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With a ladder and some glasses.


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My trips to Soho are increasingly rare, and increasingly depressing, these days, but good to see Gerry's is still going strong, and as sarky as ever.

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You and Me always seemed to enjoy its own status as neither a full-on classroom teaching aid nor Children's BBC entertainment "joint". Thanks largely to that Alice and Crow disclaimer.

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I think the guy who did the Blondie drubbing went into A&R, which is the other main route for ex-music press folk.

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Mond you, the Mac get off lightly. In the same issue there's a review of Blondie's Eat to the Beat, and that does *not* go down well at all.

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That one may be the second most seen schools' programme. (Most seen has to be the Music Arcade Doctor Who theme sent.)

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(The Ten-ty-Two Days of Leapfrog, rather.)

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Shown on BBC1 on Christmas morning in 1980. A schools programme! On Christmas day! Watch was in the Big League. You never had The Twelve Days of Leapfrog.

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The actual review's just lukewarm, judging the Stevie Nicks tracks as the only good ones and complaining about the over-elaborate sleeve design.

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It's just the headline rather than the body copy itself, but in 1979 Record Mirror printed one of the great one-word bad reviews of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk: "Tsk."

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