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No, he went home yesterdie. (Works for me, I'm a Brummie)

Will the cardinals be welcomed to the conclave by somebody standing up and saying "Greetings, Pope Pickers" Yeah that's my coat

Tom Good was bang into recycling... watch out for those beefburgers & kebabs next month

I think you are getting the 1960s mixed up with the 1990s, which is an understandable mistake seeing as it was a replay of it in many respects. It's that bit I don't get. I could be wrong, but I get the funny feeling you are under 30 years old. Who were these "traditionally appealing" bands in 1963/4? Trad jazz? Skiffle? Balladeers like Sinatra? Elvis? The Beatles were no doubt overrated but their impact on music for good or ill was pervasive. To dismiss that is to cut off your nose to spite your face. The Beatles were an influence on Glam Rock for instance (listen to Roxy Music's opener from their debut album and it's a rip off of 'Daytripper' from 1965. Bowie pretty much stole McCartney's DESH style music on stuff like "Changes") who were in turn an influence on Nick Cave. The very notion of a band or artist using the album format, complete with "concept" (such as cover art, themes and contemporary reference) was one the Beatles were at the forefront of in the 1960s, with albums such as 'Revolver' and 'Sgt. Pepper'. Don't sound much like 1 Direction to me. They were indeed the "boyband" of their day, but that was then, a very different pop landscape. This argument smacks of the kind of naive, elitist tight-arseness I long abandoned as I've got older...

Funnily enough, Richard Briers was on record as saying he disliked his character, Tom Good. But he played him so charismatically. Interestingly, his later character of Martin in 'Ever Decreasing Circles', might be on the surface a more sympathetic character (he couldn't really help being what he was), but Briers plays him very unsympathetically. Very good actor, Briers so I shall miss him. And of course he was Rhoobarb and Custard as well and if that doesn't guarantee immortality, nothing will!

Ever Deceasing Circles...

I had a look through this comment I made...2006?... surely not. I thought the other day about the aforementioned chap that lent me the book and as I recollected he had died about three years ago. It was a shock to realise that it was eight years. Tempus fugit. I've kept shtum for seven years, can't any more. The Germans lose in the end.

I rip the piss out of my 15 year old for liking One Direction, but actually, seeing her so piss-pantingly excited at going to see them in a few weeks time fills me with joy. Judge me if you will, but she feels the same about that as I used to feel going to see Guns N Roses at Wembley when I was a teenager, and how I feel nowadays going to see the Foo Fighters or Robbie Williams (yes, laugh, I don't care). I fucking love it, and scream and shout and sing my head off for a couple of hours, and if she can feel the same excitement about a bunch of floppy haired pillocks, then who am I to argue?

Like with many bands that have made it big, they were in the right place at the right time. There are several bands out there that can fill stadiums and I think to myself "How the hell does this crap sell"? For the first possibly 4-5 years, The Beatles were what you could call bubble-gum pop.band but then they managed to break away from that and write more imaginative songs. maybe the drugs helped form that, but that's what they did. I like Nick Cave too. I enjoy his lyrics and his style and I believe I'm missing just one or two of his albums to complete my collection. I've even gone to a couple of his concerts and one at the Royal Festival Hall is on my top 20 concerts that I've been to. Partly because it was a good concert and also that he managed to get Kylie Minouge up on stage to sing Murder Ballads and then afterwards had her recite the lyrics to Better The Devil You Know. This debate about who is good and who isn't reminds me of a conversation Leonard Cohen had with his manager as he was being driven to his first performance. Cohen said to his manager "I don't know what I'm doing here, I can't even sing". His manager turned to him and said "None of you guys can sing. If I want to hear a singer, I go to the opera".

Kudos for dropping in the word ''cachet'' into a reply

Can we please forget about that. That was about the Nadir of Doctor Who. (Exempting David Tennant and the TV Movie) By all means. I thought McCoy wasn't bad - a return of the eccentricity missing from Colin Baker's stint. The casting of Bonnie Langford (in anything) though, is unforgivable.

Paul McCartney did not make his money from the Beatles - all the Beatles money got given away which is one of the reasons the band broke up. The sad fact is that Paul's money came from Wings and his solo stuff which some people consider to be commercialist crap. However, a lot of people enjoyed it and paid money for it. I for one do not begrudge Paul his success, he himself recognises that he has been fortunate and he has not really 'worked' to make his money. The Beatles are important but music is a matter of taste. You might look down your nose at all the 12 year old girls spending their money downloading songs by Justin Bieber, 1D, the Wanted or any of the othe manufactured choirs but what makes your purchases more important than their's.

The only place I have ever seen her mentioned is here on DL.

Ever Decreasing Consciousness

Doubt we'll ever see a more predictable suicide That said, not predictable enough for her to get onto my DDP team...

And a fortnight later he's gone. 2012 : Smokin' & coughin' 2013 : Smokin' in a coffin

They were so bad that they inspired more than one generation of kids to go and form bands like Oasis. Oscar Wilde died peniless because he was from an earlier time. Im pretty sure, legalities or not, had he been around a the time of the swinging 60s, his influence on British culture would have been such that he would have died a very rich man indeed. Possibly.

It is CA, its so much easier to drift than to try and power yourself forwards against that constant flow. Fuck it, i say, whats the worst that can happen? We Live, we breathe, we stop breathing, we die. Nowt complicated in that, right?

That report is nearly a year old you twat.