I knew some guys with a music shop in Portobello Road. The bane of their lives were identikit rock legends who wandered in, strummed a bar or two on a 10-grand Les Paul, then asked them to send it to… (View Post)

In sharp contrast to ancient rockers like, for example, Bob Dylan, whose fans only want to hear the same familiar songs sung to the same familiar tunes and are invariably disappointed. (View Post)

Register office for Mrs Soup and me, followed by a slap-up lunch with our two witnesses. Lasted 40 years (and counting). (View Post)

Vernon Bogdanor said Cameron was the cleverest student he'd ever taught. Imagine how all the other Brasenose boys must have squirmed when they read that. (View Post)

There's a fabulous u/g car park in Bloomsbury Square, WC1, in the shape of a double helix. You drive round and round and down and down and slowly you realise you're climbing and, before you find a sp… (View Post)