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He was also a great modern jazz player, here he is the Shelly Mann

The Real Britannia by Colin Brown. "Our ten proudest years, the glory and the spin." So far we've had Magna Carta, the Spanish Armada, the Glorious Revolution and Waterloo myths all debunked. Quite good if you're an iconoclast.

Jools Holland and Dr John to a direct lift from Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Exciting stuff

Louis's version of St James Infirmary is brilliant, but this is pretty good. Tom Jones has a great blues voice. Wasted at his peak in Vegas

Louis was great. The whole of jazz, blues r&b music owes him a huge debt. His cornet riff in Dippermouth Blues is the basis for much of what followed.

Always been a Chuck Berry fan, but this version's better than his

Meanwhile BBC4 offered a double helping of the Two Ronnies. Nuff said. But followed it with the history of Fairytale in New York. With Kirsty. very interesting. Shane McGowan was his usual obnoxious self, but Kirsty was wonderful as usual.

shame to do that to Blackbush. First time I had it was in Westport. Recommended as Guiness with Bushmills chaser, fatal!

Sicking to Blackbush and Bushmills 10 year old single malt. Much prefer Bushmills to any scotch.

We went to a birthday party for her in Soho Square about 10 years ago. It was very moving.

Started here in beautiful uptown Dewsbury about 20 minutes ago. Looks like the real thing

BTW who's the backing singer in the yellow. My last post should be a clue. I didn't know about this until last week.

Billy Bragg wrote it, but even he says this is a better version

My wife prefers the Animals's version, so do I, I also prefer the Sam Cooke version. The Animals version has this on the B side, on of my favourites of theirs.

I saw her standing there! Only 55 years old!

Looking round ASDA by the sound of it. BTW there's still a Gibbet Street in 'Fax.

The Serpent's Promise (the Bible retold as science) by Professor Steve Jones. A fascinating read by a fascinating man.

Emmylou Harris singing Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell. I'm not a country music fan normally, but I must say her version is better than Berry's. Brilliant.

Since the imposition of "the diet" (I've lost a stone since Xmas) my choices are a bit restricted, but one thing I've come to really like is mackerel fillets, fried in the one cal. spray oil. Really tasty. I'm having them for lunch today.

Fair comment. But this thread is about the history of the game so given that it grew out of Union you're bound to get some references to it.

Nevertheless, the extraordinary general meeting in 1893 to discuss broken time, must have taken place. And the fact that the majority of the clubs voted against broken time payments, can't have helped matters. But there must have been some ambivalence to the Northern clubs. After all the England captain was Dickie Lockwood, who played for Heckmondwike and had been accused of professionalism. IN 1890 England even played an international against Wales at Crown Flatt Dewsbury. Presumably there was some sympathy for the problems confronting the Lancashire and Yorkshire clubs. Perhaps they hoped for a compromise, we weren't there, we don't know. But what's happened re Brexit in our own time shows that once the zealots have the bit between their teeth there's no stopping them. They cut off their nose to spite their face, and effectively destroyed England as a force in the game for a generation.

Funny that, I was watching a video of Fev at Swinton, who play at Sale RU and noticed the signs say Sale FC.

Forth biggest crowd in the country on Saturday.

All this is very interesting. And if you say broken time was a red herring introduced by the RFU, I'm prepared to accept it. But it begs the question, why was the RFU so against league and cup comps, when the rest of sport were adopting it. Even cricket, of all sports closest in culture (in a public school kind of way) to Rugby Union had its County Championship and local leagues (the Bradford League dates from 1903) And why the likes of the Rev Frank Marshall went about trying to sniff out professionalism and persecuting those he found guilty of it (Dickie Lockwood say.)