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October 2006 issue 1

Parishioner Kirby: While wondering if anyone had actually listened to Another Girl Another Planet before suggesting that it be used to advertise mobile phones, it struck me there should be a list of records (and songs) that should not be allowed to be used on adverts, in the same way that the BBC has a list of protected sports events that can't be sold to satellite tv and there is a list of animals that can't be shot there ought to be a list of protected songs - either because they are too good or too precious or because it'd just be wrong.

Parishioner Craig: A few years back, myself and my wife were in Pizza Hut Brighton grabbing something to eat before attending a gig at the Brighton Centre. To my left, I was astounded to see one Snowy White and friend tucking into a large Hawaiian. Fast forward about ten years to the Pizza Hut at Ashfords Eureka Leisure Park. There, with his family almost unnoticed was non-other than... Gary Moore, again tucking into a large Hawaiian. I kid you not. Anyone else seen any other members of Thin Lizzy in a Pizza Hut?

The Vicar's Amazing Pop Facts

Q: When the Minipops did their Abba medley, which tune did they begin with?

A: "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight". It's a fact.

Parishioner Skirky: Reading recently about Robyn Hitchcock once having a mobile recording studio parked outside his house in order to complete an album at home led me to musing upon Deep Purple's similar experience in Montreux with The Rolling Truck Stones Mobile parked just outside, and making their music there as immortalised (of course) in Smoke On The Water. Ignoring that in some circles it's considered just plain lazy to turn up to a session without actually having written the songs in advance it occurred to me that I'd just naturally referred to the recording facility as "The Rolling Truck Stones Mobile", even though that doesn't make any sense.... Surely it's the "Rolling Stones Mobile Truck"? Was it just a mistake they couldn't be bothered to correct? Was the lyric changed around so that the words scan better? That Mike Scott's another one. In "This Is The Sea" he can clearly be heard exhulting "..it's yours if you want it / You got still enough time!". 'Got still enough time'? What are you blithering on about man? Or is it just me? Yes, it is a quiet day at the office since you mention it....

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