R.I.P. Robin Williams
Sad news – Robin Williams was a genius. Yeah-yeah, he undersold his talent – or sold out, if you must – with patchy performances or just plain schmaltz (Patch Adams) but look through that list of...
View ArticleTV Shows That Meant The World To Me: # 3 – Happy Days
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days! These days are ours…Happy Days was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I spent a huge amount of my childhood watching re-runs of Happy Days. I started watching it...
View ArticleDown At Devil Gate Drive with Suzi Quatro: An Interview by ‘Mark Reid’
For a while there, many years back now, I wrote a series of reviews and interviews for an Auckland newspaper under a fake name. I needed a generic-sounding – safe – pen-name. I chose ‘Mark Reid’. A...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 195
Bill Haley & The Comets, Rock Around The Clock (1968) Bill Haley – the name is linked forever to the TV show Happy Days for me, and a little later that Jive Bunny album which I loved for far too...
View ArticleThose Days Were Ours: Part-Remembering Happy Days
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days! These days are ours… Happy Days was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I spent a huge amount of my childhood watching re-runs of Happy Days. I started watching it...
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