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May all in need on this #WorldMentalHealthDay or any other get that help.
Some past MH pieces from my back pages, on:
Self-harm aidanrad.blogspot.com/2017/0…
Slipping and sliding into Crisis aidanrad.blogspot.com/2015/0…
How talking's good but still needs so much more aidanrad.blogspot.com/2017/0…
Well, it was 65 years ago today Raymond Jones apparently went into Eppy's NEMS store in Liverpool to ask for "My Bonnie" and, less momentously, 30 years ago today this listener hurried to HMV in Birmingham to buy "Anthology 3" - ah, George's guitar here... youtu.be/fFuB_9zlqxk
Rest in probably seldom peace, Jerry Lee Lewis, four years ago today. Amid everything, glad to see him shake a leg at a piano at least on his last London date in 2015 (cf. aidanrad.blogspot.com/2015/0…) - and rock'n'roll doesn't get much fiercer than this... youtu.be/nFZ1-eAVCPg
"The ball is a diamond. If you have something that precious, you don't get rid of it - you offer it." Well, it was 69 years ago today: born was the king of White Hart Lane. "Hoddle a luxury? It’s the bad players who are a luxury." youtu.be/qZ9qZCrlZ_w metro.co.uk/2012/03/26/glenn…
Born 94 years ago today, Sylvia Plath. Beautifully-ferocious poetry, yet always come back to this: prose's pain and honesty, yet wit and hope - pathos and bathos, if before a sadder real-life rather than wistfully-fictional ending. (cf. aidanrad.blogspot.com/2017/0…)
Curse you, Spurs, for not quite winning a trophy with Harry Kane, somehow, though we do have all the goals and memories which do actually matter too. A finisher, a playmaker, an all-rounder in all ways and ambassador for clubs and country. Give us him back, won't you, Bayern...?
"Whose name...is Harry Kane?" Congrats to France Football's European Footballer of the Year, sorry, Ballon d'Or winner - a majestic "one of our own". Always knew he would, right from winning a pen vs Hearts in the first 10mins of his WHL debut. England's (and Tottenham's) finest.
🎶"At sunset, I laugh
Sunrise, I cry
At midnight I'm in between and I'm wondering why..."🎶
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All together now (all together now): 🎶"Can we play you, can we play you, can we play you every week - can we play you every week?"🎶 Come *on*, you super Spurs. One team came to play football, hosts just came to kick. Lovely to see all click even after injuries. Tel, star. #COYS
And for our next hymn, the choir would like to sing: 🎶"It's so easy, it's so easy, it's so easy at the Bridge..."🎶 #COYS
Pity's sake, just as Madders was running the game he gets broken again. See you next season. Maybe. #COYS
Nippy and intricate football from Tottenham in that first half, despite the conditions. (Play, Macca: "My skin's soaked right through to the skin.") Replay, pity about the lack of cutting edge finishing - curse that transfer window, while Marmoush should've made it 1-0. Hm. #COYS
The Sir Bill Nicholson way: "We shall go on playing football as we know it; we shall go on working to perfect the quality of our play; and we hope in the process to go on serving up first-class entertainment." The glory-gloriest. #COYS youtu.be/raTQiaULC9c
"I close my eyes - and this is yesterday..." As @manics release 2014 performances of "The Holy Bible" at the Roundhouse, fondly recall, and JDB sorry for having a cold. "Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind." Past piece, way back then... aidanrad.blogspot.com/2014/1…
Manic Street Preachers announce ‘The Holy Bible Live’, out 23rd October 2026.
In 2014, to mark 20 years since the release of ‘The Holy Bible’, the band embarked on a sold-out tour performing the album in full. ‘The Holy Bible Live’ captures the record performed at London’s Roundhouse during that tour.
Available in Deluxe, 2LP Blue Marble, CD & Blu-Ray, and Digital formats.
Pre-order ‘The Holy Bible Live’: manicstreetpreachers.lnk.to/…