At the end of last week JG and myself embarked on another of the Welsh Bards guided tours of the back street pubs of Oxford.
Lunch this time was courtesy of HM Inspector of Taxes who had unexpectedly been very generous to the Werewolf in the refund department but not until we had first consumed several pints at various excellent hostelries.
Our first port of call was the Eagle and Child in St. Giles where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien used to meet and discuss all matters literary over 70 years before.
Our discussions took a rather less academic course and, following the Welsh Bards account of his meeting with a barman in the Park Tavern in Chichester who had been the Stage Manager of the West End musical "Telstar" about the life and times of record producer and manager Joe Meek, we entered into an OAP's nostalgia trip trying to remember obscure record titles of the sixties.
Especially for the Bard here's a "Reminder" compilation of videos of some of the tracks we were struggling to remember starting with Mr. Meeks favourite young chap!
The Shadows eat your heart out!
and finally a brace of classics from Bristol's answer to Tchaikovsky:-
