Missing Link

....... and another 'Big Australian' - this time the 'Big Ned Kelly' in Glenrowan, Victoria where here was a bushranger.

A couple more from Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.

They like 'big things' in Australia too. Here's the 'Big Murray Cod' in Swan Hill, Victoria (no, I didn't catch it!).

Love taking pictures of 'Street Art' as opposed to 'graffiti'. Melbourne (Australia not Derbyshire) is a brilliant place for it. Here's one with a message ?

Curtis Mayfield singing 'Pusherman' in the 'Superfly' movie.

Chess Records after Phil and Leonard Chess though that is the Anglicised version of their Polish name Szcy.

Just returned from a trip to Berlin and saw this by the side of the autobahn (unable to take my own picture): http://secretcitytravel.com/berlin-april-2014/berlin-avus-racetrack-deserted-grandstand.shtml

Here's a site might be of interest: https://crossedcombs.typepad.com/recordenvelope/archives.html

Fergie's favourite tune was 'Last Minute Miracle'

There was a thread a couple of years ago which might be useful:

It looks like an old 'emidisc' that someone's hand drawn their own labels on.

Fabulous pictures of puffins

I heard my first cuckoo of the year on Friday on Brown Clee Hill in Shropshire - didn't it see it though

Anderson Brothers - I Can See Him Loving You.

.....and Ernie Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do070d09S9g&spfreload=10

Great selection, would agree with all of those though I have a slight preference for Walter Jackson's version of Coldest Days of My Life. You could also include the whole of Sam Dees' album - got to be one of the best ever made.

A bee orchid found growing by the side of a car park on an industrial estate in Telford a few years ago.

Anything by the greatest gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson - the voice of an angel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohnr22zTxc&spfreload=10

I saw a flock of lapwings (probably about 50) in Shropshire on Tuesday. They're definitely making a comeback after years of not seeing any.

As far as I'm concerned anything that is legally released doesn't come into the bootleg, pressing, etc. category.

It's all a matter of semantics though 'Bootleg' has come to mean any illegal issue in recent times. Officially, a bootleg is a recording that was never officially released by the artist or record company (usually a concert recording or an outtake). A 'pirate' record covers most of the early pressings and is officially released record issued on another label i.e. Soul Sounds, Out of the Past, etc. A 'counterfeit' record is one that is made to look exactly like an original release and to be passed off as such. As Pete says, 'pressings' was what they were called in the 70s and at the time was the only way you could get hold of the records to play at home other than spending lots of money or making cassette recordings at 'Nighters'. Their present appeal, in the days of YouTube, MP3s, etc., is a little harder to fathom........

Pales into insignificance compared to the world's most expensive postage stamp at £5.6 million!

Or baggy trousers!

I guess all these things depend on where you were, who you hung about with and what sticks in your memory. I moved down South to Southampton to go to work in 1971 which was where I first heard "Cheers" for "Thanks". Never heard it before then. The 'F' word was very common when groups of lads were together but rarely used in the company of girls. Tatts were about but not as prevalent as today. Don't recall anyone looking like a 'comic book' like the drug dealer in the film. Only real hard cases would have had them on their necks or faces. The film, of course, is really a collection of a lot of memories jumbled together so maybe not factual for one particular year but a conglomeration. In fact, it's difficult to determine the timeframe of the film - is it 1974 or is it the 70s in general? The chronology of the records is very jumbled but is, of course, a good representation of Northern Soul. Even the nod to John Anderson and Soul Bowl is slightly flawed as for most of 1974 it was 'Groove City'. Certainly true that you had to phone up to get the best records and you were very lucky if you got through early enough.