Peace and love and flowers in your hair wherever you went? I don’t think so.
Yes, homelessness and drugs are major issues in SF, as are the problems caused by fast bucks and greed. But go there when the sun is shining, stay out of the dodgy areas, and be sensible, and it’s one of the world’s great cities in the most spectacular setting.
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Seal has had 13 hit singles in the US alone (including two No. 1s), 10 monster-selling studio albums, four hit live albums, plus compilations. He’s still recording, his tours sell out all over the world, and he’s said to be worth about $40 million.
Hardly a flash in the pan who vanished after one hit.
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I agree. SF is a city I could live in.
Can’t remember if it was the first or second stay there but it was lovely and cold, despite the sun. For me, a plus. Just wish I hadn’t travelled from there through Louisiana, Alabama etc 
Give me dry desert heat anyday 
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Too many people just throw out a load of old tosh - well done a nice post.
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Now playing…
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Annie Lennox (Vocals, Oberheim OB-X Synthesizer, Piano) and David A. Stewart (Roland SH-101 Synthesizer, Movement Systems drum computer, programming).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… kicking off this Tuesday morning and dropping back to the 80’s with Annie’s fabulous vocals, and she and David have the toes tapping and body swaying this morning!
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That has the wonderful ‘A13, Trunk Road to the Sea’
OK all together now - to the tune of Route 66
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the okay road that’s the best
Go motorin’ on the A13
Well, if you’re looking for a thrill that’s new
Take in Fords, Dartford Tunnel and the river too
Go motorin’ on the A13
It starts down in Wapping
There ain’t no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend’s the end
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the okay road that’s the best
Go motorin’ on the A13
It starts down in Wapping
There ain’t no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend’s the end
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It does indeed, Hope its brought back some memories
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You said in March that you’d already purchased a copy.
Not according to the RAC and AA road atlas.
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