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If you had your hands on the wheel you’d realise the road is wrapping around the edges in front of us, but you like the way the wheel is turning itself.

We’ve both agreed that ‘gay paris’ is sometimes relevant but that neither of us would ever say it.

White leather interiors and aqua exteriors up on the cliffs above the ocean, it’s a convertible and that’s even okay, ‘Danny Boy’ is playing now and that’s even okay cause Sam Cooke is singing…. Continue Reading…

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Chuck Berry’s ‘Twist’ is a greatest hits/cash in on the twist phenomenon record – which sounds like a recipe for a slow death, but in this case that couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead we find the best offerings from an artist that helped shape an entire genre all on the one record and in an order that feels like a natural track list progression rather than falling into the common trap of many best of’s wherein it becomes blatantly obvious that you aren’t listening to a purposeful album but to more of a scatter gun of material from different time periods and recording sessions that’s all aimed at the fair weather listener who just wants to hear the hits and not sit Continue Reading…