Love biographies, preferably music related but will try anything really. Here’s a recent second hand purchase, great read.
The Davis brothers were quite unpleasant and fucking crazy! 😂

All the above are great reads

Black Postcards. Dean Wareham.

All about Galaxie 500 and Shimmydisk.

Playing the Bass with 3 Left Hands is great.

Will Carruthers. All about his time in Spacemen 3.

Great book.

I’ve got that! It is and I love spacemen 3!
I see that the thread has got a few more replies since my last log in.
Thanks for the recommendations, it’ll keep me going while my bust leg heals having broken it in several places after a fall. 👍🏼🤕

Spacemen 3 and the birth of Spiritualized - Erik Morse

Acid for the Children - Flea

Sonic Life - Thurston Moore

Meet Me In The Bathroom - Lizzy Goodman

All good music stuff.

And you will have read A Very Irregular Head - Rob Chapman. About Syd.

Definitive. In my opinion the canon version of the events surrounding him. Everything else is just heresay compared to it. Even the Floyd’s own accounts. They never really knew him.

Got that Syd one, I’ve got half a dozen Syd books including the one he signed not long before he passed. Love Syd as you can tell from my avatar 👍🏼
Those others look tasty though…

Ohhh I’m going to get this love a music bio!! Can highly recommend

Dear boy - keith moon
Doctor ozzy- ozzy osbourne
Thanks a lot mr kibblewhite - Roger Daltery
Inside out - nick mason
Set the night on fire - Robbie Krieger

Got the Moon one, great book. Need to check those others. Ducking love the Doors!

A Bit Of A Blur. Alex James 😂

Bad Vibes - Luke Haines

Looks like I need Polly’s help with my images….

I can highly recommend Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country For Old Men, The Road) Blood Meridian. Read with caution, this book put images in my head, that I cannot erase. However, it’s beautifully written and is considered, one of the greatest novels to come out of America.

Good luck, it took me 3 attempts.

I’ve read it and I found it hard going. It’s a dark book, and like you I had a few nightmares after reading it. Not a book I’d ever re read.

Lanark. Alasdair Gray
Espedair St / The Bridge. Ian Banks
Food of The Gods: Terence McKenna

On the go at the moment.

Anything by Jeff Noon. Especially Vurt and Pollen. Falling out of Cars is also great.

Neal Stephenson has a free similar books. Listened to a few of his recently. I prefer him to Gibson.

Snow Crash is totally seminal

Jeff Noon kicks both Gibson and Stephenson’s arses though

Can you suggest any of his books? I listened to vurt and It wasn’t for me, just didn’t like it

Warlord chronicles - Bernard Cornwell.

I fucking love the mist born series!

I’m reading the “Night Angel Trilogy” at the moment, if you like mist born, this is something you’ll enjoy 👍

Thank you for the suggestion I will check it out 👍

Think and grow rich by Napoleon hill was my daily read/listen for about 3 years, really impacted my perspective on everything.

Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell.

The movie was decent too. If you like the Wachowskis.

Night angel Trilogy

Half way through book 2 in this series, well worth a read👍

Some random reads I’ve enjoyed

Mad world my masters - John Simpson (the news reader bloke)
All of Dom Jolly’s books are good
All james Herriots are Nice easy funny reads are all

Trying to get back into reading a bit more , about to finish dead souls by Gogol then onto Bury my heart at wounded knee by Dee Brown

Really liked this older stuff, I think the last one I read was new... maybe lost symbol or something along those lines... not as impressed.

If you want a real good read, The Girl with the dragon tattoo books are very good 👍

I know it's not finished yet, and I'm still convinced that there's no way he'll ever complete the story in one more book, and if he just released the originally announced trilogy in 4 parts we'd all be happier and he'd make more money. Anyway:

The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss

Really love his writing and the rich fantasy world that he creates for Kvothe to inhabit gripped me from the start of the 1st book, The Name Of The Wind. 12 years now since he released book 2. Every time he posts anything on social media he's trolled as hard as George R.R. is, but I gave up on Game Of Thrones years ago, both the books and the TV adaptation, which is a shame as all of his writing is brilliant. It also means that I'll never finish my leather bound collection of A Song Of Ice And Fire...

Ooof another vote for Patrick Rothfuss. The current lady tomato is a big fan and I’ve found fantasy wasn’t my bag……until she made me agree to read name of the wind.

Great stuff!

Have you read The Slow Regard of Silent Things? That was a nice, if short, story focussing on Auri. The writing style seemed quite different too, but an enjoyable expansion. Looking forward to him telling Bast's story in The Narrow Road Between Desires in November. He's expanding the world, and he's interested in telling the stories, so just give us 2 more Kvothe books and give the story the quality of ending that it deserves!

