Saddest celebrity deaths (as felt at the time)

1. David Bowie
2. Elisabeth Sladen
3. David Rocastle
4. Roy Kinnear
5. Carrie Fisher
6. Freddie Mercury
7. George Harrison
8. Prince
9. Victoria Wood
10. Muhammed Ali
11. Ronnie Barker
12. Richard Wright
13. Dermot Morgan
14. George Cole
15. Larry Hagman
16. Michael Conrad
17. Caroline Aherne
18. Yootha Joyce
19. John Hurt
20. Peter Sellars
21. Tom Petty
22. Gary Holton
23. Rik Mayall
24. George Michael

(there were 25 on the list, but I found out later that Paul Michael Glaser is still alive, so I think I was sad about his wife and son dying of AIDs)

Favourite Lines from Songs

1. Don't let the clouds clutter up your sky (Shoeless, I am Kloot)
2. And it's only the giving that makes you what you are (Wondrin' Aloud, Jethro Tull)
3. Colour is its own reward (Fingers of Love, Crowded House)
4. Only one thing I did wrong, stayed in Mississippi a day too long (Mississippi, Bob Dylan)
5. And who am I, to dare to pull the stars from your favourite sky? (Your Favourite Sky, I am Kloot)
6. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright by me (Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen)
7. My finest hour that I've ever know was finding a pound on the underground (My Finest Hour, The Sundays)
8. The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face (Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan)
9. Leave alone the empty spaces (John Bramwell, Leave Alone the Empty Spaces)
10. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose (Kris Kristofferson, Me and Bobby McGee)
11. If Heaven is a place upon your skin, that I might have touched from without to within, then dust yourself for fingerprints and grin, and grin (Fingerprints, I am Kloot)
12. Don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine,  most of the time (Most of the Time, Bob Dylan)
13. Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to (Oh Well (part one), Fleetwood Mac)
14. God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son!' Abe said, 'Man you must be puttin' me on.' (Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
15. She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing (Beeswing, Richard Thompson)
16. All aboard Brenda's Iron Sledge, please don't call me Reg, that's not my name (Brenda's Iron Sledge, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians)
17. A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest (The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel

Favourite Cities Visited

1. New York
2. Seville
3. Copenhagen
4. Reykjavik
5. Athens
6. Florence
7. Paris
8. Vienna
9. Dublin
10. Salzburg
11. Washington
12. Budapest
13. Philadelphia
14. Rome
15. Paphos
16. Munich
17. Madrid
18. Berlin
19. Venice
20. Cologne

Favourite Writers

1. George Bernard Shaw
2. Kurt Vonneugt
3. George Orwell
4. Graham Greene
5. Nick Hornby
6. Louis de Bernieres
7. John Wyndham
8. Peter Ackroyd
9. J D Salinger
10. H G Wells

Favourite Musicians

vocals

1. Alynda Lee Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff)
2. Ryan Adams
3. Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays)
4. Neil Finn
5. Freddie Mercury
6. Conor Oberst
7. Townes Van Zandt
8. The Everly Brothers
9. Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)
10. Waylon Jennings

guitar

1. Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
2. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
3. Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention/solo)
4. Peter Buck (R.E.M)
5. David Gilmore (Pink Floyd)
6. Johnny Marr (The Smiths)
7. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)
8. Robbie Kriegar (The Doors)
9. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
10. Robbie Robertson (The Band)
11. Brian May (Queen)
12. John Squire (The Stone Roses)
13. Bernard Butler (Suede/solo/other)
14. Richie Havens
15. Dave Rawlings (has backed Gillian Welch and Ryan Adams)

bass

1. Pete Jobson (I am Kloot)
2. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
3. Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
4. Trevor Bolder (Spiders from Mars)
5. Mark Bedford (Madness)
6. Sting (The Police)

drums

1. Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
2. Andy Hargreaves (I am Kloot)
3. John Densmore (The Doors)
4. John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
5. Stewart Copeland (The Police)

keyboards/piano

1. Mike Barson (Madness)
2. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
3. Billy Preston
4. Mike Garson (backed Bowie)

flute

1. Ian Anderson

Favourite Actors/Actresses (so far as I can think of them)

1. Robert de Niro
2. Toni Collette
3. Rod Steigar
4. Robert Duvall
5. Dustin Hoffman
6. Gary Oldman
7. Sally Hawkins
8. Peter Sellars
9. Henry Fonda
10. Gene Hackman
11. Frances McDormand
12. Al Pacino
13. Christopher Walken
14. Albert Finney
15. George C Scott
16. 
    

