Wand'rin' Star
Fifty years ago, the dawn of the Seventies, the sound of spring on the British Hit Parade: There was rock (Canned Heat, "Let's Work Together"), soft rock (Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"), folk-rock (Judy Collins, "Both Sides Now"), pop (Steam, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"), session-group pop (Edison Lighthouse, "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"), Motown (Jackson Five, "I Want You Back"), country (Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, "All I Have to Do Is Dream"), all to one degree or another the soundtrack of the era. But the Number One bestselling record exactly half a century ago, the one that beat out all the above, was a two-decade-old showtune from a so-so forgotten musical revived for an embarrassingly awful flop film ... |
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Er, okay. Close enough for government work. What Browning actually wrote, in his poem about the painter Andrea del Sarto, was:
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan - the latest in our series Tales for Our Time, and a tale of globalist machinations in the run-up to the Great War. In tonight's episode, Edward Leithen finds himself at a rum restaurant in Fitzrovia... A Clubman's Notes'Tached Fine Fellow
Welcome to Part Six of The Power-House by John Buchan, a "shocker" that paved the way for his breakout bestseller The Thirty-Nine Steps... A Clubman's NotesThe Only Routes for Madmen
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Part Four of The Power-House, John Buchan's tale of civilization menaced by globalists. In tonight's episode, two gentlemen find themselves musing after dinner... A Clubman's NotesThe Man in the Library
Part Three of my serialization of The Power-House by John Buchan, a pre-war yarn from the twilight of Edwardian London... A Clubman's NotesBuchan and Bokhara
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