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Pardon Me Boy, Is That A Show Of Train Songs? Down In The Tube Station To Catch The Midnight Train Bound For Glory. Slow But Special. Should Arrive By 5:15

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1966 Review Gave Us Good Vibrations & God Only Knows We Need Them. A Menagerie Of Songs Involving Butterflies, Flamingos & Fleas. I Could Mention More Songs But I’m Out Of Time

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Yes, Poor Old Johnnie Ray Says Goodbye To Love & Offers To Play With Madness. Stinks Lets Himself Down With Wizzard Spelling But He Will Die On This Mountain

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A Trio Of Old Gits On Toulouse Street With A Twenty Something Deaf, Dumb & Blind Kid Visiting The Children’s Children’s Children. That’s Life For The Oldest Git I Guess!

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Whether You Like Complex Arrangements, Long Guitar Solos Or Silly Love Songs, The 70s Is The GOAT. Plus Stinks Admits He’s Been Wrong All These Years. He Finally Died On That Hill

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‘Twas The Summer Of ‘69. The World Of Blodwyn Pig, The Bachelors & Engelbert. And It Would’ve Been The Year 2525 Before We’d Guessed Joe Dolan!

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1979. Jazzy Bopping Til He Drops As Usual Whilst Big Bro Studies The Secret Life Of Plants. But Big C’s Madness Was One Step Beyond for Stinks’ Tolerance Level

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Unfiltered Chat From The 3 Amigos. When Sawing Through An Exhaust Pipe With A Bread Knife Leads To A Fingering By Big C’s Gastroenterologist. Only On OTR!

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Upbeats & Offbeats As Big C & Jazzy Geoff Rock Steady To Jamaican Ska. Dig It

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A Moist Penis, A Condom Boob & Then Rub It In. Oh My, What A Hot 100 It Was Back In 1974

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Danny Wilson, Kirsty MacColl, Beautiful South And A Bunch Of Other Cults. 1989 Sucked! And Just Who Is Redhead Kingpin??

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Pretentious Clues Or Fart Jokes? You Decide. 1979 Album Chart Reviewed. Mentioned Argentina Once… Think I Got Away With It

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Jazzy Goes For Oscar. Stinks Goes Foxtrot Oscar To The Pistols Again. Tangerine Dream, Tho? Lou Reed the Room, Stinks!

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Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me Says Suzi Q. Smarty Pants Gets Randy. Just Call Me The Groover

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Fanny & The Gastric Band Ft. Kleeee Torrris. Plus Other Actual 1982 Singles Artists

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In The Mood For Some Song Intros? Freaks, Dancing Queens & Daydream Believers. We’ve Definitely Been Called Worse

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Big C & Jazzy Geoff Left Scratching Their Heads Over Mystic Merlin. No Doubt About It, 1980 Was Tough. Tho We Got B.A. Early Doors, I’d Pity The Fool Who Didn’t

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S Albums. And S For Short Title

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Not All UK Number Ones Were Number Two It Seems. Jazzy Shines Brighter Than Big C’s Clues

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How Dare He? Stinks includes Never Mind The Bollocks In One Of His Lists? Definitely Maybe The Last Time. Think He Needs A Time-Out As He Seems To Be Running Close To The Edge

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Did We Blow Your Mind With A 1971 Singles Chart? It’s Impossible. Well It Certainly Don’t(sic) Come Easy. Just Another Day In OTR Land

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Daley & McCann, Bodie & Doyle, Crockett & Tubbs, Cagney & Lacey, Big C, Stinks & Jazzy. Cheers!

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Deciding Round Of Quiz. Big C Gaining More Points From Stinks’ Questions Than From His Own. Stinks Is Annoyed. Again. I Mentioned The Moody Blues Once, Think I Got Away With It

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Warthog Vaginas, Spiders In The Bath And Other Even More Obscure Artists Featured This Week. Rock On!

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Taking A Time-Out From Usual Format, We Bravely Selected Albums To Review. It Was A Wild Ride To A Land Of Dreams Ultimately. I Think We Did OK. It’s All About Chemistry, You See

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After A Long Introduction With Clues To The Year 1979, Big C Shockingly Switches To An Album Chart From 1975. Professional? Moi?

