brian91

Shankar, Ravi

Blow Away My Sweet Lord v Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp

Service

Liverpool Lou by the Scaffold Why was their album called "The White Album" ?

Looks pretty good, I was worried it might come accross a bit kareoke.

Beef Jerky

Quarry Men, The

Take It Away Temporary Secretary v With a little luck

Woman

Ono, Yoko

Goodnight Tonight Silly Love Songs v Let em in

....Hire. They really needed the cash to pay for their rodies. Who was The Beatles' original drummer?

Taxpayers are to fund gap years for graduates to keep them off the dole queue, The Times has learnt. Hundreds of university leavers will get public money from Lord Mandelson’s department to help them to travel to places such as Costa Rica, Borneo and India. The class of 2009 — the first to pay top-up fees — faces becoming the “lost generation” in a graduate job market that has shrunk by 20 per cent in the past year. The number of graduates who are unemployed six months after leaving university has reached its highest level since records began, with one in ten not in jobs or further study. Careers experts say that 80,000 will hunt in vain for work this summer. A surge in the number of applicants for university — up 10 per cent on last year — means that the situation for this year’s graduates is expected to worsen. Rising numbers will be graduating every summer, adding to the competition for jobs. Critics said that the Government was “bribing” graduates to go on gap years in order to massage unemployment figures. The first university leavers to take part in the scheme will spend the months up to Christmas living in remote communities and going on expeditions in projects that usually cost £3,000 per person. The advertisement for participants asks: “Have you recently graduated and feel like everything is all doom and gloom?” Joining an overseas expedition “could be just the thing you need to inject some excitement and optimism into your life”. The expedition would “boost your employability skills and help set you apart from the crowd”. The graduates, who must be under 24, will help to build schools and to improve sanitation. They will spend time learning skills that the Government and Raleigh, the gap year company running the programme, say will help them to find jobs when they return to Britain. The TaxPayers’ Alliance reacted with anger to the initiative. Matthew Sinclair, its research director, said: “The Government’s attempts to keep people off the unemployment numbers at any cost are growing more and more transparent. “It’s increasingly clear that whether it’s soft jobs in the public sector or paying for gap years, the important thing is masking the problems in the economy rather than actually delivering value for taxpayers’ money.” Gap years should be paid for by the travellers or their parents, he added. “This kind of charity, paid for out of the taxpayer’s pocket, is unfair and unsustainable.” Alan Smithers, director of education and employment research at the University of Buckingham, said: “The Government doesn’t want to make available thousands of extra places at university, but is funding gap years. It’s really an extraordinary waste of money, just to bring down young people’s unemployment figures. The Government would be better off creating places in education, so young people can develop employable skills for when the economy picks up, instead of having to bribe people to go on gap years.” But David Lammy, the Universities Minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, said that volunteering was particularly beneficial for new graduates. “It can help to develop the communication and leadership skills that are so highly valued in the workplace.” The project is being openly billed as a way for graduates “struggling to find work” to develop “soft skills their CV might lack”. The scheme promises to teach teamwork, leadership, project management and problem-solving. The Government will provide £500,000 for 500 young people to go on the trips and this may be extended in future. Raleigh, with which Prince William travelled during his year out, says that 72 per cent of the money raised goes towards expeditions. This includes staff, accommodation, transport, safety equipment, food, training and medical care. The rest is spent on fundraising, marketing, head office and governance. This summer 300,000 students graduated, the largest group to finish higher education in Britain. They are the first to leave university with debts of £15,000 to £20,000. Graduate debt is at its highest level at £26 billion, compared with £18 billion in 2007. Source: Sunday Times Is this a good use of taxpayers cash, or just a way of masking the real unemployment figures before the election?