Favourite Films

Drama

1. The Godfather Part II

2. The Godfather

3. The Deer Hunter

4. Dirty Harry

5. Rocky

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

7. The Omen

8. Psycho

9. Midnight Cowboy

10. The Parallex View

11. Made in England

12. The Elephant Man

13. Dog Day Afternoon

14. No Country for Old Men

15. Once Upon a Time in the West

16. In the Heat of the Night

17. Mississippi Burning

18. Schindler’s List

19. The Man who would be King

20. Inside Llewyn Davis

21. Blood Simple

22.  Taxi Driver

23. North by Northwest

24. Twelve Angry Men

25. The Third Man

26. The Pawnbroker

27. Scarecrow

28. Network

29. On the Waterfront

30. Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)

Comic/drama

1. The Graduate

2. Lost in Translation

3. Fargo

4. Little Miss Sunshine

5. Fever Pitch

6. Pulp Fiction

7. Hunt for the Wilder People

8. True Romance

9. The King of Comedy

Comedy

1. When Harry Met Sally

2. Please Sir

3. The Big Lebowski

4. The Pink Panther Strikes Again

5. What we do in the Shadows

6. Kenny

7. Dr Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

8. About a Boy

9. Bridesmaids

10. Steptoe and Son Ride Again

11. American Pie 3: The Wedding

12. American Pie

13. Austin Powers: The Spy who shagged me

14. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Sci-Fi/ fantasy

1. Star Wars

2. The Empire Strikes Back

3. Superman II

4. Superman 

5. Return of the Jedi

Musical/Music-comedy

1. Scrooge

2. The Blues Brothers

The Five Best Years in Popular Music History (based on album releases)

1969 -

• Abbey Road - The Beatles
• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
• Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
• The Soft Parade - The Doors
• Stand Up - Jethro Tull
• Everybody Knows this is Nowhere - Neil Young
• Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
• Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
• Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention
• Unhalfbricking - Fairport Convention
• Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan
• Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac
• The Band - The Band
• Space Oddity - David Bowie
• Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
• Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt

1970 - 

• Morrison Hotel - The Doors
• Let it Be - The Beatles
• The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
• Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
• Benefit - Jethro Tull
• New Morning - Bob Dylan
• After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
• All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
• Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney
• Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
• Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
• Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John
• Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd

1971 - 

• Hunky Dory - David Bowie
• L.A. Woman - The Doors
• Untitled 4th album (Led Zeppelin IV) - Led Zeppelin
• Meddle - Pink Floyd
• Aqualung - Jethro Tull
• Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
• Imagine - John Lennon
• Ram - Paul and Linda McCartney
• Bryter Later - Nick Drake
• Nursery Cryme - Genesis
• Madman Across the Water - Elton John

1980 - 

• Absolutely - Madness
• Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
• The River - Bruce Springsteen
• Saved - Bob Dylan
• Never for Ever - Kate Bush
• Autoamerican - Blondie
• Closer - Joy Division
• Boy - U2
• Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - David Bowie
• McCartney II - Paul McCartney
• Sound Affects - The Jam
• Making Movies - Dire Straits
• Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexy's Midnight Runners
• Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
• More Specials - The Specials
• Get Happy - Elvis Costello

1995 - 

• King - Belly
• The Bends - Radiohead
• Different Class - Pulp
• The Sound of McAlmont and Butler
• Tigerlily - Natalie Merchant
• To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey
• What's the Story, Morning Glory? - Oasis
• Roots to Branches - Jethro Tull
• Stanley Road - Paul Weller
• Worry Bomb - Carter USM
• Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrissette
• I Should Coco - Supergrass

Tube stations remind me of when...

Piccadilly Line

• Cockfosters - Parking here to get the tube to Arsenal (in my 30s/40s)
• Oakwood - Getting the tube to primary school with Peggy and her funny kids Jon and Thomas Caulfield (aged 6-12)
• Southgate - Living near here (aged 6-12) and visiting Wimpy and Our Price  - opposite the station - a lot
• Arnos Grove - Got off here for primary school (aged 6-11), visited the park here a lot (mid teens) and parked here to get the tube to work in Coutts (aged 19-21)
• Wood Green - shopping in Wood Green Shopping centre and high street (aged 6-18)
• Turnpike Lane - going to the cinema (mid teens), drinking in the Wellington on the way to the Archway Tavern (late teens) and taking students from D&K on trips into London from here (in my 20s)
• Manor House - going to Cats (Catacomb club) after the Archway Tavern (late teens)
• Finsbury Park - getting off here for Arsenal games, when we thought Arsenal tube would be packed (in my late teens, 20s, 30s and early 40s)
• Arsenal - going to Highbury and the Emirates (as above)
• Covent Garden - evenings out at the Roadhouse (early 20s)
• Leicester Square - don't know, just seems I've used it constantly for days/nights out over the decades
• Hammersmith - have seen lots of gigs here and also always got off the X1 bus from Reading here to get a tube home when returning from university for occasional weekends