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It Never Reigns When it Pours For Tudor At Spurs. Swimming Pool Pissing Areas, Charlie Chaplin & World War III. Oh, And Some Singles From 1967

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Seconds Of Pleasure With Nobody’s Heroes As The Three Amigos Debate 1980 Albums. Against The Wind, Sound Affects, Drama… But Enough About Stinks’ Pre Pod Ablutions. And Yes, Big C, It IS 1980!

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Little Willie, Little Richard & Little Gordon Lightfeat The Big MOVErs Into HOF. Mayall Inductees Feel Proud Of Their Achievements

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Faux-Reggae = Faux-Pas, It Seems. The Revealing Science Of Calculating Our Least Liked Songs By Artists We Love. And Rod, No We Don’t!

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Rock N Roll Juveniles Reminiscing Over Some Girls In New Boots & Panties. Don’t Look Back! And What Is The Opposite Od Denephew?

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In A Galaxy Over The Hills And Half The World Away, Our Intrepid Heroes Run For Home Through Fire And Rain To Be With You. Now That’s Entertainment!

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Live From Newcastle (Or Was It Leeds?) With Parsley, Penguin Eggs & Pet Sounds, We Were Taking The P This Week. And Doesn’t Everyone Have A Favourite Letter?

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New Boots & Panties, Heavy Weather & Never Mind The Bollocks. 3 Albums From 1977. But Also A Description Of Our 3 Amigos’ Musical Tastes?

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Photo-Finish As Rory Drums Up Enough Support To Oust Percussionist Steve Gadd! But We Were Grateful For The Dead Buddy & Jimi Who With Janis All Made The Cut

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Jingle Bells With Flange Right Up To Eleven. OTR Christmas Songs Review. Think We Sleighed That!

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A Panoply Of Tunes In This Episode. I Hate It Tho When People Use Obscure Words No One Else Knows Just To Appear Perspicacious. It’s Quite Tragic Really…

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From Folk To Folkin’ Awful As Stinks Has To Review Fairport Convention And The Sex Pistols. Never Mind, Eh? With One Of Them Definitely Maybe Shown The Doors

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Double Entries And Freaks Jacking In The Underground On Acieed, But The Burning Question Is Who The Hell Is Maureen? Stinks Wanted To Know. Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi?

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O Albums Beginning With K From Leicester In Tennessee And Other Off The Wall Comments. Stinks’ Nut’s Gone Flake! AKA Another Stinking Cess Pool Of Pus. We Need to Stop Stinks Doing OTR Promos

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Pandemonium As OTR Hall Of Fame’s First Inductees Are Announced. Or Rather Imodium For Stinks. With A Slice Of Sanctimonium With News Of No Pop Music From Him! Japanese Flag Syndrome Talking

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From Red Cape-Wearing Insects To Diplopia And Cephalopods. Stinks Was Going To Say Roberta Flack. Rumours Have It Anyway

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Never A Dull Moment On OTR. From Dummy Keyboards To Clues For Dummies. Stinks And Jazzy Got The Knack By The End Thankfully. Get Your Socks Off, Baby

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New Boots And Panties. But Enough About Stinky’s Attire For A Night On The Town. As Usual, Sex Pistols Given No Quarter By Stinks. Never Mind, Eh!

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“I Can’t Live, If Living Is Without Power Ballads. Against All Odds, We Actually Agreed On A Few Songs. Eat Your Heart Out, Celine & Mariah!”

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s Big C, Stinks & Jazzy With Their Faux Outrage

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Today’s Forecast: Sunny Periods With A Belated Summer Wind. Plus A Naked Stinks Sent To Coventry On A Horse Screaming I’m A Boy. They’re Coming To Take Him Away, Ha Ha!

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Why So Serious? West End Girls Marlene & Eloise Walk This Way To Dance on The Ceiling. A Higher Love You Couldn’t Imagine. It Took Our Breath Away. If Anyone Is To Blame Tho, You Can Call Him Geoff

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A Magical Mystery Tour Through M Albums Featuring Whelks, Dykes & Vaginas. But We’ve Been Called Worse TBF

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Are You Reddy For Helen? Or Aretha? There Goes Rhymin’ Stinks. Or The Tower Of Power As He’s Known To The Girls. But, As Busted Once Sang “Who’s David?