Lord Mandelson's unexpected suggestion yesterday that Gordon Brown would be happy to take on David Cameron in a televised debate during the general election campaign. The First Secretary of State said in a newspaper interview that he did not think the Prime Minister "would have a problem with that". It was no slip of the tongue: in a subsequent television appearance he said there should be "open debates between the parties and between the leaders". Yet within hours of Lord Mandelson's intervention, Number 10 had squashed the idea flat. Mr Brown's spokesman said that the PM's views on television debates had not changed: he is against them. Which brings us back to our original question – what did Lord Mandelson mean? Was he seeking to embarrass Mr Brown? If so, he has succeeded. Or did this famously strategic political operator have another plan in mind? Could he have been thinking that by the time of the election, Labour may well have a leader who would both relish the prospect of a televised debate with Mr Cameron, and might even be rather good at it – perhaps, to pluck a name out of the air, Alan Johnson? Easy-going ex-postman pitched against a Tory toff? Who would not want to see that on the telly? Some might see this as being too devious an explanation, but when Lord Mandelson is involved, things are rarely quite what they seem. Source: Sunday Telegraph Should we be going down the road of TV debates for our political leaders like they do in the US? If we did, who would win the debate. Brown or Cameron, or possibly Clegg if got to take part?

The British UFO enthusiast and computer hacker Gary McKinnon lost his latest legal battle yesterday to avoid being extradited to the United States, where he faces up to six decades in a maximum security jail. American prosecutors accuse Mr McKinnon of perpetrating the "biggest military hack of all time" and have vowed to imprison him for breaking into 97 government computers shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks. His supporters say he never meant to cause any damage and was simply looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life, a hobby which had turned into an obsession because he suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. They believe he will be a suicide risk if sent to an American prison. The 43-year-old self-confessed hacker from Wood Green, north London, had gone to the High Court to challenge the decision by successive Home Secretaries, which permitted his extradition to go ahead, and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for refusing to try him in Britain instead of the US. But yesterday Lord Justice Stanley Burnton and Mr Justice Wilkie dismissed those claims and said his extradition across the Atlantic would be "a lawful and proportionate response". The High Court also backed Keir Starmer QC, the DPP, who has refused to try Mr McKinnon in Britain – an act that would save him from extradition. Outside the High Court yesterday, Mr McKinnon's mother, Janis, said the decision was "heartbreaking" and called on the US President Barack Obama to intervene in her son's case. Directly addressing Mr Obama, she said: "Stand by us and make this world a better place, a more compassionate place. "Obama wouldn't have wanted this. He doesn't want the first person extradited for computer misuse to be a guy with Asperger's, a UFO guy. I'm just praying, please hear us, Obama, because I know you would do the right thing." Speaking after the judgment, the Home Secretary Alan Johnson made it clear that, like his predecessors, he had no plans to stop Mr McKinnon's extradition. "Mr McKinnon is accused of serious crimes and the US has a lawful right to seek his extradition, as we do when we wish to prosecute people who break our laws," he said. The Home Secretary's words were in direct contrast to those of the Conservative Party leader David Cameron, who has come out in support of Mr McKinnon and called on the extradition treaty between the US and Britain to be reviewed. "Gary McKinnon is a vulnerable young man and I see no compassion in sending him thousands of miles away from his home and loved ones to face trial," he said. "If he has questions to answer, there is a clear argument to be made that he should answer to them in a British court." Mr McKinnon will not, however, be handed over to US officials just yet. Yesterday his solicitor Karen Todner confirmed she would be appealing to the newly created Supreme Court and was willing to take her client's fight as far as the European Court of Human Rights. She also accused the Government of doing little to ensure that Mr McKinnon would be given bail while awaiting trial, something the Government fought for during the extradition of the so-called NatWest Three – a trio of British businessmen who were indicted for wire fraud during the Enron scandal. As their extradition loomed, the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would try to persuade the Americans to grant them bail until the trial. "In the NatWest Three case the Attorney General flew to America to obtain assurances of bail for them," said Miss Todner. "No such actions have taken place for Gary, nor has he been promised repatriation immediately upon sentence." If Mr McKinnon is sent to the US, prosecutors have indicated he is likely to be held in a "Supermax" prison, usually used for high-risk and violent inmates, because he is considered a flight risk. Source: Independent on Sunday Do you think this guy is a terrorist risk for hacking into US government computers, or is he a poor (but clever) UFO fanatic? To me the USA should be using his skills to upgrade their firewalls, as he got right past them.

