Derek is no longer playing with himself, he's gone to play with the angels.

I like the one he does with Mel C.

Mr Hodge is off on his travels, but he's left this list of his 50 all-time favourites (which of course he has already disowned):

• THE BAND The Band
  
• THE BEACH BOYS Pet sounds
  
• THE BEATLES Revolver
  
• BEULAH The coast is never clear
  
• BOBBY "BLUE" BLAND His California album
  
• THE BLUE NILE A walk across the rooftops
  
• JOHN CALE Paris 1919
  
• RAY CHARLES The definitive collection
  
• THE CLASH London calling
  
• SHAWN COLVIN Cover girl
  
• CULTURE Two sevens clash
  
• SANDY DENNY Like an old-fashioned waltz
  
• NICK DRAKE Bryter layter
  
• STEVE EARLE Transcendental blues
  
• THE FOUR TOPS The singles collection
  
• NANCI GRIFFITH The last of the true believers
  
• MERLE HAGGARD Lonesome Fugitive: the Anthology
  
• EMMYLOU HARRIS Pieces of the sky
  
• MIKE HERON Smiling men with bad reputations
  
• KELLY HOGAN Beneath the country underdog
  
• THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND Earthspan
  
• THE ISLEY BROTHERS 3+3
  
• MILLIE JACKSON Caught up/ Still caught up
  
• THE JAM All mod cons
  
• BERT JANSCH Three chord trick
  
• RICKIE LEE JONES Traffic from Paradise
  
• LITTLE FEAT Dixie chicken
  
• THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL The very best the Lovin' Spoonful
  
• DAVE MASON Alone together
  
• JONI MITCHELL Blue
  
• VAN MORRISON Tupelo honey
  
• VAN MORRISON Wavelength
  
• HEATHER MYLES Highways and honky tonks
  
• RANDY NEWMAN Lonely at the top
  
• LAURA NYRO The first songs
  
• DAN PENN Do right man
  
• THE POGUES Rum sodomy and the lash
  
• ELVIS PRESLEY From Elvis in Memphis
  
• CHARLIE RICH Feel like going home
  
• TOM RUSSELL Borderland
  
• THE SILVER JEWS Bright flight
  
• PERCY SLEDGE The very best of Percy Sledge
  
• GARY STEWART Out of hand/ Your place or mine
  
• JOE TEX The masters
  
• RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON I want to see the bright lights tonight
  
• BUNNY WAILER Protest
  
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS Car wheels on a gravel road
  
• BOBBY WOMACK The poet/ The poet II
  
• BETTY WRIGHT Danger high voltage/ This time its real
  
• X-RAY SPEX Germ free adolescents
  

Another Tube strike today. Took the free river boat service home. Last time it was rather pleasant, today it was crowded. It normally operates as a tourist cruise boat, and we were treated to a "humorous" commentary. Unfortunately it was the same commentary I got on way in this morning. The same, right down to the timing of the jokes. I can only suppose the poor bloke repeats this every day of the year for bemused tourists.

Balding Chris Martin continues his obsession with Bono.

Praise God in style of Bono. All together now..."In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda ......."

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