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I like to talk about music ❤️

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Kraftwerk's live television debut, 1970 (or, mere months after Woodstock, Kraftwerk invent the future 🙏)
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Julian and I were married in Lichfield 38 years ago today ❤️❤️❤️ Here we are celebrating afterwards at the Benedictine Priory ruins in Alvecote near Tamworth. ❤️❤️❤️
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39 years ago today I went to see the Teardrop Explodes in Albany, New York. And I met the love of my life. ❤️❤️❤️ 39 years!!!!!
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Radical, demented and catchy AF The Monks – Monk Chant, Beat Club 1966
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I've advised Julian to retrain as Prime Minister.
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Julian and me, exactly 35 years ago, after we got married in Lichfield ❤️
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40 years ago, I drove from NYC to Albany to see the Teardrop Explodes and met the love of my life. 40 YEARS!!! Here’s Julian and me at our Big Fat Greek Wedding (which was the second time we were wed; there have been three times and there will likely/hopefully be more). ❤️❤️❤️
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I just witnessed a young man who works at a garage being verbally abused by a racist customer. I tried to think of a polite way to put the middle-aged white male racist in his place, but sadly couldn't think of anything. So I told him not to be such a fucking cunt.
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Julian and I got married (for the first time) 37 years ago today ❤️❤️❤️
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My belovèd and incredible mother is 95 today. Here's one of my favourite pictures of her, taken in 1945 when she was 18.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit (live) on the Smother Brothers show, 1967. Oh, Grace ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Suicide opening for The Cars at the Boston Garden, 1980. The Cars' hometown audience does not appreciate the greatness of Suicide. Alan Vega is not intimidated.
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Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1978) Tina ❤️
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Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (French TV, 1978)
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43 years ago today ❤️❤️❤️
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39 years ago today I went to see the Teardrop Explodes in Albany, New York. And I met the love of my life. ❤️❤️❤️ 39 years!!!!!
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The Beat – Save It For Later What a song ❤️❤️❤️
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? and the Mysterians inventing the sound of the future in 1966 with 96 Tears (the song was, remarkably, written in 1962)
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The Supremes skipping through the streets of Paris, asking the big question: Where Did Our Love Go ❤️❤️❤️ Rare promo film from 1965. The scene with the angry gendarme at the end was genuine (they filmed without receiving the required permission)
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Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me 👌❤️
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Sly & the Family Stone live in all their inventive glory on Say Brother TV show (1969?). A bunch of kids start dancing as the credits roll... oh man, this whole clip is absolutely euphoric. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Back in '68 in a swe-ea-ty club Dexys Midnight Runners – Geno – Top of the Pops 1980
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Here she comes, you better watch your step! Nico, Lou Reed & John Cale performing Femme Fatale at Le Bataclan, Paris, 29 January 1972 ❤️
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The almighty Funkadelic tripping around Manhattan for their 1973 promo vid of Cosmic Slop. Totally out-there and totally Funkadelic 💯
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do On the beach, Cannes, 1968 Safe as Milk and Cool as Fuck 😎
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s with a storming live version of Green Onions – Norway 1967 Stax/Volt Revue tour of Europe 🔥💯👌
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Mr James Brown – making the best entrance EVER – performs Out of Sight on the TAMI show (1964) 🔥🙏💯❤️
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I haven't seen my timeline united like this for a very long time in the sharing of emotions, love, respect and gratitude for one of our finest. RIP Terry Hall.
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Thank fuck for music, right? (Pt 2) Julian totally blew my mind this morning with a song I'd never heard before. I honestly don't know how I missed it because it couldn't be more my thing 😳 But I'm here now and it was Big Big Love at first listen. The Saints – Know Your Product
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60 today - it feels great 😀 Here I am Xmas 1962, ignoring the toys in favour of albums. And so it would remain 👍
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Nico would have been 82 today
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Glastonbury Tor, half-an-hour ago. I’m windswept and happy ❤️
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Steve Marriott checked out 29 years ago today. No words for how much I love him. 1960s pop perfection from The Small Faces – Tin Solder (which would get my vote for best single ever). ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid Top of the Pops 1970. I love this. The audience dances along happily as if the very fabric of RnR is not changing right in front of them. 0:48-0:58 is particularly good.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Love in a Void (Something Else, 1979, feat R. Smith on guitar) ❤️
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4 years
Well I’ve been feeling pretty fucked up lately. But today Julian and I ate lunch in our back garden (hot jacket potatoes wrapped in foil), watched birds and talked about No Wave. It was very good. Sending love to all. Xxx
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One of those albums that you’ve played hundreds and hundreds of times and then somehow years go by without hearing it until you randomly decide to play it and you're utterly blown away and Fall In Love All Over Again.