Northern Line

• Edgware - shopped here a lot when living in Colindale (mid 20s)
• Burnt Oak - lived here (mid 20s)
• Colindale - lived here (mid 20s) but rarely used the station as Burnt Oak was nearer
• Hendon Central - Jack's first childminder lived here; also we visited a great Chinese restaurant here (mid-late 20s)
• Brent Cross - went to the shopping centre a lot (as a kid and mid-20s) but never from the tube
• Golders Green - drove through it every time I drove my wife to/from work when living in Colindale and Borehamwood (mid 20s and early 30s)
• Hampstead - can't recall living here, but visited the area a lot when my wife trained as a nurse at the Royal Free and lived close
• Belsize Park - Went to primary school here (aged 4-6) and spent a lot of time in the area when my wife trained as a nurse at the Royal Free and lived close
• Chalk Farm - lived opposite (aged 3-6) and currently work opposite too
• Camden Town - visited a lot on the 29 bus to visit Stiff Records (Madness's record company) early to mid teens
• Tottenham Court Road - Visited the big HMV and Virgin shops here a lot (mid teens)
• Embankment - don't know, just seems I've used it constantly for days/nights out over the decades
• Waterloo - met my wife here in the early days when she travelled from Surrey to visit me, also did my PGCE/teacher training here (early 20s)
• Angel - Lots of nights out in this area (30s)
• Archway - went to the Archway Tavern a lot (and proposed to my wife here) although never travelled here by tube (late teens)
• Kentish Town - first place I lived (can't remember) and currently get off here for work

Jubilee Line

• Stanmore - parked here a lot, when living in Borehamwood, in order to get to Wembley for Arsenal games (30s)
• Canon's Park - parked here a lot when living in Colindale, in order to do the same
• Wembley Park - first ever concert at the stadium was U2 and have been to a few others since (Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Oasis) plus several at the arena (REM, Beautiful South, Madness, Bob Dylan) and visits to cup finals/semis/Arsenal Champions' League games
• West Hampstead - since living in St Albans, I seem to always have a reason to change here when travelling into London (a family in-joke); also lots of nights out with Mount Grace Humanities friends here
• St John's Wood - both parents grew up here and visited a lot as a kid (until mid teens)
• Swiss Cottage - shopped here a lot (aged 3-6 with my mum obvs)

Bakerloo Line

• Regent's Park - visited a lot as a kid when visiting grandparents in St John's Wood (but never via the tube)

Circle and District Lines

• High St Kensington - worked at Coutts Bank here (in my late teens)
• Sloane Square - worked at Coutts Bank here (late teens/early 20s)
• Blackfriars - always changed here on the way to hospital appointments for my daughter (late 40s)

Victoria Line

• Victoria - accompanied my wife back here in our early days of going out, when she'd visit me in London from Surrey and went home from here on Sunday evenings

Best TV programmes of the 70s and 80s (as enjoyed at the time)

1. Doctor Who
2. Minder
3. The Sweeney
4. Hill Street Blues
5. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
6. The Young Ones
7. Porridge
8. Dallas
9. Soap
10. The Six Million Dollar Man
11. Rainbow
12. The Two Ronnies
13. Starsky and Hutch
14. Going for Gold
15. Mr Benn
16. Bagpuss
17. Rising Damp
18. George and Mildred
19. Happy Days
20. The Dick Emery Show
21. Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game
22. Robin of Sherwood
23. Brookside
24. Dad's Army
25. The Good Life
26. Roobarb
27. Dick Turpin
28. Coronation Street
29. Mr Men
30. Upstairs Downstairs

Countries Visited in order of preference

1. Switzerland
2. Iceland
3. Denmark
4. Ireland
5. USA
6. Cyprus
7. Greece
8. Spain
9. Austria
10. Germany
11. Portugal
12. Italy
13. France
14. Tunisia
15. Belgium
16. Hungary
17. Holland
18. Turkey

Favourite Music Artists (with album and gig count)

1. Bob Dylan (7)
2. I am Kloot (10+5 Bramwell solo)
3. The Beatles (1 McCartney solo)
4. Madness (4)
5. David Bowie (1)
6. Neil Young (2)
7. The Doors
8. Led Zeppelin (2 Page solo & Plant solo)
9. The Decemberists (2)
10. Robyn Hitchcock
11. Kate Bush
12. Pink Floyd (1)
13. Jethro Tull (c.3)
14. Bruce Springsteen (2)
15. Richard Thompson (c.6)
16. The Rolling Stones (1)
17. Ryan Adams (2)
18. Blondie (2)
19. R.E.M. (2)
20. Simon and Garfunkel (1 Garfunkel solo)
21. Queen
22. Johnny Cash
23. Fleetwood Mac
24. Willie Nelson
25. Hurray for the Riff Raff
26. The Smiths (2 Morrissey solo)
27. The Police
28. Crowded House
29. 10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant (1/1)
30. The Sundays (1)
31. Fun Boy 3
32. Marillion
33. Bobbie Gentry
34. Belly (1)
35. Dire Straits
36. James (1)
37. U2 (1)
38. Townes Van Zandt
39. Waylon Jennings
40. The Waterboys (1)

number in brackets = Number of gigs attended.