A man accused of killing his 11-year-old diabetic daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care has been found guilty of second-degree reckless homicide. Dale Neumann, 47, was convicted over the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors argued he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she could not walk, talk, eat or drink. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family's rural home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called an ambulance when she stopped breathing. Neumann stared at the jury as the verdict was read out yesterday in the courtroom in Wausau, Wisconsin. Defence lawyer Jay Kronenwetter said the verdict would be appealed. Neumann, who once studied to be a Pentecostal minister, testified that he believed God would heal his daughter and he never expected her to die. God promises in the Bible to heal, he said. "If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," Neumann testified. "I am not believing what he said he would do." The father testified that he thought Madeline had the flu or a fever, and several relatives and family friends said they also did not realise how ill she was. Leilani Neumann, 41, was convicted of the same charge in the spring. Marathon County Circuit Judge Vincent Howard set October 6 for sentencing for both parents, who face up to 25 years in prison. Their case is believed to be the first in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin involving faith healing in which someone died and another person was charged with a homicide. Last month, a jury in the western state of Oregon convicted a man of criminal mistreatment for relying on prayer instead of seeking medical care for his 15-month-old daughter, who died of pneumonia and a blood infection in March 2008. Both the girl's parents were acquitted of a more serious manslaughter charge. Source: Independent on Sunday Good, serves him right. There is nothing worse than these holy prayer worshipping deluded idiots. What sane minded parent would sit around and not seek medical help.

1 1 John Travolta And Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want...overplayed somewhat over the years 2 3 Clout - Substitute....I liked this one hit wonder :yahoo: 3 2 Father Abraham And The Smurfs - The Smurf Song...absolute $h!t :puke2: :puke2: 4 4 Marshall Hain - Dancin' In The City....another one I liked :dance: don't think she had another hit 5 5 A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie :puke2: 6 8 Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero :) 7 7 Showaddywaddy - A Little Bit Of Soap :puke2: 8 6 The Boomtown Rats - Like Clockwork :) 9 22 City Boy - 5-7-0-5....thought this was ok :) 10 18 Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring :puke2: 11 21 Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn....Liked this ballad from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" 12 10 Lindisfarne - Run For Home....a gem of a song often forgotten about :cheer: 13 31 Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United....pure dead brilliant 14 23 Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good...great lyrics about the rock star lifestyle :yahoo: 15 12 Jackson Browne - Stay 16 14 The O'Jays - Used Ta Be My Girl :puke2: 17 26 Gladys Knight And The Pips - Come Back And Finish What You Started 18 9 The Motors - Airport....excellent song :cheer: 19 13 Voyage - From East To West/Scots Machine 20 11 The Sex Pistols - No-One Is Innocent/My Way...was ok 21 17 Saturday Night Band - Come On Dance Dance 22 19 Andrew Gold - How Can This Be Love 23 28 Renaissance - Northern Lights :) 24 15 Kate Bush - Man With The Child In His Eyes....sheer class :dance: 25 32 X-Ray Spex - Identity 26 40 Bob Dylan - Baby Stop Crying 27 67 Child - It's Only Make Believe 28 39 The Who - Who Are You....one of their last great songs 29 45 The New Seekers - Anthem :puke2: 30 55 Cerrone - Super Nature...always got played on the Kenny Everitt show :D 31 16 James Galway - Annie's Song :puke2: utter garbage 32 24 Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel 33 20 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper :dance: 34 25 The Rolling Stones - Miss You 35 35 Buzzcocks - Love You More :) 36 33 Raydio - Is This A Love Thing 37 29 AC/DC - Rock And Roll Damnation :) 38 38 The Bee Gees - Night Fever.....you either love them or hate them :lol: 39 30 Heatwave - Mind Blowing Decisions :puke2: 40 52 Quincy Jones - Stuff Like That 41 43 Foreigner - Cold As Ice :) 42 27 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Satisfy My Soul 43 49 Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Shame 44 44 Sheila And B Devotion - You Light My Fire 45 37 Steel Pulse - Prodigal Son 46 NE The Commodores - Three Times A Lady 47 57 KC And The Sunshine Band - It's The Same Old Song 48 51 Suzi Quatro - The Race Is On 49 34 San Jose - Argentine Melody 50 NE UFO - Only You Can Rock Me

