Updated 26 May 2016 For want of nothing better to write about this week, I thought I’d share a little story which involves pathetic name-dropping and also show what a complete idiot I used to be. Let’s go back to 1972, to South Kensington, a swanky part of Swinging London where I used to share a one-bedroom apartment with…

Updated 27 May 2016 Remembering AC/DC’s London concert at Wembley last July. Angus Young in action at Wembley last year. Jim Dyson/Getty Images Two of my most popular posts when I wrote this article last year were about veteran Australian-British band AC/DC. (This was as rated by Google Blogger, but I am now at paulmerryblues.com, which doesn’t have…

Updated 28 May 2016 Posters advertising Maison Close. It’s about the girl on the left who’s trapped in a Paris brothel                        A couple of years ago, we were at home in London watching a particularly entertaining French TV series about the saucy goings-on in…