Favourite Record Producers

1. George Martin
2. Daniel Lanois
3. Jack Frost (aka Bob Dylan)
4. Sam Phillips
5. T Bone Burnett
6. Rick Rubin
7. Tony Visconti
8. Berry Gordy
9. Phil Spector
10. Jerry Wexler
11. Roy Thomas Baker
12. Jimmy Iovine
13. Steve Lillywhite
14. Jeff Lynne
15. Nile Rogers
16. Stephen Street
17. Bernard Butler

Favourite Directors and their best films

1. Ethan and Joel Cohen
•  The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Inside Lleywn Davis, Blood Simple, No Country for Old Men
2.  Alfred Hitchcock
• Psycho, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo
3. Martin Scorsese
• The King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Mean Streets The Last Waltz, The Irishman
4. Stanley Kubrick
• Dr Strangelove, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Sidney Lumet
• 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, The Pawnbroker, Network, Serpico
6. Francis Ford Coppolo
•  The Godfather I, II and III, The Conversation
7.  Don Siegel
•  Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Escape from Alcatraz, The Black Windmill
8. Steven Spielberg
• Schindler's List, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark (and sequels), Saving Private Ryan, Bridge of Spies
9.  Terry Gilliam
• Time Bandits, The Meaning of Life, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King, Brazil, Jabberwocky, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10. Taika Waititi
•  What we do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilder People
11.  Sergio Leone
•  Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the bad and the Ugly
12. Quinten Tarantino
• Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, D'Jango Unchained, Reservoir Dogs
13. George Roy Hill
•  The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
14.  Richard Donner
•  The Omen, Superman I and II
15.  Norman Jewison
•  In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof, Rollerball
16.  Alan J Pukula
•  The Parallax View, All the President's Men, Klute, Presumed Innocent

Robyn Hitchcock LPs

1. Element of Light
2. Jewels for Sophia
3. The Man Upstairs
4. Goodnight Oslo
5. Tromsø, Kaptein
6. Robyn Hitchcock
7. Spooked
8. Black Snake Diamond Role
9. I often dream of trains
10. Eye
11. Ole Tarantula
12. Propellor Time
13. Love from London
14. Moss Elixir
15. Fegmania
16. Globe of Frogs
17. Luxor
18. Queen Elvis
19. Respect
20. Perspex Island

Favourite albums of the 2010s

1. I am Kloot - Sky at Night (2010)
2. I am Kloot - Let it all in (2013)
3. The Decemberists - The King is Dead (2011)
4. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (2014)
5. The Decemberists - I’ll be Your Girl (2018)
6. Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Upstairs (2014)
7. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Look out Mama (2012)
8. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (2017)
9. David Bowie - The Next Day (2013)
10. David Bowie - Black Star (2015)
11. Robyn Hitchcock - Tromsø, Kaptein (2011)
12. Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock (2017)
13. Noel Gallagher’s Flying Birds (2011)
14. Bob Dylan - Tempest (2011)
15. Belly - Dove (2018)
16. Malcolm Middleton - Bananas (2018)
17. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2010)
18. Jason Isbell - Something More then Free (2015)
19. Madness - Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012)
20. Imelda May - Mayhem (2010)
21. Neil Young - Peace Trail (2016)
22. Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters - Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar (2014)
23. Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters - Carry Fire (2017)
24. David Gilmour - Rattle that Lock (2015)
25. Eels - The Deconstruction (2018)
26. Lucinda Williams - This Sweet Old World (2017)
27. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound (2017)
28. Karl Blau - Introducing Karl Blau (2016)
29. Noel Gallagher’s Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday (2015)
30. Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire (2011)

Dylan's phases (ranked)

Bob Dylan's career can be carved up into 'periods' (others will argue with the boundaries no doubt) and so here is how I think it can be shown.

In chronological order:

1. Folk/ blues covers performer (1960-2)  albums: Bob Dylan
2. Folk/ blues song-writing / protest and love songs (1963-4) - albums:  Freewheelin', Times they are-a-changin', Another side of
3. Electric folk/ blues / imagery (1965-6) - albums: Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde
4. Americana / Country (1967-73) - albums:  Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Dylan
5. Back on the road, reinventing himself (1974-8) - albums: Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Street Legal
6. Gospel / Christian fundamentalist (1979-81) - albums: Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot of Love
7. 80s rock (1982-8) - albums: Infidels, Empire Burlesque, Knocked Out Loaded, Down in the Groove
8. The Oh Mercy/ Wilbury's Resurrection (1988-90) - albums: Travelling Wilburys, Oh Mercy,  Under the Red Sky
9. Folk/ blues covers performer part 2 (1991-6)  albums: Good as I Been to You, World Gone Wrong
10. End of millennium resurrection / old bluemans part 1 (1997-2001) - albums: Time Out of Mind, (single Things Have Changed and Oscar win), Love and Theft
11. Old Bluesman part 2 (2002-14) - albums: Modern Times, Together Through Life, Tempest
12. The Sinatra Years (2015-19) - albums: Shadows in the Night, Fallen Angels, Triplicate


In rank order:

1. Electric folk/ blues / imagery (1965-6)
2. Back on the road, reinventing himself (1973-8)
3. End of millennium resurrection / old bluemans part 1 (1997-2001)
4. Americana / Country (1967-73)
5. Gospel / Christian fundamentalist (1979-81)
6. Old Bluesman part 2 (2002-14)
7. The Oh Mercy/ Wilbury's Resurrection (1988-90)
8. Folk/ blues song-writing / protest and love songs (1963-4)
9. 80s rock (1982-8)
10. Folk/ blues covers performer (1960-2)
11. Folk/ blues covers performer part 2 (1991-6)
12. The Sinatra Years (2015-19)

Well known women I have to admit to having a 'thing' for

1. Jennifer Lopez
2. Linda Cardellini
3. Scarlett Johannson
4. Eva Longoria
5. Maggie Gyllenhaul
6. Kate Bush
7. Gal Gadot
8. Kylie Minogue
9. Audrey Tattou
10. Jennifer Love Hewit

Actors appearing in my top 50 favourite films

Carrie Fisher (5)
Robert de Niro (4)
Toni Collette (3)
Christopher Walken (3)
Most of the cast of Star Wars (3)