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Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band performing Electricity on Cannes beach, January 1968 ❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you for all the birthday wishes for Julian. I've had the pleasure of celebrating his birthdays with him for the past 39 years (😮) and today's was a good one! Love to all and we hope you're keeping safe and sane. ❤️❤️❤️
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The Small Faces with a storming version of Watcha Gonna Do About It, 1966. Steve Marriott's vocals = ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (Robert Plant clearly thought so, too)
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Tubeway Army with a great performance of Are 'Friends' Electric? 1979 Old Grey Whistle Test The whole excellent vid is here
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The Sugar Hill Gang – Rapper's Delight (Soul Train, 1979) 🔥💯👌
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Julian just reminded me that today - 15 November – is the 45th anniversary of the formation of the Teardrop Explodes, as well as exactly 41 years since they split.
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Roxy Music with a très cool version of Pyjamarama, Musikladen 1974 ❤️🙏👌
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1964, and there are proto-post-punk sounds going on here (obviously not the vocals). The Honeycombs – Have I The Right?
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I just told Julian that The Eagles' Greatest Hits is the best-selling album of all-time. His response: "People must really hate music."
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Can – Vitamin C (live c.1972/3) 🙏
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#MeAt20 In a dressing room somewhere in England, on the Teardrop Explodes final tour (pic by @KCMANC )
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We were driving back home from Glasgow two years ago today when we heard the tragic news about Andrew Weatherall. What a loss to all of us.💔 Here's Julian with the Guv'nor
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This has just brought the biggest smile to my face and comfort to my heart ❤️ The Beatles – All My Loving (LIVE! – Morecambe & Wise show. Those Paul & George harmonies at 1:18 = 💯❤️😍 )
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Who doesn't love Low Rider? AND War made a totally cool promo film for it in 1975. Take a little trip with me ❤️👌💯
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Kraftwerk - Köln II (German tv show Okie Dokie, 1971) 🙏🙏🙏 (Or, Neu!werk 😎)
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The 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me. The quality of the vid isn't the greatest, but that just adds to their incredible mystery and mythology IMHO
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The Green Manalishi is so easily the best song by Fleetwood Mac ever, and I don't care what anyone says. Goodnight, Peter Green. 💔💔💔
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Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile David Bowie – Jean Genie – Top of the Pops live, January 1973 ❤️❤️❤️ #VoteTheToriesOut
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? And The Mysterians – 96 Tears (Where The Action Is October 1966) ❤️❤️🤩❤️❤️
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Ian Curtis Forever ❤️❤️❤️
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The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night. First released in 1966 but – as the opening track of Lenny Kaye's Nuggets – found a whole new audience, me included 🙏❤️🙏
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"Love one another" – George Harrison's final words, 19 years ago today
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The Left Banke on Where the Action Is (1966) with the sublime Walk Away Renée. Everything about this song is 10/10 💕
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I might be married to him, but I am and always have been a Super Fan of his. Friar Tuck is poignant, provocative & playful. And a catchy bastard. There's no one like him ❤️❤️❤️
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New Julian Cope album – FRIAR TUCK – available now!
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My incredible & still-beautiful mother is 94 today (here we are in 1962). She was a librarian & gave me my love of books – including the H. Davies’ Beatles bio in ’68, which sent me down another path. She is in NY & I haven’t seen her for over a year now. I’m missing her horribly
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Peggy Suicide was released on this day 1991. ❤️❤️❤️ (With thanks to @joeyx666 for the reminder!)
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I see #1984IsHere is trending. Good times ❤️
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Roxy Music with an epic version of Re-Make/Re-Model, Musikladen 1973. Oooomph yeah
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Dusty Springfield – I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself ❤️❤️❤️
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Julian and I met 38 years ago when the Teardrop Explodes played at JB Scotts in Albany, New York. We celebrated our anniversary exploring the beautiful Somerset Levels. Despite these difficult & uncertain times, I'm so happy I ended up in this country. ❤️
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I'd never heard/seen this until the other day when Julian played it for me and, well, I'm in love. The Sorrows – Take A Heart (1966) ❤️❤️❤️
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Happy New Year and good vibrations from the Family Cope, high atop the Wessex Downs. ❤️❤️❤️
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And speaking of Black Sabbath, I’d completely forgotten until Julian reminded me this morning that Tony Iommi was in Jethro Tull for 2 weeks in 1968 – just in time for their appearance at the Rolling Stones RnR Circus. Here they are – Song for Jeffrey
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Hello from Wessex. Julian and I extend all the love and positive thoughts that we can generate. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ❤️❤️❤️
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Boris Johnson, under genuine pressure to resign, is bumped from headlines by the Prince Andrew civil sex assault case. That's some uniquely British fucked up shit.
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Sly and the Family Stone - Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin (Dick Cavett Show, 1970) 🔥🔥🔥 Sly was apparently ill, and still he slays the live vocals. No one like them ever and never will there ever be. The whole funking thing is here:
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20 years ago, this was published. ❤️❤️❤️
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Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me live (Rockpalast, October 1980) ❤️❤️❤️
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