21/04/2025 by Peter Viney
A UK label 1967-1970. It started as if it was going for prog / psych with British artists like Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera and Zoot Money, then swiftly switched to a straight soul label. In many ways it was a British outlet for Epic. Soul artists included Sly & The Family Stone and The Chambers Brothers. The first Taj Mahal albums were CBS Direction in the UK. Follow the link:
https://aroundandaroundcom.wordpress.com/cbs-direction/
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17/04/2025 by Peter Viney
We had found a pile of old Sunday Times Culture magazines and Karen glanced through before binning them, and came across Camilla Long’s original 2015 review. In some shock, she said, ‘She prefers it to the Julie Christie version (aka John Schlesinger version / 1967 version / Terence Stamp version).
‘Impossible!’ I said.
‘Let’s watch it again to see.’
So we did. The review follows here. The 2015 film got a rough ride from Hardy fans and John Schlesinger fans. In retrospect (third viewing) it’s better than I remembered. In particular the balance between the characters has altered which helps the story.
SEE: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (2015) follow the link.
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15/04/2025 by Peter Viney
The label that encompassed Bruce Springsteen, The Clash AND The Wombles. This might be the largest article on Around & Around and it does very little after 2000 too. This was a labour of love, but a very lengthy one. It’s the era when CBS / Columbia arguably became the worlds’s biggest record label. Springsteen, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, David Essex, The Clash, Bangles, Earth Wind & Fire, Marvin Gaye … and many others. SEE CBS / COLUMBIA POST 1973 (follow link)
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13/04/2025 by Peter Viney
It’s just ended at Bath Theatre Royal, where it premiered. I fear it’s unlikely to go further after near universal two star reviews. However ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: THE MUSICAL (follow link) has many virtues, and is a lesson on what can go wrong even with a superb cast. It takes eight stories out of the 268 that Hitchcock presented on TV between 1955 and 1962, and intertwines them. Do read the review from general theatre interest. I included plot spoilers
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06/04/2025 by Peter Viney
We found a pile of Anglo-Continental School of English brochures when tidying up. That’s where Karen and I met in 1971, and where we started performing, then writing. I was there until 1980. I scanned several photos and added them to the existing article THE SWISS CONNECTION (follow the link) That’s on the Swiss influence on ELT.
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14/03/2025 by Peter Viney
At Around and Around. Possibly esoteric for non-collectors though there is a lot to look at.
CBS / Columbia 45 design
An article on UK designs for CBS / Columbia
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09/03/2025 by Peter Viney
Review of Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Edward II’ at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre (follow link). This production is about a gay king, preferring his favourite, Gaveston, against all his barons. RSC artistic director Daniel Evans excels in the lead role. it’s the basic Marlow play I’m unsure about.
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09/03/2025 by Peter Viney
The Royal Shakespeare Company presents its first major HAMLET in 9 years, an event. Follow the link to the review. This is directed by Rupert Goold and features Luke Thallon as Hamlet. It will forever be known as the sea-going Hamlet. Elsinore is a ship. Plot spoiler: they all die at the end.
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03/03/2025 by Peter Viney
For years people mention the same Streamline English units …
We have often thought of redoing them, using retro pictures or AI. We have done one.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO: STREAMLINE REVISITED …
From there you will find information, and a link to the reimagined unit, in the version we finished and planned in 2005 which was never published. This one was variously called I Want You, Fiona or I Love You, Fiona or Love Isn’t Everything in different editions.
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02/03/2025 by Peter Viney
At AROUND & AROUND: CBS / Columbia – Bruce Springsteen (follow the link)
The Springsteen section grew too long for the CBS / Columbia post 1973 article, so it has its own article.
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