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What a song. Just starting a book about it. Always reminds me of Sunday mornings in Bush Court, Shepherds Bush when mum and dad got control of the stereogram and our came Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Dubliners, Dublin City Ramblers, Foster and Allen.....
There is a small section in the song which is a deadringer for Starman from David Bowie It took me a while to twig it. Wichita Lineman was out a few years before Ziggy Stardus so i can only assume Bowie picked it up and incorporated it into Starman
I used to work in the small market in the precinct 76 , don't remember a pub in there just the Galaxy Cinema and Bertorelli's restaurant and the Donut Diner street side
Oh and Homes Hamburger House a rip off of McD but it did no last long. maybe that was too early for you to remember.
The pub in the precinct was called The Trafalgar, the supermarket was called Liptons and then changed its name to Presto's.
Done a Texas road trip a while back, Houston to Galveston to Corpus Christi to Austin (home of SRV) then back to poxy Houston. Remembering Galveston as an anti war song always interested me but Galveston when we got there reminded me of Bournemouth but a whole heap warmer, so we didn't hang around. Austin on the other hand was disgustingly fecking brilliant, Sixth street on a Friday and Saturday night is the home of live music, awesome bars, debauchery, drugs, exhibitionists and all manner of naughty things including odd balls and weirdo's and a then a bit more debauchery and bad looking MOFO motor cycle gangs. Sadly like a prat I never got to visit the SRV grave and pay my respects.
Galveston in my opinion is Campbell's finest song although I don't believe he wrote it alone.
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My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
What a great thread this is: some lovely music chat, some cool Americana reminiscences by Ted, and a chance near-reunion between 2Thomas2Bowles and QPRxtc. I've no idea who they are talking about but I wish I'd met blonde Sharon on the 10th floor - pretty but nuts and owned a monkey, she sounds just my type and the right era.
It’s a song where the lyrics mean nothing but also everything. The tune carries it along on a sea of melancholy. It’s got a yearning about it that you can’t put your finger on but whisked you away in its current. Beautiful.
I agree Brian, I’d never ever have admitted to this twenty years ago. Thank god for getting older.
Just come to me that another one is Bowie's "Man Who Sold The World".
A lot of Bowie lyrics did that for me, due to having an older brother who was there for Ziggy Stardust. But I still wonder who was The Man Who Sold The World? "I thought you died a long long time ago?" "Oh, no, not me, I never lost control" - I bet he still hasn't, whoever he is, make your own guess.
What a great thread this is: some lovely music chat, some cool Americana reminiscences by Ted, and a chance near-reunion between 2Thomas2Bowles and QPRxtc. I've no idea who they are talking about but I wish I'd met blonde Sharon on the 10th floor - pretty but nuts and owned a monkey, she sounds just my type and the right era.
God I love QPR
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I have an old photobooth photo of Sharon, may post it later.
There is a small section in the song which is a deadringer for Starman from David Bowie It took me a while to twig it. Wichita Lineman was out a few years before Ziggy Stardus so i can only assume Bowie picked it up and incorporated it into Starman
No, The Trafalgar is now Belushi's, not in the precinct but on the side of Bush Court.
Liptons /Presto's is right.
No the pub in the precinct was definitely called the Trafalgar when it opened. May have changed its name later but can't remember. Belushi's was the Telegraph.
Another pub across the Green was the Wellington - has bands and strippers and watered down beer.
No the pub in the precinct was definitely called the Trafalgar when it opened. May have changed its name later but can't remember. Belushi's was the Telegraph.
Another pub across the Green was the Wellington - has bands and strippers and watered down beer.
I only realised just how much I love it when I heard this version, but the one you posted is still excellent:
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
JFC two pages in on a thread on Wichita Lineman and no mention of the song writer Jimmy Webb!
Also wrote Galveston, Up up and away, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, and ...
Sgt Pepper. Who are ya?
Spot on. Jimmy Webb's autobiography is worth a read (the first half anyway, until it drifts off into tedious reminiscences of being out on the p**s with Harry Nilsson.)
He was the son of an itinerant preacher in Oklahoma and learned to play the organ as a young kid. He worked on his grandfather's farm in the summer which is where he heard Glen Campbell for the first time. He was so struck by the voice that he drove a tractor into a tree. It was then he decided to go to LA and record a song with that man.
I'm deeply indebted to Messrs Webb and Campbell for all the times I've massacred their creation in karaoke bars . Still on the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!
I remember my brother going to see The Battle of Britain in that cinema in the precinct. Although, It could have been Aces High.
Yeah, Liptons was there next to it. The used to have green and yellow tiles on the ground leading from the escalators to Liptons that I always had to run along when being dragged in there by my Mum.
Bush Book was my favourite shop down there along with the darkest record shop in the world next to it.
The Trafalgar was a scary looking place as a kid and always seemed to have some sort of disturbance going on. It became a gay nightclub called Silks in later years and then The Opera on the Green. Don’t ever recall going in there but that doesn’t mean I didn’t There were some characters that went onto the AD from the flats. I remember we used to jump over the wall and onto the bridge that used to go from the Central Line station over to the precinct and run along it. They eventually had to put up fencing to stop us from killing ourselves.
If it’s the same Sharon we’re thinking of, she was very good looking but I don’t recall her monkey. I think there was also a dark haired Sharon. She was nice too.
And Jimmy Webb is a genius for writing The Wichita Lineman. And a good few others.
I remember my brother going to see The Battle of Britain in that cinema in the precinct. Although, It could have been Aces High.
Yeah, Liptons was there next to it. The used to have green and yellow tiles on the ground leading from the escalators to Liptons that I always had to run along when being dragged in there by my Mum.
Bush Book was my favourite shop down there along with the darkest record shop in the world next to it.
The Trafalgar was a scary looking place as a kid and always seemed to have some sort of disturbance going on. It became a gay nightclub called Silks in later years and then The Opera on the Green. Don’t ever recall going in there but that doesn’t mean I didn’t There were some characters that went onto the AD from the flats. I remember we used to jump over the wall and onto the bridge that used to go from the Central Line station over to the precinct and run along it. They eventually had to put up fencing to stop us from killing ourselves.
If it’s the same Sharon we’re thinking of, she was very good looking but I don’t recall her monkey. I think there was also a dark haired Sharon. She was nice too.
And Jimmy Webb is a genius for writing The Wichita Lineman. And a good few others.
Presumably the book you're reading is the Dylan Jones one. I've just finished it. Very good innit.
Saw Glen Campbell at The Lowry, Salford on his farewell tour. He was starting to get ill with dementia at that time which is why it was his final tour. He had a few of his kids in his band, they were doing most of the chat between songs. He had someone doubling up with him on some of the big lead guitar moments too. But when he let loose on a solo he was amazing. And the voice was as big and bright as it ever was. One of his daughters Ashley is an amazing banjo player too.
Midnight Cowboy reminded me of one my fave John Barry numbers (which was used in a shampoo ad back in the 70s or 80s.
I fell in love with it about 20 years ago, when i saw it performed live by the philharmonic and conducted by Barry at Albert Hall where he conducted his film scores (mostly). Hairs on the back of the neck when they peformed this, Space March and Midnight Cowboy particularly.
Mrs Crowe (the second) walked down the aisle to it at our wedding, not long after.
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Thanks for posting. 
