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The unhappy lot of the poor guitar technician; forever doomed to be the prat out back with a file and a spanner, helping to make the stars' lives and sounds just that much better. Contains gratuitous obscenity. You have been warned. True, though...

respect...

The Moody Blues had a hit with the original version of this. It's been quite heavily er, "modified" here. I worked for these people. They weren't impressed with me and I wasn't impressed by them. Contains gratuitous obscenity. You have been warned.

Commissioned and written for the animated film:- "Ukulele God", the brief was to produce something with as much inuendo as possible but with absolutely no rude words; hence contains no gratuitous obscenity!!!

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Click thumbnail for full-sized image Click thumbnail for full-sized image. 12_string harp with three melody strings on fretless ebony. This is how a piece of Formica™® worktop used as a sound table can sound. Hear also:- "Sarah"

For techno-phobes everywhere. Even though things have got considerably better since this was written, Bill Gates really hasn't sorted it out yet, has he? "Gooey screen". Really ought to contain gratuitous obscenity. click

Fizzle the pet dinosaur 1980 Written by Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones in 1965 for a band I was in, called The Method. That's me playing the guitar how Ron showed me. Scratchy acetate rescued from a flooded cellar !

Oggy - designed 1980 In 1980 I was asked to design a set of childrens' toy characters as a family for a TV animation series, and to write the music. Saved from duff cassette. The sad story of a lost rubber band? Maybe the rubber band fairies will come to the rescue... we heard you lost your rubber band...

asteroid collision Proof that one really shouldn't attempt epic-proportioned mega-production on just eight tracks...

"Ven ze rockets go up, I don't care vehre zey come down; zat's not vot I'm paid for", says Werner Von Braun... (from an idea by Cyril Molyneux).

"Meinungsverschiedenheit":- A slight difference of opinion.

The true meaning of life in a nutshell. This was due for broadcast on BBC radio the week Princess Diana died so I had to remove the fourth verse. That's absolutely jam side down for sure.

They say the best stuff comes from life rather than fiction. Inspired by a broken light bulb and a broken (non-started) relationship. Do people still do relationships?

Just never got started here. Love between two would-be Romeo and Juliet victims. Better to stay alive.

Something I intended for the Jacuzzi company to use in an advertising campaign. It never happened. The acoustic guitar instrumental version of this is much better - coming soon (2004), hopefully.

Commisioned medium-wave radio jingle 1995. Says it all, really. Sincerely wish it contained gratuitous obscenity.

Could it be that the ultimate formula has now been found?

enough, already!