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The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed LP on vinyl, featuring Nanette “Newman”, Doris Troy and Madeline Bell. Cover cake created by Delia Smith:
https://therollingstonesshop.co.uk/*/Vinyl/Let-It-Bleed/1J2U12J7000
The Rolling Stones, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, taken from The Rock n Roll Circus. It doesn’t feature the backing singers, but it’s one hell of a version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8
Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Nanette Workman performs Lady Marmalade live, with a certain Celine Dion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3NLfCTLTc
Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Doris Troy performs Just One Look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtqW5G-tZQ
Backing singer on You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Madeline Bell performs I’m Gonna Make You Love Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpY3bdvSNFI
Brooke Bond D Tea advert sung by Madeline Bell, and featuring Boycie (John Challis):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tvIdDCNYk
The Troggs, Wild Thing featuring drummer, Ronnie Bond, writer of the Brooke Bond D Tea Ad music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg
Delia Smith website article about that cake on the Cover of Let It Bleed:
https://www.deliaonline.com/features/2019/10/delia-and-the-rolling-stones
Clare Torry talks about her famous role in Pink Flloyd’s The Great Gig in the Sky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIW7xZSlZoM
Clare Torry’s cover version of Dolly Parton’s Love is Like a Butterfly, used as the theme to the Carla Lane penned BBC sitcom, Butterflies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGUDDtsFDoA
Brotherhood of Man with their Eurovision Song Contest Winner, Save All Your kisses For Me, featuring the dance Helen used to perform as a kid, and the famous wink at Bill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhq_Q1Ut8SQ
Herbie Flowers talks about that famous bass line on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side:
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Die Hard trailer featuring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in his first feature film appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJuwKCmJbY
The Detective trailer featuring Frank Sinatra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odRuy4D-VA
Bruce Willis and The Temptations perform their version of The Drifter’s Under the Boardwalk. There is a good reason you don’t hear this very often on the radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zk56DDjGc
Moonlighting opening and closing titles, featuring the vocals of Al Jarreau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZI9aQLhgk
Glenn Gordon, creator of Moonlighting talks about Orson Welles’ appearance on the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJs3VSVFYCk
and that Orson Welles’ appearance itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ_x_XEQU8
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) goes on a disastrous date with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0ZybzuGcE
The famous “You talking to me” scene from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWL-FwX4t4
Top drawer swears from Robert De Niro playing the role of Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ownaVsRHTk0
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performing their hilarious Goodfellas parody, Badfellas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKBlLyrRMI
Trailer to the world’s sweariest film, Swearnet, The Movie (not for those with sensitive ears):
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, MOMA New York City:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night/bgEuwDxel93-Pg?hl=en-GB
Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: Great Art Explained on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE
You can visit the house Vincent lodged at, in Brixton 1873–74
Don MacLean performs Vincent live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU
Vincent’s The Red Vineyard, the only painting he sold while alive:
Vincent’s most expensive painting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet:
https://www.vincentvangogh.org/portrait-of-dr-gachet.jsp
List of most expensive paintings ever sold:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
Dad’s Army episode The Deadly Attachment, featuring a hand grenade down Lance Corporal Jones’ trousers:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5sdx1f
Ethel Skinner is having trouble with her Willy in Eastenders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmNgaSqX9Y
Clive Dunn performs Grandad on Top of the Pops. The song was written by Herbie Flowers (who played the iconic bass line in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wildside), and features Rick Wakeman on keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC5fqzKxau8
One of the funniest answers ever given on Pointless, featuring Alexander Armstrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTTvn2muRM
Opening theme tune to the original Danger Mouse, written by folkie/comedian, Mike Harding sung by Sheila Gott (not Myfanwy Talog), featuring Penfold (hamster, not mole):
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A classic incorrect answer on University Challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SnI5GGqY8
The house that Bamber Gascoigne inherited:
https://www.westhorsleyplace.org/
Outtakes from BBC’s comedy series Ghosts (shot on location in Bamber Gacoigne’s inherited house):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6DOPitdVU
Bamber Gacoigne penned Share My Lettuce listing
http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_s/sharelettuce.htm
Paddington 2 trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52x5HJ9H8DM
Paddington 2 was co-written and directed by Paul King, but not this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlXtrnh-Ejo
Clip from Lady Godiva Rides Again, the 1951 film featuring Diana Dors and uncredited appearances from Joan Collins and the last woman to be hanged in the UK, Ruth Ellis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waH0HyzKC7I
Channel Four Television’s Who Got Diana Dors’ Millions?
