Brush With Disaster: The shot's vanished (at last check), but Nathan J. Hulse's Natjag photo blog a few weeks back had a candid he took of rehabbing singer and "real-time train wreck" (per the Toronto Star) Amy Winehouse on her way into legal proceedings in London... Will 2008 Be the Year of Joe Meek?: Filmmakers Howard Berger and Susan Stahman's years-in-the-making documentary on the rise and fall of Britain's first independent pop producer, A Life in the Death of Joe Meek, had its world premiere this week in Portland. One eyewitness review: "The film is wonderful, a well-balanced respectful multi-layered look at a fascinating person. I can't believe how much Joe Meek affected the sound of popular music, and how little I knew about him until tonight." Later this year, actor Nick Moran's Meek biopic Telstar debuts too. Hopefully, The Rapiers' cameo roles survive the editing room... January Blues: Sad farewells in the past fortnight to two golden voices of the '60s, Fortunes lead singer Rod Allen, and The Kingston Trio's John Stewart. Had I room for only 10 songs on a journey to the stars, You've Got Your Troubles and The New Frontier would make the cut. The first notes from the first group at my first concert on my first visit to English soil came from Rod's Fortunes, Christmas time 1988, Brighton.
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