scylla
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JP first attempt on Instagram (date unknown). God bless him
That looks like a painting... isn't it? Do we know who it's by?
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Good question. If he wants that much square footage he should probably look for a property in one of the outer boroughs or even outside Greater London.
He should head for Bishop's Avenue, natural home of those with a hell of a lot of money and no taste at all.
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It was, and he got a good deal on it because it had become bomb-damaged during WWII.
So I see - £2000, unbelievable.
What seems even more unbelievable is that the Tower House sold for £75,000 in 1970 and then for £350,000 just two years later - is that possible?
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Tower House is beautiful inside and out. And Williams place if I remember rightly was built by Michael Winners father and is also very magnificent and already has and indoor pool that Williams wants to increase. To my knowledge Williams has not slept there a single night since he bought it and why he wants a recording studio when he sings like someone whose tone deaf god knows. That area is very strict with the planning, you even have to have planning permission to crop the trees. So hopefully the permission will be thrown in his face and he'll be told where to go...Back to LA.
It might have been bought by Winner's father, but it was originally commissioned by artist Luke Fildes in the 1870s. It's not as significant as the Tower House (which has one of the most important interiors in London), but it's a historic building which shouldn't be mucked about with any more than it already has been.
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Is this the poet referenced in today's OTD? Jimmy goes public with his lady friend...sort of, possibly...
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All these pictures of him wearing various jackets with scarves, and gaps in his teeth, are from the A.R.M.S. tour. He was in terrible shape. The youtube videos from some of these shows are painful to watch.
From Michael Palin's diaries (20 Sept 1983):
"I am tempted by a phone call from Ray Cooper to attend the first of a two-night concert in aid of Multiple Sclerosis, in which many great rock stars of the '60's, all friends of Ronnie Lane who has MS, will be appearing, including Ray C.
[…] even Ray is upstaged by the extraordinary appearance of Jimmy Page, who weaves his way around the stage like a man who has been frozen in the last stages of drunkenness, before actually falling over. He sways, reels, totters, bends, but still manages to play superbly.
The others look on anxiously and Ray tells me at the end that Page isn't well. And he lives in Aleister Crowley's house.”
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The Pet Shop Boys' "Always On My Mind". Can't think of anything else that's so transformed by a cover it sounds like something from an entirely different genre.
Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower".
Nina Simone's "Suzanne" and "Just Like A Woman".
Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah".
Tricky's "Black Steel".
Marianne Faithfull's "Twentieth Century Blues".
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The Dark Stuff by Nick Kent. I'm only up to the bit on Syd Barrett but there's a reference to De Lane Lea studios - is that what the Yardbirds' "De Lane Lea Lee" is about? (I never had the faintest idea what it was about).
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The last few eps of Masters of Sex (season 2). Really fascinating show that started off being about two people doing a study on human sexuality and ended up being this really wide-ranging thing about US society in the fifties and sixties. Without being all sort of costume-drama and "Hey, look at these weird alien people and the crazy things they believed... but look how cool the clothes are!". It' not perfect, but it's been really different and interesting. Roll on season 3, and kudos to whoever commissioned it. I can't think of anything comparable, where there's been such a long-running series that was based on actual people and events. Plus Michael Sheen is just the best British actor of his generation, and Lizzy Caplan is so brilliant as Virginia Johnson. And created and mostly written by women!
Plugs the gap until we get the last eps of Mad Men, anyway...
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So.... I can't post pics from Photobucket because when I paste the URL into the "image properties" box and click "OK", nothing happens. And every time I click on "new content" (for a couple of days now), it tells me "no new content found".
Is there anyone else who's having these issues? Or knows how to fix them?
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Two tidbits from two books: Robert Plant, A Life and Led Zeppelin, An Oral History and one pic.
Three days and nights?! Bloody hell. I'd read the second extract before but it made it sound like it was a pretty brief thing. That's actually horrifying. And, as that writer comments, might well explain a lot.
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What a fabulous photo edit Scylla ... can't help but think of the painstaking time Jimmy took to work on his book .. and you've pulled this lot together in no time !
I had a "favourite live pics" folder all ready-made.
I bet Jimmy really enjoyed the whole process. Hell, I would, if I used to look like that. Wouldn't it be a dream job though? When I was ill and bedbound I spent more hours than I'd like to count collecting and categorizing Zep pics - like it mattered, like I was getting paid for it - and time just flew. I'd love to be a picture editor.
I was trying to decide which is the best ever Jimmy-on-stage pic - the one they should use on his obituary. I reckon this one (I think it'd have to involve a dragon suit and the double neck...). The original guitar god in full flight:
What would everyone else pick as the "definitive" Jimmy shot?
If I was choosing from offstage pics I'd go for
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I think that's the incident in 1973, where it was put about that he'd caught it in a fence at LA airport whilst greeting fans. Although if I remember correctly, Morgana Welch in Hollywood Diaries claims that this was a lie and it actually happened when she and some fellow groupies threw him in the pool on the Riot House roof.