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If I am an ungrateful sod.

Or is there something seriously…unnecessary about the  presentation discs I have started to receive from  record companies.

Its very nice, is, I suppose, what I SHOULD  say.

But I have problems with should.

A collectable gesture, denoting my part in the campaign to make Jamie T (100,000 copies sold, a presentation framed plaque) and The Fratellis (900,000 copies sold, an even bigger presentation framed plaque) popular?

I mean I’ve been doing this job , for what seems like 500 years now, and this is the first time these things have ever been presented to me.

And now I get two in a week.

Does this mean that I am now in the club?

Some  25 years after saying, in a weekly music paper review, that Thriller, the follow up to Off The Wall, would probably not sell as well as its predecessor?

A footsoldier in the salesforce for an industry that sells that which is freely exchangeable?

I mean imagine that, selling something that’s freely avaialble!

But then, when I was young on the rain soaked Irish plains of my youth, and I’da  told me da I could see into the future and we’d all be buying 70 odd brands a bottled water he’d  a thunk that I was drunk.

This is progress, is it?

This is good, a right thing? I’m enjoying, glad to be part of this, am I ?

Oi don’t know whether to be pleased, rectified,all glowing inside  or  think that this is conclusive proof that the bottom of a rapidly emptying barrel being scraped.

Mind you if they want to give me a Modern Times one, no need to send it  the car, I’ll come and get it myself.

Or is there something seriously…unnecessary about the two presentation discs I have started to receive from  record companies.

Its very nice, is I suppose what I should say.

A collectable gesture, denoting my part in the campaign to make Jamie T (100,000 copies sold, a presentation framed plaque) and The Fratellis (900,000 copies sold, an even bigger presentation framed plaque) popular.

I mean I’ve been doing this job , for what seems like 500 years now, and this is the first time these things have ever been presented to me.

And now I get two in a week

Does this mean that some , what?, 25 years after saying, in a weekly music paper review that Thirller, the follow up to Off The Wall, would probably not sell as well as its predecessor I am now in the club?

A footsoldier in the overall salesforce for the industry that sells that which is freely exchangeable?

Or don’t know whether to be pleased, rectified,all glowing inside  or  think that this is conclusive proof that the bottom of a rapidly emptying barrel being scraped.

Mind you if they want to give me a Modern Times one, no need to send it  the car, I’ll come and get it myself.

It really shoulda been called The Seven Ages of White Rock.

While extensive space was given over to the Police and Stewart Copeland claimed “we Owned America”, the biggest act of the 80s - Michael Jackson - was nowhere to seen.

Conclusion - Jacko’s contribution to stadium rock was slight compared to all the whiteboy acts the predictable parade of balding fat white guys (some of them my pals) enthused over?

Plus Roger Taylor allowed to get away with the claim that Freddie Mercury was steadfastly apolitical.

This was the Freddie Mercury who played several times in Sun City - the entertainment playground of the racist South African regime?

Why let FACTS spoil the story, eh?

Have the BBC got some a hang up about associating black acts with rock n roll?

What the fuck is their problem?