I’ve got to work through the rest, my partner is evangelical about Rothfuss and basically buys the books for anybody’s birthday and 9.5/10 people love it!

Is the latest one due in November? It’s been a long wait!

12 years since the last book in the trilogy! But unfortunately its not book 3 in November, it's another novella like The Slow Regard of Silent Things. As you can imagine people online aren't happy that he isn't spending all of his spare time writing the last book, but I'd imagine he's spent quite a bit of time not writing that book since the last was released.

I never tried the GOT books, I loved the tv series, but felt like reading the books after 8 seasons of tv would be a lot of time to invest.
I’m nearing the end (so far) of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight trilogy and have “Name of the wind” loaded in my Kindle to start next. 👍

I don't think it's worth reading now. He's made his money with the TV rights and whatever so at his stage in life he's set, so he's never finishing that story. A shame though as the books were (obviously) much richer and with more characters than the TV series, and the plotlines were different nearer the end too.

Have you read any Dragonlance books? The War Of The Lance trilogy is superb (packaged in one book as Chronicles), as is the follow-up trilogy, Legends. The Tales collection is good, if a bit hit or miss, but they kinda lost me after that.

Excellent recommendation, MR 👍. I read the Dragonlance books around 30 years ago (?). Hadn't read in a while and my friend got me back into it with the Legends books. Had a brief fling with D&D when very young and didn't think I'd enjoy the books/world but absolutely loved the character Raistlin. Went back and read the others after (not the best order!) Very enjoyable and I've recently thought about rereading them. Other things I enjoyed back then were Raymond E Feist's 'Riftwar' books (starting with Magician), and Stephen R Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant' books. Desperately need to get back into my reading again 👍

Raistlin was definitely my favourite too as there was so much nuance to the character, and the development of the consequences of their search for power. Apparently they're potentially doing something with the Dragonlance IP again, after some legal wrangling with Weiss and Hickman a couple of years ago. Considering how well it could be adapted into a pretty long fantasy series I'm surprised no-one's ever bothered to do it.

Love the earlier Julian May stuff. The Golden Torc etc.

Not tried dragonLance books, not even come across them TBH, but will definitely look into them 👍

They were released in the mid/late '80s and it's all TSR/D&D linked and they're looking at introducing a Dragonlance campaign world for D&D 5e. It's been a rights nightmare for years, and there were issues with the original authors and what was being done with their work. I definitely hope it happens as they created a really rich world in those 6 books in particular, and really make you care for characters with strong storylines. Easily adapted to D&D with a decent DM.

Just finished “The Name Of The Wind” 👍👍 Starting book 2 tonight

That's awesome! You can take your time reading it...

Finished book 2… gutted to discover book 3 after 10 years+ is still not finished.
Excellent read, looking for something new now.👍

I've just reading the short novel he recently released that focuses on Bast, 'The Narrow Road Between Desires'. If he ever releases the 3rd book I'll be amazed. Glad you enjoyed what he has written though, it's well worth anyone's time.

Just started “The Powder Mage” trilogy, it gets good reviews, so here’s hoping 🤞

I'll have to Google that. I also currently have in my 'to read' pile The Dying Earth by Jack Vance, and it's supposed to be what inspired the idea of spell slots and levels for D&D magic users. Had it for years, and have still not read it.

The powder mage didn’t tweak my initial interest so I’ve parked it for now… Started on “ The Lies of Locke Lamora” Gentlemen Bastards series, liking it so far

I’ve just started “The Liveship Traders” trilogy by Robin Hobb, slow to start but gets great reviews, so I’ll stick with it.

Nearing the end of “The Liveship Traders” trilogy…. Well worth a read.
Looking for a new series / trilogy

Kenny Dalglish ,legend

Oh man, imagine a team with dalglish & souness today.
Number 11

George best😉

Never forgotten 🥰
Number 2

Davie Cooper
not a football fan but my dad was and he took me to the games and we went to Davie Coopers testimonial.

Legend.

Number 1.
Bonus points for making me google him 😂

Harambe!

Brb signing onto next account for another go 😂

A footballer? A celebrity? A legend.
Facts. Sadly missed and as we all know it’s all gone completely to shit since his death.
Rest in power big guy.
Number 15

Michael owen

My god the pace and excitement of young Owen made me think England would start winning World Cup knock out games again.
Also underrated as a pundit and no doubt a decent guy too.
Number 13

Bet you have this on your Santa’s list

Ian Rush

Top tier for the Tash alone!
Number 33

Robbie fowler 💯👌🔥

Number 51

Stokie so its gotta be Stanley Matthew's. Cant forget about Gordon banks though

Matthews is one I wish I’d seen. No way there’s that much hype if it’s not justified 🙏🏻
Number 10

Dave Mackay, a legend at Heart Of Midlothian and Tottenham Hotspur.

