I was going to put their album up as a candidate for a running commentary, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Thing_(album)

Running time: 57:17 (Australian version: 61:02)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_of_the_Bridge

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Andrew Welsh of Daily Record wrote that "echoes of the Chameleons' distinctive sound can still be heard today in bands as diverse as the Killers (but without the penchant for angst), Editors and even Pigeon Detectives."[3]

A Wikipedia article about a man who was called Preserved Fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Fish

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...he had an adopted son named William Fish...

Billy the Fish?

Are they sure they're not just making all this up?

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His father and grandfather were also named Preserved Fish.

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As a youth, the younger Preserved Fish shipped to the Pacific on a whaler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_era

The album era was a period in English-language popular music from the mid-1960s to the mid-2000s in which the album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption

Ooh, another new term from that article: a "surprise-release".

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diminishing genre distinctions among artists

So THAT'S why all music sounds the same today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amii_Stewart

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Disco music had by the end of the decade to a great deal arrived at its technical limits as growing anti-Disco sentiment eventually affected the US Music community. A new generation of musicians and fans, while idealizing ideas of authenticity and purity, rejected Disco as artificial, mindless, consumerist etc.[7] Hard hit by the media, industry and markets, tasked with re-invention, had already departed from the Disco phenomenon and begun to feverishly scout for new trends.[4]

Predominantly moderate interest in Stewart's Paradise Bird album, released in September 1979, came as no surprise. However, success and media feedback in Europe was unbroken. Europe's music industry and scene was the sum of many small and diverse outposts. New ideas would certainly be adopted as old ones preserved. Not declaring Disco dead, the UK, for example, was left with a somewhat controverse culture, that fed cynicism. "The rest was a mess", where Punk rock and Diana Ross co-existed. Paradise Bird yielded two European single releases, "Jealousy" (#58 UK, #4 Italy, #5 Switzerland) and the double A-side "The Letter/Paradise Bird" (#39 UK 1980).[8] Stewart, however, remained confident about her career. She told her production team and record label to be "changing styles slowly, so as not get caught in the shuffle". The source of inspiration would be her artistic background of theater, modern dance and melodic music.[4]

What an atrociously bit of writing!

That's what Wikipaedia is all about.

Jamiroquai are today's featured article on the main page of Wikipedia, for the whole world to see!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_record_collectors

Are you on ze list?

I read Bob George as Boy George.

I've probably got a couple of thousand pieces - funny to think that's only 68,000 fewer than Elton John, who famously used to go round record stores pointing out to his staff the CDs he wanted. Which was often a lot, and multiple examples of the same CD if I remember rightly.

Also, Mike Read had more records than John Peel?

No women on the list?

Butterfield wrote:

I read Bob George as Boy George.

So did I,

Is that out of prison now?