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Flicked past this mellow fellow's elpees in the racks so many times over the years, always faintly intrigued, but never enough to listen...
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Okay, let's see how things had shifted, in terms of the canon, slightly more than a decade after the 1974 appraisal by the critics of t... -
Onto the third installment of this series - the NME 's list of the Greatest Albums of All Time, published on October 2 1993. Here, it... -
I have written before about the Drops Away Syndrome... that thing where artists seem supremely relevant and core-canonic at a particular mo...
This is the first manifestation of Acid Communism.
ReplyDeleteI wondered if he had an LSD phase.
DeleteLet's remember that Reg got seriously into ufology and various paranormal gobbledygook, and wrote a book about his discoveries, Wild Things They Don't Tell Us. It's quite something, featuring incidents such as him bombarding Sting with videos on crop circles after playing at his wedding, but my favourite part is when Reg quotes John Glenn's confession of alien contact. The only thing is, John Glenn's confession was a joke on Frasier, and Reg doesn't seem to realise that Frasier was a sitcom and not a documentary.
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.org/details/wildthingstheydo0000pres Here's Reg Presley's book on the Internet Archive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVhDsxTXgPU&ab_channel=radeetz007 And here's John Glenn admitting everything on Frasier, which Reg assures us is 100% fact.
Didn't know that!
DeleteI suppose it's not so far from some of the things Bowie believed or played with believing, in the mid-70s. And earlier that he had a whole thing about UFOs.
"His theories were nutshelled in Wild Things They Don't Tell Us (2002), a remarkable book with an intellectual depth on a par with a university professor rather than a former bricklayer from Andover." - says one obituarist in the quality press
Delete"Presley... had a hugely inquiring mind. He developed a scheme to reclaim deserts and even patented a fog-warning system. In his final years he was fascinated by the possible benefits of ingesting powdered gold. His obituary in The Telegraph said he believed that white, powdered gold could have been fed by the Egyptians to the Pharaohs. “I tried to manufacture it myself,” said Presley. “You need the temperature of the sun to make it. So I went down to the iron foundry in Andover. You zap the gold at the temperature of the sun. Then you look in the crucible and there is only white dust left.”
Delete"When he died on February 4 2013, his local paper, The Andover Advertiser, said that the news was broken on the internet by his friend David Icke. “Presley was an early follower of David Icke at his earliest talks in Alton Barnes,” it explained."
DeleteFirstly, I should say that David Icke fans are far more sinister than they pretend (as in, they're anti-Semites: I had an extremely bitter experience working alongside such a cunt).
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I should point out that Shaun Ryder is now rather a jovial ufologist. I'll forgive him pretty much anything that pays his bills. Such is loyalty.
I don't believe Reg Presley was an anti-Semite, to be clear. He was just a massive silly sausage.
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