Imaginary Tales

  Just thought I would share this special moment. So, as a vintage / record dealer / collector, you spend a lot of time looking through piles of disappointment such as Russ Conway's greatest musical treacheries; Russ Conway may have sold hundreds of millions of records, but I don’t want them. Nobody does. Sometimes fate smiles upon you. Yesterday in a charity shop and town that will remain secret until 2055 when I will release details, I found a pile of fresh pleasure (I’m not sure what the opposite of disappointment is strictly.) I was in a hurry to get somewhere so I didn’t have time to check every record on the phone, looking at Matrix numbers etc. So I had to go on my own semi-expertise. I made a really big offer on all 220 ish lps. It was a bit dry mouth and heart pounding time because it was 4x more than I paid the dentist last week (She gave me no LPS but did play stirring classical music as she worked) but as soon as I saw THE ZOMBIES Odeyssey (sic) and Oracle in there in ...

  Imaginary Tales                 As Greek keyboard legend Manvukis prepares to release his 50th studio album, we look back at his career so far.   Manvukis Argyros emerged in the prog rock scene in Greece in the late 1960s, in the band ‘Manvukis and the 13 Seas of Temptation’.  The band soon realised that staying in their native Greece was probably not going to give them access to the scene they so needed to be a part of to achieve success and so they moved to Cumbria, on the advice of guitar player Rudy (West German by birth) Klanger who had heard from a touring British musician some years earlier that this is where ‘it was at’.  After 3 weeks playing Ludo in a damp cottage in the North of England, they realised their mistake and hired a van to move their equipment and belongings to Camden. The band had yet to achieve any success and had very little money. Consequently they had to live together in a small 2 bedroom flat...