Good clip, thanks Barry. I had heard the name but knew little of Halliday
or his music and how revolutionary it was in France at the time. Nothing
about the will here?
Bill
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 at 3:29 am, Barry Alpert <
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> Bill,
>
> Recent news about the last will & testament of "The French Elvis", Johnny
> Hallyday, suggests additional material you might mine. This clip might be a
> good starting point:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FSfjv0ccE
>
>
> Barry
>
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 23:34:04 +0000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Thanks, Doug. Many cases of the apprentice outstripping the master, even
> if
> >that was not the objective. Presley peaked, so it is said, at Sun in the
> >50s. Costello started out edgy, extended his range, without slipping into
> >the mainstream and continued to write. Did Presley write anyhing himself?
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 at 5:37 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Enjoyed it, too, Bill; a real contrast there (yet the younger took that
> >> name in homage as much as (his real) snark.
> >>
> >> But how personalities react & then react…
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >> > On Feb 6, 2018, at 11:26 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, Sheila, Andrew. The King was a drip to me. MacManus lively,
> >> > irascible, a risk taker whose later works lost me mainly when they got
> >> > over-earnest. Whoda thunk he’d turn out to be an amiable nightshow
> host!
> >> > It’s a point of difference for most anyway, which Elvis you’d have on
> >> your
> >> > toast, so to speak.
> >> >
> >> > Bill
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 at 2:11 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Ah, two sides of Elvis! I much prefer the bespectacled one - he can
> sing
> >> >> outside the pop charts.
> >> >>
> >> >> Andrew
> >> >>
> >> >> <
> >> >>
> >>
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> >> >>>
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> >> >>
> >>
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> >> >>>
> >> >> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> >> >>
> >> >> On 7 February 2018 at 08:30, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Pretty intriguing, Bill. Thank you for the portraiture!
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]
> >> >
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Never close
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Elvised apart
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> in the 70s
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> one candle holding
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> the swivel-hipped
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Wooden heart denier
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> the other rolling with
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> the Pumped up
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> bespectacled
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Detective watcher
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Sister one dumped
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> her own King
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Left him to his meat
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> in the bush
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Set up camp
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> with her issue
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Danced with herself
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Sister two
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> already encumbered
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> at stage Costello
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> cleared out
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> left issue
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> hooked up
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> with Joe Strummerite
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> One still passes on platitudes
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Two leaves that sort of thing to Joe
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> bw
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 7.2.18
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Andrew
> >> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >> >> Books available through Walleah Press
> >> >> http://walleahpress.com.au
> >> >>
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations
> >> 2 (UofAPress).
> >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >> Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Swept snow, Li Po,
> >> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> >> to the road that hies to office
> >> away from home.
> >>
> >> Lorine Niedecker
> >>
>
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