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John Foster Dulles Bud Ditchwater Muddy Waters

Barry Hopper (aka Harry the Bopper) Skip James Jumping Jack Flash

Pluto Johnny Mars Raymond Barre

Holly Golightly Terry Lightfoot Lady Heavy Bottom

John Lee Hooker Eddie Fisher The Catcher in the Rye

The Pet Shop Boys Budgie John Cage

Thomas Withers Chin Googie Withers Wayne Shorter

Great! I bought it last year for my daughter who likes those Manchester bands - it's a question of generation, you know - and has felt nostalgic about the city since she moved to London.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Le Douanier Facteur Cheval

It's a pity I'm not more interested in the music my city has produced - there could be some interesting, albeit risky, walks:

Indiana Jones Indian Queens Butch Warren

Postman Pat Rogue Male Kylie Minogue

Yes, he was better then. He's become too much of a literary personality - too hitched to the marketing machine. You have a sense all the way through of his books being put together for a certain identifiable audience - all the right buttons being pressed. "Too clever by half", I remarked to my wife as I was reading and the final pay-off in Sweet Toothfully vindicated that remark. But, as I said in the last post, he's always readable and as the local public library always buys multiple copies of his stuff, why not borrow and read - the implication being that I wouldn't spend money on it.

Anne Fine Johnny B Goode O K Yoni

McEwan's latest. He's always readable.

Hugo Boss Head Man David Nutt

Odean Pope Osian Roberts Phil Seamen

Bill, fulsome means "cloying or causing surfeit; nauseous; offensive; gross; rank; disgustingly fawning" according to my dictionary. Now, I'M glad to hear such prasie for Eric Alexander, but I wouldn't think you would be MG Your dictionary's too subtle. Mine gives "abundant, plentiful, full". Where does that leave Eric?

Buttons The Fly By Knights I P Knightley

Paul Smith (tenor and arrangements) with the Swingshift Big Band at Southport this afternoon.

Perhaps because so much was available on OJC?

Jane Doe Richard Roe Joe Public

Alan Nunn May John Vassall Anthony Blunt

You've got a couple of weeks. I don't post the reveal till 1st Oct.