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Jazzy Goes From David Guetta To Nena Get-A-Razor. Spectrum & The Angels At The Ready, Jody Tempest & The Mysterons Arrive Like Clockwork. Oh, And Tangerine Dream. But Sadly No Marmalade Skies

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A Long Way Down The Road Out Of Eden To The Land Of Dreams. Let It Be Said, No One Expected Robbie Williams Tho. Love It!

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Punk and New Wave? Never Mind The Bollocks As Big C And Flash Gordon Are Here Also To Air Their Views. And The Latter Is Definitely Not A Moron

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Milkmen, Soldiers, Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves And A Dog Named Boo. Was There A Better Year For Singles? I’m Still Waiting…

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UGM-84 Harpoon Submarine Missiles, Old West Outlaws, Tits And Ass Plus Dolly P. In The End Tho, I’m Just A Boy, Sitting In Front Of Two Brothers, Wanting Them To Love Gen X

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Ian Walker’s Hair, Family Doggs, Crazy Elephants & Wet Dreams. ‘T’Was The Summer Of 69. And Then Clodagh Rodgers Tom Jones

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The Name of The Game Is Pop Music Of The Highest Quality. Only One Of Us Liked Thank You For The Music Tho. Mamma Mia!!! Go on… Take A Chance On ABBA!

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Here There & Everywhere Last Week But This Time, After Stinks’ Extensive Research, Big C & Jazzy Were Out Of Time Which Gave Stinks Some Satisfaction. Gimme Shelter From Rolf Harris Tho!

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Season 7 Premiere. An All American Show. Some Iconic Confusion. Stinky Pete Blames Big C For The Disorganisation But He Then Goes on To Choose A Canadian. Go Figure

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Yes Is No Disgrace. Or Is it? Text 717-1551 With A Y/N. Or Walk This Way By The Purple Haze On The Water. It’s All Crazeeee!

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Second Place In Firearms Ammunition Contest, Christian Priests & WTF Is Klaus Wunderlich? Big C’s Clues Getting Better, Stinks’ Knowledge Improving. It Won’t James Last

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Pavarotti, Palindromes & Pop Will Eat Itself. Dirty Cash & Don Pablos Animals. Hold On… Arrivederci, It’s Step By Step in 1990

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I Mentioned BoRhap Once. Think I Got Away With It. Tangled Up In Blue Guitars, Do We Know Where We’re Going To? Rhinestone Cowboys Born to Run, Searching For The Best Lick In Town

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Sylvia, Maybellene, Jenny… All The Girls Join OTR For Our First Episode As European Champions. That Is All

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Paul Is No One-Trick Pony. New Yorker Rhymin’ Simon’s Songbook Opens A Path To Graceland And The Mardi Gras And Is No Surprise. American Tunes At Their Best

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50,000,000 Fans Can’t Be Wrong To Assume Stinks Isn’t An Elvis Fan. We Covered Them All. Flaws & Triumphs. Or Stinks And Jazzy As They Prefer To Be Called

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The Magnificent 3 Discuss Biscuits, The Feral Opposite Of Dog, Albert Einstein And A Black Johnny Cash. Can You Feel it

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Imagine A Land Of Grey & Pink Somewhere In Between Dreams And The Inner World Of Isotopes And Icebergs. Is This It? I Mentioned Mahavishnu Once, Think I Got Away With It. And Where’s Rory?

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Big C Completes His Training Exercises & Ups His Clues Game As Stinks Gets To Grips With Some Fanatical And Colourful Shellfish

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New York, London, Paris, Munich, Everybody’s Talking ‘Bout OTR. Knock On Wood! If Not, We’re In Dire Straits. 1979 Chart, Jazzy With The Pointers, Especially The Sisters

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Dancing Queens, Bristols, Wayward Sons & A Cherry Bomb. It’s Anarchy, I Tell Ya!

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Chocolate Ice Cream Pizza For Stinks? When Hell Freezes Over For Big C! But Three Linda Ronstadts? Hunky Dory!

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On The Road To Escondido Via 461 Ocean Boulevard After Midnight, Slowhand Was ‘Ere This Week. What A Journey Man!

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Follow The Yellow Brick Road And Down The Green River To Graceland For A Glittering Prize. Get It? Comedy Gold That Even Gaucho Marx Concurs!