Adam and the Ants, Prince Charming video featuring Diana Dors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p__WmyAE3g
Rolf Harris performs War Canoe which Prince Charming is a clear rip off of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2SOEVbKsTE
Rolf Harris performs Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport with The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd14NxZuvGg
Connie Francis performs Lipstick on Your Collar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8x5cUFoDnU
Johhny Cash, Fuego D’Amor (Ring of Fire in Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0u5d2vQ8fw
David Bowie performs Helden (Heroes in German)
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George Bernard Shaw’s shed at Shaw’s Corner, National Trust:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/george-bernard-shaws-garden
Photograph of George Bernard Shaw with Vivien Leigh at Shaw’s Corner:
https://anniebeebuzz.com/2015/08/22/surprising-finds-5-a-revolving-writers-hut/
Gone With The Wind Trailer starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh featuring a halitosis-ridden kiss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X94oZgJis4
Opening scene to The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrew featuring the shot from the helicopter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fH2FOn1V5g
A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews featuring her whistling robin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4qauTiCY4
2003 World Whistling Champion David Morris whistles Flight of the Bumblebee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFhgMvxH40
Yuki Takeda whistles his rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHHr1SKjycQ
Bumblebee Conservation Trust:
https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/
Sylvia Plath’s bee-based poems:
https://thebeeproject.weebly.com/sylvia-plath-and-the-bee-poems.html
The Beatles, She Said She Said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLzfo59AdEc
Peter Fonda inspires John Lennon and kills his buzz in the process:
https://reelrundown.com/celebrities/Peter-Fonda-and-the-Beatles
Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison how to play the sitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxI6IkH9Mvo
Ravi Shankar’s homage to Gandhi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU4gwtrkXRI
Surprising appearances on Coronation Street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD2zlufPGqg
Cinzano advert featuring Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkjidE0WnAI
Clark Gable in It Happened One Night, the inspiration behind Bugs Bunny’s carrot crunching:
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Casanova trailer. Heath Ledger didn’t much care for his performance in this film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSt1NFGgVUs
An amazing performance from Heath Ledger as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, starring Christain Bale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXeTwQWrcwY
Johnny Rotten pens a song for Kate Bush
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-song-johnny-rotten-wrote-for-kate-bush/
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush perform Don’t Give Up. Peter had Dolly Parton in mind for the duet when he wrote it, apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
Video for Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill featuring the extraordinary dancing of Michael Hervieu who became Misha after gender reassignment surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM
Jonathan Swift’s essay on the benefits of farting
Benny Hill performs Tinga A Ling A Loo which he claims was plagiarised by Spitting Image for their no.1 novelty hit, The Chicken Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFrt3V7nvI
Elvis’s saxophonist performs Yakety Sax, used in the Benny Hill Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcq_xLi2NGo
Blue Hawaii trailer, starring Elvis Presley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10-aqZKLKY
Did Colonel Tom Parker really go on the run after a murder, to become Elvis’s manager?
https://www.grunge.com/224820/was-elvis-manager-a-killer-on-the-run/
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Pennycomequick’s Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennycomequick
Wetwang Village:
https://www.wetwang.org.uk/wetwang-history/
Croatia’s strangely named places:
https://www.croatiaweek.com/the-many-strange-place-names-of-croatia/
Fugging (formely Fucking) in Austria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria
Shitterton, Dorset in Bournemouth Echo
Einstein’s leather jacket:
https://www.christies.com/features/5-minutes-with-Einsteins-leather-jacket-7510-1.aspx
Levi’s 1985 advert, starring Nick Kamen, featuring Marvin Gaye’s I Heard it Through the Grapevine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwG_wym3p68
Eddie Kidd vs Robbie Kneivel (Evel’s son) in 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSUn922fZLc
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder et al, A Toot and a Snore, 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhTY-k5epD0
Cilla Black’s version of the Righteous Brothers’ You;ve Lost That Loving Feeling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0HaJcirCVI
Bad Finger perform Come And Get It, written by Lennon/McCartney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOnbeNAxdU
Andrew Olham’s ad in Melody Maker praising Phil Spector’s You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling:
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Shirley MacLaine meets Fidel Castro.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/photos/shirley-maclaine-years-46804747/image-46808414
Shirley Temple’s mother always gave her 56 curls, not 55, not 57.
The Partridge Family opening theme, starring Shirley Jones and her real life step son, David Cassidy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiKa51ll-k
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks, Clash of the Titans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDBd6-SGo4
Shirley Bassey performs Burn My Candle, considered too saucy for the BBC who banned it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIdxoo4QcI
Bowie’s Space Oddity set to pictures of Apollo 11’s moon landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVYwyWYpkU
George Formby performs My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock, too euphemistic for the BBC who banned it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQ6Wmbi5ig
The Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band iconic cover
Trailer for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Writer, Tennesse Williams purportedly hated the movie version