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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 4h

My other half bought me a first edition for my 40th. Best birthday present I have ever had. Amazing book, a timelessly fantastic grasp of delusional young men and their bravado. Great film, too.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 7h

Talks about it here among other things - a decent watch if you have 40 mins to spare youtu.be/OGK_hbavcHA

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Midge Ure in-studio on Jonesy's Jukebox!

YouTube video by 955KLOS

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 7h

Done by the Rollers’ production team of Phil Coulter, Bill Martin and their session chaps. Midge Ure more or less disowned it as the only thing of him on it was his vocals. Went to no.1, though.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 11h

This is what the front page of a newspaper should look like

Observer front page headline: ‘The return of the public execution’ with black-and-white photograph of a crowd watching America’s last public hanging in 1936

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12h

Just needs a soundtrack by Frank Zappa

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12h

Small victories are to be cherished

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry, acoustic, not a cappella. Brain slide

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12h

Here is a terrible photo of an amazing gig. If there is anyone at 73 who delivers a better and more-consistent live show than Robyn Hitchcock, let me know. Ended with a solo strolling a cappella cover of Day In The Life up and down the aisles of the Union Chapel.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 13h

Went crazy and did bedding and towels yesterday

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 16h

If you want to DM me an email squire

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Marvellous bit of interaction here on the Kings Cross concourse. Street preacher v Leeds United. Marching on together.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Having recently unearthed my thought-to-be lost Sheffield Leadmill bootleg from 1992, I feel more able than ever to claim that they are even better than I remembered them

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Certainly one of the best interviewees in my 35 years of hackery. A thoroughly decent fella and a big old brain on him too.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I remember the old 70s disaster movies - Towering Inferno comes to mind - where there was always someone that was destined for a horrible ending because they were such a massive arse. Even in a take-your-pick age of wankers, there are a few very strong contenders.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They never tire of bashing the young, even dressing it up as legitimate concerns ™️. Absolutely devoid of empathy or compassion.

Daily Mail headline: ‘Rush to diagnose autism can damage children’

Times headline: ADHD label risks ‘harm for life’ for youngsters’

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bring back Points of View. That was the place where all these moon howlers used to go for their 10 mins of fame.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gil Scott-Heron always seemed happy enough with the revolution being televised.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seen them a few times over the past couple of years. Viv and Ellen have been fantastic additions. One of the unsung greats, these, love their longevity. And such a fine body of work.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I need to look at the placement of that quote mark, FFS. Jesus, I used to be a chief sub-edtior

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can someone do the 'taken us for a Ride gag' here, or will I have to?

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tracy Edwards (Amanda Mealing). In the year above me at school, only at Grange Hill.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Love the way the ‘good’ guys are always referred to by first names. Courtiers first, journalists second.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And on they move to chew on some more flesh. We are all living in a George Romero shopping mall

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just surveyed the rack of today’s headlines in total astonishment. These people really do love the Kool Aid.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whenever I see them I just think ‘Coventry City FC’ blue, circa 1977/78. I suppose racism was having a moment back then, too.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know. 'Give cancer a kicking' etc. 'You got this' blah blah. It's all slogans that stave off reality. My mum's been living with cancer for years now. She says half the battle is dealing with people who don't know how to behave around it.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I find it quite baffling. But then life has always seemed like that to me. I've looked at it for 58 years now and still don't know what it is I'm seeing. But I do find the passive, reverent language people use to creep around death so jarring against the constant tide of misery in the news.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Or at least that's what I've been told by a couple of people I know in some serious chats about illness/cancer/shit stuff

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think sometimes people are frightened to be themselves around bad news. They lurch into an imagined protocol - the thing they think they have to do or say, when it can be so much better if you speak from the heart - even if you say the 'wrong' thing it comes over as more human.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s right up there with ‘Best wishes’ in a leaving card. It’s devoid of any personal touch

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s all for show, isn’t it? Throw out some greatest hits from the tough on causes of crime songbook

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

God, how I hate that phrase. Like the dread ‘thoughts and prayers’ it’s a coping shrug of the shoulders in some sort of mad denial of how brutal life gets

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I didn't pick up on them then, as I was only about 12 or 13. But they're as good as anything else from that time, I'd say. I love the fact that they were so shortlived, too. Makes it all the more interesting. Here for a good time, not a long time!

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Aw, that's a shocker. I've not had real first-hand experience, but I've heard many tales from friends of mums and dads; a friend of my partner's has recently been diagnosed with early onset, and the signs are visible. It's such a tough thing to approach watching someone change like that. x

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's the new approach. It has been decided. The plunger is in place, open your throat to it. And people just parrot back what they're told, because no-one wants to have to think because that's too hard. Anyway, Traitors etc etc.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know Suburban Lawns crop up now and again when cult acts are concerned, but there is never a bad time to watch the Su Tissue 'look' on this. What an extraordinary, shortlived band. So crunchy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyiL...

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Suburban Lawns - "Unable" Live @ Deaf Club 1979

YouTube video by Joanna's Forehead

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And the lead break in I Want Everything is still one of the best I've ever heard. So punchy and urgent.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We were young and excitable. I love Killing Joke, but I hated that venue. Seen it butcher (see what I did there?) so many good acts.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fantastic live act back then - not seen them for an age. I can remember seeing them in my first year away in Sheffield - we saw Killing Joke at The Octagon (terrible sound, as ever, there) and then legged it in a taxi down to The Leadmill just in time for these. Cor, that sounds so mad now.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, the sense of absence was keenly felt with seeing him so big

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Music has had a good few of those, I reckon

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hallospoono! Looks hopeful of second place at least next time

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nicholson’s little dance as well. So many uneasy touches, that deep plush red decor. Might have to watch it again soon.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Haha. Sorry, it was great to see. It was quite a powerful experience in general, though, wasn't it?

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

God, so many bone-chilling scenes - this sequence is right up at the top - that and the one with Grady in the loo. Talking of scary hotels, I just watched The Beyond, a 1981 giallo, another tale of a hotel with a very nasty secret. Sadly, not in Kubrick's class, but a decent blob of ketchup,

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What is wrong with these people?

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