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 Dear Windypops,

What is it with this new trend for celebrities and pop stars lending their names to grocery items? It took me a good while to get my head round Paul Newman plugging his own range of salad dressings, but enough is enough! A walk down the aisles of my local Tescos is like the nomination list for the Grammy Awards.

Amongst other items I have recently spotted, there is Simon Le Bon’s Cheese In A Can - (blue cheese, cheddar and emmental selections), Nicky Wire’s Wines From The Valley - (in both Rhondda Rioja and Merthyr Merlot varieties), Aerosmith’s Vagifresh eucalyptus scented range of panty liners, Gary Barlow’s Beef’n’Turkey Pasty Platter, as well as the Claire Grogan Altered Image range of lipsticks and lip-plumpers.

Even dead pop stars it seems have seized the opportunity to cash in on their fame at the checkout. I was astonished this Christmas to see my wife had brought home a pack of low fat mince pies endorsed by 70’s bedwetting loon and singer/songwriter, Nick Drake.

The world’s gone flipping mad.

Regards,

Kevin Balls.


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Dear Windypops,

I was very exited to bump into Geordie bluesman Eric Burdon recently, as I showed my two children round Bristol Zoo.

I approached him to say that it was good to see him back with the animals, but he just told me to fuck off.

Peter Bread.

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Windypops says: Thankyou, lovely, lovely people, for your kind (if slightly disturbing) words


AAAARRGH!! I'M SO ANNOYED! Once again Eurovision defeat has been plucked from the jaws of victory.

I was just writing a sure-fire winning entry for next year called "Baby I Love E.U." and had written the middle eight when I broke the flipping G string.

My Uncle Geoff, who teaches me guitar, fetched a new one round, but by the time he tuned it up for me I had forgotten the verse and chorus. I know it had an Em chord in it somewhere, but that's all I can remember.

My mum said it was great, and that I ought to write another one.

Regards,

Robert Fripp.

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Dear Windypops,

Why oh why is nothing new any more? Repeats and remakes are everywhere you look these days. All they do in Hollywood is awful remakes of films that were great the first time but now have all the good bits removed. It's the same with music. Look at Oasis for example (but whatever you do for chrissake don't listen to them!). If they are going to keep redoing old stuff, why not do something useful like repeating good years instead?

There have been some great years over the years and speaking personally, I could quite happily relive some of them. Also, I'd quite like a go on some that I missed out on first time around like 1967. They could miss out the bad stuff like Vietnam and just have the groovy bits. I for one, would really like to be able to say 'far out' without feeling self-conscious and surely it would be cheaper to repeat a year than to keep building new ones?

Yours occasionally

Graham Blaffweesp

PS - If they do it and they repeat 1989, can they leave in the bit where I nearly did it with Sonia Williams in the ASDA car park in Preston? (May 19th, I think)

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Dear W'pops,

I quite fancy that one out of Backstreet Boys.

Yours truly,

Claudia Bristow

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