Also Drew Busby played for Heart Of Midlothian FC.
RIP.

Mackay was an absolute legend. A name that deserves to be remembered forever!
Number 9.

I've had the pleasure of being in Dave's company and listening to some of his stories, what a guy he is, and as you say "a legend and a name that deserves to be remembered forever" RIP ❤️❤️

Eric Cantona!

There’s one knobhead in Croydon that will never forget the king!
Not sure I feel the same about his music though!
Number 5

Never saw him play, but read the book about him, amazing read…..Robin Friday…Reading FC…..from what I read could have been up there with best of them but for his demons……massively recommend reading the book, specially if you are a football fan….

Heard the name a lot, this is deffo worth a look. This passage alone jumps out “ Following a number of incidents, on and off the field—including kicking Mark Lawrenson in the face mid-game ” I think we’ve all fancied that before.
Number 3.

Congrats CLEARH20.
Winner with number 45.
Thank you so much everyone for all your blasts from the past!!
I’ll run another comp next week as this has been so much fun.
Next time I’ll keep
It within prove it borgs rules 🙏🏻

Peter shamichael ( please excuse the spelling)

Frog splash 🐸
Number 41

Got to be Gaza. Paul Gascoigne what a player

Not a single word of argument from me. Iconic.
Number 40

Basically anyone mentioned in Ant and Decs long forgotten song ‘We’re on the ball’ 😂

Nailed it. You should be a sky sports pundit 😂
Number 37

Ravanelli ✌️

Back when foreign talent was genuinely exciting. Imagine being so good you made Middlesbrough glamorous!
Number 34

Got to be Terry butcher !! That bandaged head!! Lol

I’ll start going all ‘old man’ and ‘not like it used to be’ if we start talking about that big beautiful bastard.
Number 22

If we're talking best players then Dennis Bergkamp. As for forgotten players I'd have to go with Michael Thomas, I'll never forget him, but he was responsible for the greatest end to a season there will ever be and he's not exactly a household name.

Thomas has his place in history it took until AGUEEEEERO for anyone to come close.
Number 18

Nobby stiles

A legend for the dance moves alone!
Number 16

It’s a toss up between Dennis Irwin and David Ginola 😂😂

If you settle on Ginola I’ll fix it for you to win.
That man did things to me in the 90’s that still confuse me now 🥰The fact that he’s become a meditation and wellness guru on some sort of French commune just makes me love him more. I’m sure he lurks LB looking for smoke 😂
Number 4

😂😂😂 genuinely had me laughing out aloud.

The guy had men having the cleanest hair for a while!

Bring back Ginola 😂😂

Duncan Edwards

Never forget the big man. What a sad story.
Number 6

Morten Gamst Pedersen.

The streets will never forget.

The streets 😂😂😂
That’s a classic name. Right up there with zoltan Gera.
Number 7

Garrincha

Google returns this gem:
Off the pitch, Garrincha partied as hard as he played. He is said to have lost his virginity aged 12, to a goat. Later he drove over his father while drunk.
Say no more 🤐
Number 8

Frank ribery

Paolo Di Canio

Yang molby

Just a reminder due to the intervention of ‘prove-it’ Borg the result of todays draw will be decided by the score of the first batsman dismissed in the West Indies v England cricket match starting at 13:30 GMT.
England win the toss and bat first so keep your eyes peeled on the first wicket down and your number in the draw.
If by some miracle the score goes beyond our final entrant we’ll go back around.

Peter Schmeichel

Number 77

Santi Corzola

Number 76

Jimmy savile

Oof
Number 74

John Flanagan (Scouse Cafu)

Number 75

Darren Fletcher

Number 73

Johnny Ekstrom, that guy could hit ‘em! Always remember him from European ties in the mid 80’s for Gothenburg. Used to always be him in the playground!

Number 72 👍🏻

For me, it's gotta be Wayne Rooney. Ever since I found out we're slightly related, his games connect with me so much more. Legend.

Number 72

Robin Friday

Number 71

Lee chapman!

Number 70

David ginola

Perfect number for a perfect specimen.
Number 69

dado prso

XD :D ;_;

61

dave mackay

62

George Best what a player coming from a Arsenal fan.