Monday 13 July 2009

Goodbye Piccadilly

"Postcard London I have grown to hate. Brings back memories from years ago. Like spending New Year's Eve on the steps of the Tate without a friend in the whole wide world." Edward Ball gives a whole new meaning to swinging London on The Times' Goodbye Piccadilly. It's interesting. For all the Television Personalities/Times fascination with having a smashing time helping Patrick McGoohan escape from Syd Barrett's garden party there was always a very dark heart beating. This was particularly evident on The Times' This Is London LP. The title track of which went like this ...



2 comments:

  1. http://thesongsthatpeoplesing.blogspot.com/2008/08/times-this-is-london.html

    Great little blog!

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  2. Thanks Simon. Have you seen Edward's Artpop channel on YouTube? Some lovely things on there.

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