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Archive for November 2005

Things you learn from the radio

According to BBC reports, last year the president of Turkmenistan sacked thousands of healthcare workers and replaced them with military conscripts! Elsewhere, we learn that driving test candidates have to pass an exam in President Niyazov’s spiritual writings, which are contained in a book named the Ruhnama.
Isn’t it the mark of a truly deranged dictatorship, [...]

Govinda ephemera

Copies of Radha Krishna Temple’s two excellent Apple singles aren’t hard to come by, but this US promo copy of Govinda for sale on Ebay comes with an interesting extra: a bit of press puff by George Harrison extolling the song’s virtues. His wish for it to be the first number one hit praising God [...]

More acetates

Two more acetates on Ebay. (I can’t be bothered to put links in any more - you should be able to find them easily enough.) One is a 10 inch acetate of Oh Darlin’ - presumably from the time that Abbey Road was being recorded and assembled, the other a 14 inch acetate of John [...]