Friday favourite 143

Newsnight is carrying an interview with a now 60 year old John Lydon.  So just to make you feel old here is a 30 year old John with Rise...

Friday favourite 142

It's been a while - but not as long as it has taken Hibs to win the Scottish Cup (which is the oldest football trophy in the world, by the way), so it's definitely time for a tune.

So here's some football fans celebrating winning it after 114 years.  It is of course the Friday favourite to end all Friday favourites...

Friday favourite 141

Here are Aussie Beatles tribute band Beatnix performing Led Zep's 'Stairway to Heaven' as if it were 1962.

It's absolute genius...

Friday favourite 140

Stumbled across this the other night.  And what's not to like a Quebecois rockabilly cover version of Blondies' Call Me...

Friday favourite 139

A rather splendid accoustic version of the Guns n' Roses classic:

Exclusive: Ed Miliband reveals new supporters at last minute rally

Rock legends Spinal Tap come out as Miliband supporters.  Exclusive footage here:

Friday favourite 138

At last an African charity single this blog can endorse:

John Lennon - an alternative view of the 'secular saint'

I stumbled across this earlier today via Facebook.  And it is well worth sharing...

Friday favourite 137

BBC Four are doing a remarkable job in re-running TOTP from the 70s without featuring some of their now unsavoury presenters. Anyway here's the Stranglers from tonight's edition...

Blondie live in 78

Enjoy...

Friday favourite 135

This is for Tim Snowball, the Liberal Democrats' Director of Political Operations:

Friday favourite 134

The beeb have run a series of documentaries about ABBA over the festive season.  And it reminded me of just how complex their songs are.  And it is also an opportunity to feature this 1984 Blancmange cover of 'The day before you came'.

Friday favourite 133

Had an interesting work trip to Leicester earlier in the week, and was rather disappointed not to bump in to the estimable Lord Bonkers.  But anyway its really just an excuse to feature Leicester's finest, Kasabian...

Friday favourite 132

RIP Madiba.

Friday favourite 131

In the unlikely event that my reader doesn't know it but today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy.  So here's how David Frost, Millicent Martin and TW3 did it at the time:

Friday favourite 130

Just finished watching BBC's 4 documentary about the 50th anniversary of the Beatle's Please, Please Me album - which featured various artists mainly making a hash of covering the songs.  So here's the original with John Lennon being cheeky to the Queen Mother at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963.

Friday favourite 129

With reports that Saudi Arabia have procured Pakistani nuclear weaponry, nuclear proliferation is back on the agenda.  So here's Tom Lehrer - whose first album is 60 years old this year and is still going strong at 85 - with 'Who's next?'.

Friday favourite 128

With an extremely tenuous link to today's departure of yet another Hibs manager - the good natured and honourable Pat Fenlon - here are probably the most famous Hibee musicians - Craig and Charlie Reid with their debut performace on the Tube with a tongue tied Paula Yates fluffing her pronunciation ...

Lou Reed - a life on the wild side

I didn't get round to doing a Friday favourite this week, but with the sad news of the death of Lou Reed today, here he is with a live version of the seminal 'Walk on the wild side'.

Friday favourite 127

Still haven't worked how to get the video off my phone from Monday's Wilko Johnson gig, but fortunately with YouTube I don't have to...