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From Funk To Dragged Shuffles And Bitches To Bach Choirs, it’s No Stone Unturned For Some Honky Tonk Blues

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Taking A Spanish Stroll With Our Friend In Jesus Recommending The Spirit In The Sky Culminating In A Resurrection Shuffle. New York, London, Paris, Munich, Everybody’s Talking ‘Bout Off The Rekord

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Some Genesis Revelations. Big C And Stinky Pete Agreeing On Something? No, It’s A Trick Of The Eye. Huge Supper’s Ready Ignored So Thankfully No Wind And Wuthering From Stinks This Week

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Cockney Rebels, Magnums, Queens, Doobies And Puds. A Usual Thursday Night Then

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Porridge, MASH, Banana Splits And A Lollipop. That’s Big C’s Pre-Show Menu Sorted. Who Loves Ya, Baby? Don’t Tell Him, Pike!

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The Only Band That Matters. Big C, Stinks And Jazzy Geoff. Now THAT’s Entertainment!

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Stray Cats Got the Cream. Together with The Jam, We Just Needed A Scone For A Late Afternoon Tea. Genesis Wallpaper Music? It Soon Dawned On Big C That Stinks Was Being Serious!

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Face To Face With Freewheelin’ Farts & Frampton, Big C And Stinks Face The Music And A Flaming Pie. Freedom Is Frightening. Both Are Fragile But Free At Last

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Ken Dodd? You’re ‘Avin’ A Laugh! Unlikely If It’s Ken Dodd, Come To Think Of It. Dildos, War Lords & Merry Gentle Pops, Barron Knights Being A Particular Must to Avoid

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Cliff And Strange Bed Partners For Jazzy Geoff. Mariah? On Very Shaky Ground There. But Merry Christmas, Darlin’, Wherever You Are!

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Consensual Arse-Grabbing And Beats Per Minute. The Walrus Of Love Moves Closer, What A Wonderful World

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A Gilded Palace Of Sin, Hot Rats, Blind Faith, Spare Parts & Prison Songs. A Usual Wednesday Evening For Stinky Pete! Rock On, Tommy!

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Elton In Electric Ladyland Eating A Peach To The Beat. Every Picture Tells A Story, I Guess. Endless E Albums From Stinks Culminating In A Mass Exodus

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B Sides Extravaganza. The B Was Clearly For Bowie! Or Beatles Naturally…

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The Brothers In Arms Back For Season 6. After A Bit Of Twisting And Shouting, Stinks’ Free Bird Pick Made Big C A Lucky Man. And Yes Must’ve Been A Last Resort?

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Orange Performing Monkeys, Fanny And A Wimpy Bender. But Stinks Was Too Tired For His Usual Shenanigans Tonight, So Keyboardists And Girl Bands It Is

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Dogs, Dreams And Desperadoes. Different Decades For Stinks, 70s For Big C. D Albums It Is But No Space For Debbie Does Dallas Soundtrack

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Auntie Flo Says No I Do Not Like Barry F***** Manilow. Stinks Wins By A Nose

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It’s Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band’s Death Cab For Cutie And Coincidentally It’s Taxi For Big C. Don’t Mention The Scaffold

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Penguin Eggs, Pet Sounds & A Sexsmith. But No Mariah Carey For Songwriter And Author Ags! Heeah!

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Pretty In Pink. Shame Then That Stinks Was In Blue Tonight. With Marti Webb, Still Remembered Down At The Timex Social Club For Her Winning Goal In The 1970 FA Cup Final

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Stinky Does Extensive Research To Reveal His Favourites By Artists For Whom He Usually Has No Time Including Elvis And Queen. What A Super Trouper!

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From The Muddy Mess O’ Blues To The Cream Of Supergroups. Plus Ozzy And Ed. Tho Big C Got Randy

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Boogie, Blues And Bogs, And It’s Rain N’Cats N’ Dogs. Three Chords And Triple Denim. A History Of South London’s Finest

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Off The Rekord Is Brought To You This Week By The Letter C. That’ll Be A Big C

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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelia, Flowers, Summer Of Love, Hendrix, Itchycoo, Chaucer & Waterloo. No, Not The Names Of All Of Stinky’s Offspring But Maybe The Best Year Of Singles. 1967

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