First week of August tunes..... 1 1 John Travolta And Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want 2 3 Clout - Substitute 3 2 Father Abraham And The Smurfs - The Smurf Song 4 4 Marshall Hain - Dancin' In The City 5 5 A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie 6 8 Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero 7 7 Showaddywaddy - A Little Bit Of Soap 8 6 The Boomtown Rats - Like Clockwork 9 22 City Boy - 5-7-0-5 10 18 Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon/Brown Girl In The Ring 11 21 Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn 12 10 Lindisfarne - Run For Home 13 31 Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United 14 23 Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good 15 12 Jackson Browne - Stay 16 14 The O'Jays - Used Ta Be My Girl 17 26 Gladys Knight And The Pips - Come Back And Finish What You Started 18 9 The Motors - Airport 19 13 Voyage - From East To West/Scots Machine 20 11 The Sex Pistols - No-One Is Innocent/My Way 21 17 Saturday Night Band - Come On Dance Dance 22 19 Andrew Gold - How Can This Be Love 23 28 Renaissance - Northern Lights 24 15 Kate Bush - Man With The Child In His Eyes 25 32 X-Ray Spex - Identity 26 40 Bob Dylan - Baby Stop Crying 27 67 Child - It's Only Make Believe 28 39 The Who - Who Are You 29 45 The New Seekers - Anthem 30 55 Cerrone - Super Nature 31 16 James Galway - Annie's Song 32 24 Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel 33 20 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper 34 25 The Rolling Stones - Miss You 35 35 Buzzcocks - Love You More 36 33 Raydio - Is This A Love Thing 37 29 AC/DC - Rock And Roll Damnation 38 38 The Bee Gees - Night Fever 39 30 Heatwave - Mind Blowing Decisions 40 52 Quincy Jones - Stuff Like That 41 43 Foreigner - Cold As Ice 42 27 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Satisfy My Soul 43 49 Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Shame 44 44 Sheila And B Devotion - You Light My Fire 45 37 Steel Pulse - Prodigal Son 46 NE The Commodores - Three Times A Lady 47 57 KC And The Sunshine Band - It's The Same Old Song 48 51 Suzi Quatro - The Race Is On 49 34 San Jose - Argentine Melody 50 NE UFO - Only You Can Rock Me

