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Steve Thompson
Lonely At The Top
I wrote Lonely at The Top for the Tygers of Pan Tang for their 3rd album “The Cage” back in 1982. They were already planning to record my song “Paris By Air” but their chief songwriter, John Sykes had just quit the band and strong songs were in short supply. I went round to their management office which was above a Carpet shop in Whitley Bay and played this song to their manager (My brother Graham actually). Tom Noble may also have been present. All I had was an acoustic guitar so I demonstrated the song with much arm twirling, foot stomping and shouted “kabooms”. They loved it and said “go ahead and make a demo” – which I did, and the song made the album. What I didn’t realise until just now (see pic) was that the song also came out as a single. To be honest in 1982 things went ballistic with my songwriting and I would have had a hard time keeping track of where any of my songs were.
Lonely At The Top
Another Test
Sorry to bother you with tests but it seems my WordPress postings do get triggered to Google + via the Jeptack sharing plugin. However the title is not included and it seems a somewhat random image from my blog gets posted. What happens if I purposely add an image to this post?
Do My Blogs
Also go to Googe+
Sorry, as you’ve probably guessed, this is yet another test.
Do My Blogs
Also go to Googe+ Sorry, as you’ve probably guessed, this is yet another test.
An Elegant Solution
Scribefire
Why did I ever stop using this? The Scribefire Firefox plugin allows you to write to multiple blogs right from your browser. I used to do this a lot. It seems to have progressed a lot over the years and looks quite sophisticated now. Maybe it even works in Google Chrome too. I shall have to spend some time exploring it.
Happy New Adventure
Social Injustices
I shared a letter on Zero Hours contracts a few days ago on Facebook thinking my little circle of bolshy friends may have something to say about it. Now I’m astounded to see it’s been shared over 14,000 times and the likes may go over 13,000 anytime soon. This and the 100’s of PM’s I’ve received from some pretty desperate people tell me that this is not just one mans rant. These are big numbers that endorse my belief that there’s a lot if injustice going on. It’s not just abusive “employment” conditions either. There is housing rental injustice as pointed out by my friend Kev Howard who also brought to my attention recently the injustice being perpetrated on people with disabilities by ATOS et all. I’m sure there’s more e.g. the financial injustices: corporate greed, bankers bonuses and tax avoidance that everyone is talking about. The exorbitant cost of life’s necessities such as water, gas and electricity. The mis-labeling of our food products. I was just remarking to my wife yesterday, if we put together the money we’ve clawed back in illegal banking charges and mis-sold PPI over the past few years it amounts to a huge chunk stolen from our income. What the hell is happening? What can we do about it all?