Showing posts with label The Queen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Queen. Show all posts

Friday, 9 September 2022

How can you laugh when you know I'm down?

Artist: Jeni Amos Rodger

It's subjective, I know, but my favourite London bridge is Chelsea Bridge. To the best of my knowledge this particular Thames crossing is still very much up. Billy Strayhorn wrote a song about it in 1941 (even though he got it confused with Battersea Bridge - the next one along). Strayhorn is not unique in getting his bridges mixed up.

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Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)


Thursday, 21 April 2016

Giving it 90

Paul McCartney reckons that despite Her Majesty being a pretty nice girl, she doesn't have a lot to say; perhaps later on this evening, when she’s walked the corgis, kicked off her green wellies, thrown the tiara on the back of the sofa and had a couple of gins, she’ll open up. Happy Birthday, Queenie.

The Beatles - Her Majesty