1 1 Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)...never a huge fan of his, found him a bit boring tbh 2 2 Freeez - IOU...I liked this one for some strange reason :yahoo: 3 4 Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch...nah, didn't like him much -_- 4 3 Eurythmics - Who's That Girl?....one of their best songs 5 19 KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up....was ok 6 6 Gary Byrd And The GB Experience - The Crown :huh: 7 8 The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger....not one of their best known tracks but ok 8 10 Bananarama - Cruel Summer :cheer: loved it 9 5 Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me....not bad 10 27 Wham! - Club Tropicana...liked this but hated them :lol: 11 12 Shakin' Stevens - It's Late :puke2: 12 7 Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow :) 13 11 Clubhouse - Do It Again/Billie Jean (Medley) 14 15 Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It :puke2: 15 31 Robert Plant - Big Log...kinda liked this one from Led Zep's front man 16 26 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts :dance: 17 13 Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling :puke2: 18 16 The Cure - The Walk 19 9 Rod Stewart - Baby Jane...suppose it was ok for him 20 29 Creatures - Right Now :cheer: 21 14 Funk Masters - It's Over 22 17 Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop 23 25 Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You...classic song :cheer: 24 42 Elton John - I'm Still Standing....used to like it, but don't anymore 25 65 Herbie Hancock - Rockit :dance: 26 18 Tom Robinson - War Baby :) 27 34 Bruce Foxton - Freak 28 30 Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book 29 28 George Benson - Feel Like Makin' Love 30 20 David Sylvian And Riuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours great song 31 21 Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long 32 22 Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise (Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeh) :) 33 38 Tracie - Give It Some Emotion :) 34 41 Kim Wilde - Love Blonde :cheer: 35 33 The Thompson Twins - Watching :) 36 23 Electric Light Orchestra - Rock 'N' Roll Is King....not one of their best -_- 37 NE Galaxy Featuring Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love) 38 57 Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) 39 24 Iron Maiden - The Trooper 40 48 David Grant - Watching You Watching Me 41 NE Kraftwerk - Tour De France 42 37 Musical Youth - Tell Me Why :puke2: 43 36 Al Jarreau - Trouble In Paradise 44 32 Shalamar - Dead Giveaway 45 76 Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain :puke2: 46 72 The O'Jays - Put Our Heads Together :puke2: 47 35 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money 48 86 Carmel - Bad Day 49 NE The Stranglers - Paradise :huh: 50 61 Saxon - Nightmare

What was around in the first week of August this year... 1 1 Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) 2 2 Freeez - IOU 3 4 Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch 4 3 Eurythmics - Who's That Girl? 5 19 KC And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up 6 6 Gary Byrd And The GB Experience - The Crown 7 8 The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger 8 10 Bananarama - Cruel Summer 9 5 Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me 10 27 Wham! - Club Tropicana 11 12 Shakin' Stevens - It's Late 12 7 Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow 13 11 Clubhouse - Do It Again/Billie Jean (Medley) 14 15 Roman Holliday - Don't Try To Stop It 15 31 Robert Plant - Big Log 16 26 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts 17 13 Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling 18 16 The Cure - The Walk 19 9 Rod Stewart - Baby Jane 20 29 Creatures - Right Now 21 14 Funk Masters - It's Over 22 17 Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop 23 25 Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You 24 42 Elton John - I'm Still Standing 25 65 Herbie Hancock - Rockit 26 18 Tom Robinson - War Baby 27 34 Bruce Foxton - Freak 28 30 Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book 29 28 George Benson - Feel Like Makin' Love 30 20 David Sylvian And Riuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours 31 21 Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long 32 22 Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise (Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeh) 33 38 Tracie - Give It Some Emotion 34 41 Kim Wilde - Love Blonde 35 33 The Thompson Twins - Watching 36 23 Electric Light Orchestra - Rock 'N' Roll Is King 37 NE Galaxy Featuring Phil Fearon - Wait Until Tonight (My Love) 38 57 Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) 39 24 Iron Maiden - The Trooper 40 48 David Grant - Watching You Watching Me 41 NE Kraftwerk - Tour De France 42 37 Musical Youth - Tell Me Why 43 36 Al Jarreau - Trouble In Paradise 44 32 Shalamar - Dead Giveaway 45 76 Modern Romance - Walking In The Rain 46 72 The O'Jays - Put Our Heads Together 47 35 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money 48 86 Carmel - Bad Day 49 NE The Stranglers - Paradise 50 61 Saxon - Nightmare

I'm kinda partial to this one :lol: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/brian91/1995-Sesame-Street-_226835t.jpg

...Man of the World, John was listening to his Fleetwood Mac greatest hits LP at the time :D Why did the Beatles play up on the roof in January 1969?

Used to be bad

McCartney, Linda

Once Upon A Long Ago Junior's Farm v Helen Wheels