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Tony Barrell's Adventures in Music and Mystery
Where does the word ‘litterbug’ come from?
Radio Luxembourg brought rock'n'roll to Britain
Tony Barrell tracks down the mysterious people on great album sleeves
Tony Barrell explains why he wrote 'The Beatles on the Roof'
How the Rolling Stones made history in Hyde Park
How long have we been ‘laughing all the way to the bank’?
I once had a lift home in a limo with Celine Dion
James Bond’s top-secret connections with the county of Kent
The inspiration behind a great Roxy Music B-side
'Hanky-panky' used to mean something quite different