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b'The song I\\u2019ve sent you this week is one I wrote for David Alexander back in the day\\u2026.it\\u2019s close to the anniversary of his sad passing\\u2026and I know he was very popular in Spain. It is called \\u201cLet\\u2019s Keep It Simple\\u201d which he recorded and put it on his album celebrating his marriage to Penny Page\\u2026..I wrote a pot of stuff for them both\\u2026including the title track of the album\\u2026great guy..I miss him.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s been a busy week\\u2026.top of the range songwriter Barry Mason is coming to do a show at our weekly Cheshirecats rock and roll nights which we put on every Wednesday. I\\u2019ve put a band together to back him consisting of Derek Green on bass (ex Del Renas)\\u2026.Tony Cavanagh on drums\\u2026myself on guitar and a young genius called Paul Rowbottom on keyboards\\u2026because Barry sings in some very strange keys and we are working with songs arranged by the great Les Reed it is a major challenge to say the least \\u2026so we have been rehearsing and we\\u2019re getting there\\u2026.should be a great show and a feather in the cap of our organisation.\\nAnd this week it was nice to see Lee Curtis who brought his band along and Brian \\u201cGriff\\u201d Griffiths of The Big Three turned up (he\\u2019s on holiday from the States) and did a spot\\u2026so it\\u2019s all happening at the moment.\\n\\nAlso on the music scene I read in the paper that Van Morrison has been knighted\\u2026I know the guy is a great musician and has a big following but\\u2026knighted? I like his music but he\\u2019s got no stage personality\\u2026.so you may as well sit at home and listen to one of his CDs\\u2026..I\\u2019ve said it once and I\\u2019ll say it again \\u2026when is Ken Dodd going to receive his knighthood?\\u2026he has to be the greatest entertainer in history\\u2026and has given so much to show business\\u2026.I don\\u2019t know how they come up with the names\\u2026.(I wont mention Sir Jimmy Savile\\u2026and Sir Rolph Harris)\\n\\nThere\\u2019s been a lot of complaints about parents parking outside schools when dropping their children off\\u2026it has been suggested by some empy headed politician that the teachers should be given the power to slap a parking ticket on offending cars\\u2026.oh!\\u2026that\\u2019s a good idea\\u2026that will go a long way to help teacher parent relations\\u2026.most people are fine but you\\u2019ll always get the odd one who doesn\\u2019t consider anyone but their stupid selves\\u2026that\\u2019s a given\\u2026not to mention the aggression which the teachers are not paid to endure. On top of all this a head teacher was interviewed on breakfast TV by the unbearable Piers Morgan who was asking really intelligent questions like \\u201cAre you happy to make disabled people have to park some distance away and have to struggle to get their kids into school\\u201d\\u2026which is about the level of Mr.Morgan\\u2019s intelligence\\u2026.the whole point is to prevent the loss of life of a youngster\\u2026.it only takes some fool in a hurry to back over a kid then everyone will jump on that bandwagon.\\n\\nA possible answer would be to have a proper contract drawn up with the rules and regulations of the school which the parents must sign\\u2026.if parents break the rules they are in breach of contract.\\n\\nI had to laugh at a documentary on BBC4 about the rock band Uriah Heap\\u2026.two of the original members were reminiscing about the old days\\u2026so funny. They said they were travelling first class everywhere and throwing big parties and didn\\u2019t realise that it was coming out of THEIR money\\u2026.they made an album called \\u201cHigh and Mighty and decided to promote it with a photo session in the revolving restaurant at the top of a mountain in Switzerland (the one in the James Bond film) and invited the press to come along and enjoy the \\u201cfree\\u201d travel and booze\\u2026when they got to the photo session a fight broke out amongst the band members so there was no photo session\\u2026.now THIS is rock and roll. That\\u2019s what these young hopefuls don\\u2019t realise\\u2026.the record companies give you nothing\\u2026it\\u2019s YOUR money you are blowing.'