Favourite 10 and 40 Doctor Who Episodes

Part One - 1963-89&1996

1. Terror of the Zygons (Baker)
2. The Talons of Weng Chiang (Baker)
3. Genesis of the Daleks (Baker)
4. The Android Invasion (Baker)
5. Pyramids of Mars (Baker)
6. The Brain of Morbius (Baker)
7. The Stones of Blood (Baker)
8. Logopolis (Baker)
9. Spearhead from Space (Pertwee)
10. The Androids of Tara (Baker)

Part Two - 2005+

1. Blink (Tennant)
2. Human Nature/ The Family of Blood (Tennant)
3. The Girl Who Waited (Smith)
4. The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of the Moon (Smith)
5. Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday (Tennant)
   
6. Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead (Tennant)
7. Heaven Sent (Capaldi)
8. The Stolen Earth/ Journey's End (Tennant)
9. The Angels Take Manhatten (Smith)
10. Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Waves (Eccleston)
11. Turn Left (Tennant)
12. The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone (Smith)
13. Under the Lake/ Before the Flood (Capaldi)
14. The Magician's Apprentice/ The Witch's Familiar (Capaldi)
15. Hell Bent (Capaldi)
16. Rise of the Cybermen/ The Age of Steel (Tennant)
17. Love and Monsters (Tennant)
18. Midnight (Tennant)
19. The Crimson Horror (Smith)
20. The Name of the Doctor (Smith)
21. The Day of the Doctor (Smith/ Tennant/ Hurt/ Baker)
22. The Time of the Doctor (Smith)
23. Deep Breath (Capaldi)
24. The Eleventh Hour (Smith)
25. Dark Water/ Death in Heaven (Capaldi)
26. The Unquiet Dead (Eccleston)
27. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances (Eccleston)
28. The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang (Smith)
29. World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls (Capaldi)
30. The God Complex (Smith)
31. A Christmas Carol (Smith)
32. The Rebel Flesh/ The Almost People (Smith)
33. Face the Raven (Capaldi)
34. The End of Time parts 1 and 2 (Tennant)
35. The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit (Tennant)
36. School Reunion (Tennant)
37. Cold War (Smith)
38. Hide (Smith)
39. The Girl in the Fireplace (Tennant)
40. Mummy on the Orient Express (Capaldi)

Coen Brothers Films in order of preference

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Fargo
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Blood Simple
5. No Country for Old Men
6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8. Burn After Reading
9. Barton Fink
10. Hail Caesar!
11. Miller's Crossing
12. The Ladykillers
13. Raising Arizona
14. Intolerable Cruelty
15. The Hudsucker Proxy
16. True Grit
17. The Man Who Wasn't There
18. A Serious Man

All Beatles albums in order of preference

1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. Abbey Road
4. The Beatles (The White Album)
5. Let it Be
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Help!
9. Please, Please Me
10. With the Beatles
11. Beatles for Sale
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

All Bob Dylan Studio Albums in order of preference

1. Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
2. Blood on the Tracks (1975)
3. Blonde on Blonde (1966)
4. Oh Mercy (1989)
5. Love and Theft (2001)
6. Bringing it all Back Home (1965)
7. Slow Train Coming (1979)
8. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
9. John Wesley Harding (1967)
10. Planet Waves (1974)
11. Time Out of Mind (1997)
12. Desire (1976)
13. Infidels (1983)
14. Modern Times (2006)
15. Together Through Life (2009)
16. Saved (1980)
17. New Morning (1970)
18. Self Portrait (1970)
19. The Basement Tapes (1975 rec 1967)
20. Street Legal (1978)
21. Shot of Love (1981)
22. Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
23. The Times They Are-A Changin' (1964)
24. Bob Dylan (1962)
25. Empire Burlesque (1985)
26. Nashville Skyline (1969)
27. Knocked Out Loaded (1986)
28. Tempest (2012)
29. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
30. World Gone Wrong (1993)
31. Under the Red Sky (1990)
32. Shadows in the Night (2015)
33. Triplicate (2017)
34. Fallen Angels (2016)
35. Down in the Groove (1988)
36. Good as I Been to You (1992)
37. Dylan (1973)
38. Christmas in the Heart (2009)