Art in the Churches
I was up in North Yorkshire last week hoping to walk the fells around Hubberholme and Yockenthwaite in upper Langstrothdale as I had done the year before. Sadly this year… Read More →
Dave and Vince
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- by rich@rdevans.com
I’ve loved the work of Vincent Van Gogh pretty much all of my life. I discovered very early on that I share a birthday with him, 30 March, which somehow… Read More →
A happy wayzgoose to you
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Those lovely young women who publish Slightly Foxed, the quarterly journal for the ‘real reader’, wrote in their e-blast the other day about them taking a few days off to… Read More →
When Derek and Paul met Harrold
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Derek Taylor was the press officer for The Beatles in 1964 and toured with them on their first visit to America, later working for their organisation Apple Corps in London.… Read More →
Record Store Day 2018
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Record Store Day began back in 2007 as an annual event held on one Saturday in April each year to, quote, ‘celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store’.… Read More →
A new live album for The Who
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- Tags: 1968, Album covers, Bob Pridden, Dippity-Do, Hipgnosis, Kit Lambert, Linda Eastman, Linda McCartney, Live at the Fillmore East, Meddle, Pink Floyd, Richard Evans, The Who •
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Fifty years after the event, today sees the release of a live recording of The Who in concert on 6 April 1968 at the Fillmore East in New York City.… Read More →
Please give this little fellow a warm welcome
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It’s his first day . . .
It’s a boy, Mr Daltrey, it’s a boy!
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With Pete Townshend taking a year’s sabbatical from any performing, it’s up to Roger Daltrey to keep the Who banner flying and as Roger says, he has to keep singing… Read More →
The National Gallery’s Christmas Pudding
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I’m certainly not the first person to have discovered Boris Anrep and I most certainly won’t be the last. Many of us discover him in exactly the same way –… Read More →
Jansson and Johns
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I was never really a big fan of the Moomins, a cursory glance at the comic strip which used to be featured in the London Evening Standard. It all looked… Read More →