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[Dave_Mole]

good to see you acknowledge you were wrong

yet more wibble-wibble.
keep it up!
You're doing great work!

[Graham Breeze]

There were some smart guys in pop, I managed and worked on Roger Daltry's fish farms (for short periods of time), he was pretty business aware even though we could never get through to him that water would not run uphill - even for a pop star.

Maybe he had learnt from the terrible contract The Who signed with Shel Talmy (in one of my books: "a punitive contract") who placed them with American Decca so their British records came out on its British subsidiary Brunswick (a "perilous arrangement").

Eventually after three hits on Brunswick it all went to court, the Who settled and Talmy received 5% on all the records they made for other companies for the rest of the decade.

It is a truism that new signings get ripped off but some artists are more stupid than others. Van Morrison declined to read the contract he signed with Bert Berns (Bang Records) and learnt his lesson. He fell out with Berns (only with Berns?) but after Berns died of a congenital heart condition his widow looked at the contract and concluded that she had Van the Man by the "contractual short and curlies".

And so she had. Berns was a nasty piece of work, he had chosen his wife carefully and she was loyal to his memory.

[Derby Tup]

Never mind the contracts. What about Jimi in Ilkley? Where you there? Are there bootlegs?

[Dave_Mole]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/conten..._feature.shtml

There's a comment from a "Graham"
who says " I could go on for hours"....

[Derby Tup]

‘ Ilkley. Not exactly the capital of Rock 'n' Roll ‘

Surely some mistake

[Graham Breeze]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/conten..._feature.shtml

There's a comment from a "Graham"
who says " I could go on for hours"....

I used to go. I saw John Lee Hooker there.

The Troutbeck is now a Care Home

[Graham Breeze]

Interest in Pedantry in personnel management in the West York’s area, narrows identity down,I suspect To one. A Dylan fan is confirmation.

Mmmh. But didn't I see you in the Flying Duck in Ilkley?

[Oracle]

Mmmh. But didn't I see you in the Flying Duck in Ilkley?

Slumming it. The Angel at Hetton please!

[Flem]

But surely that is what makes the Forum so interesting?

Good post (even though I do say so myself)!

Although I knew the name Bobby Day I wasn't aware that I'd actually heard any of his singing so I've just had a pleasant bit of a session on YouTube. Thanks for steering me to that. I think Ain't Gonna Cry No More is my favourite, although it's a pity about the double-negative and the generally appalling grammar of the title. The use of the word "Ain't" is so vulgar.

[Flem]

I managed and worked on Roger Daltry's fish farms (

Didn't the Jethro Tull man (who's name escapes me at the moment) also have a fish farm? Was buying a fish farm the rock & roll equivalent of ex footballers buying a pub back in the day? (Although I know that Roger Daltrey hasn't retired!)

Does Roger Daltrey still have his fish farms, do you know, or did he give them all away when he was just a boy? (I know he didn't write that, but his version is better than Leo Sayer's.)