TRIVIA

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JULIAN'S TOP 100 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

Allman Brothers Band : At Fillmore East 

Greg Allman : Laid Back

The Band : The Band / Stagefright

Beach Boys : Holland

Beatles : Revolver / White Album

Buffalo Springfield : Again

Byrds : Notorious Byrd Brothers

Chieftains Two / Four

Martin Carthy : Prince Heathen / Shearwater

Gene Clark : No Other

Shirley Collins : Anthems In Eden

Ry Cooder : Boomer's Story / Paradise & Lunch

Sam Cooke : This Is Sam Cooke

Crazy Horse : First Album

David Crosby : If I Could Only Remember My Name

Rodney Crowell : Ain't Livin' Long Like This / Fate's Right Hand
Miles Davis : Kind Of Blue

Doors : Waiting For The Sun

Bob Dylan : Blonde On Blonde / John Wesley Harding

Bill Evans & Toots Thielemans : Affinity

Everly Brothers : First Album

Georgie Fame : 20 Beat Classics

Fleetwood Mac (with Peter Green) : Greatest Hits

Aretha Franklin : I Never Loved A Man

Marvin Gaye : What's Going On

Grateful Dead : Workingman's Dead / American Beauty

Andrew Gold : First Album

George Harrison : All Things Must Pass

John Hartford : Aero-plain

Jimi Hendrix : Electric Ladyland

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady

Rickie Lee Jones : Pirates

Kinks : KInk Kronikles

Kris Kristofferson : The Silver Tongued Devil And I

John Lennon : Plastic Ono Band

Little Feat : Dixie Chicken / Feats Don't Fail Me Now

Love : Forever Changes

Lovin' Spoonful : Do You Believe In Magic / Daydream / Hums

Nick Lowe : Party Of One

Kirsty MacColl : Kite

Harvey Mandel : Cristo Redentor

John Martyn : Bless The Weather / Solid Air / One World

Kate & Anna McGarrigle ; First Album

Steve Miller Band : Sailor / Your Saving Grace

Joni Mitchell : Blue / For The Roses / Court & Spark

Van Morrison : Astral Weeks / St. Dominic's Preview / Veedon Fleece

Randy Newman : 12 Songs

Gene Parsons : Kindling

Gram Parsons : GP / Grievous Angel

Ann Peebles : I Can't Stand The Rain

Dan Penn : Nobody's Fool

John Phillips : Wolfking Of LA

David Qualey : Only Guitar

Kimberley Rew : Grand Central Revisited

Roches : First Album

Rolling Stones : Beggar's Banquet / Let It Bleed

Boz Scaggs : My Time

John Sebastian : John B Sebastian / Tarzana Kid

Jules Shear : The Great Puzzle

Ricky Skaggs & Tony Rice : Skaggs & Rice

Spirit : Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Dusty Springfield : Dusty In Memphis

Ringo Starr : Beaucoups Of Blues

Richard & Linda Thompson : I Want To See The Bright Lights / Pour Down Like Silver

Lal & Mike Waterson : Bright Phoebus

Wailers : Catch A Fire

Bob Weir : Ace

Tony Joe White : Homemade Ice Cream

Lucinda Williams : Sweet Old World / Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Stevie Wonder : Music Of My Mind / Talking Book / Innervisions

Neil Young : First Album / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / On The Beach / Tonight's The Night

1) At just under 6' 6" he's probably too tall for showbiz (see Keith Richards, D. Bowie, P. Simon, Prince etc.)

2) One of seven brothers, he survived 10 years of Catholic boarding schools (see also guilt….)

3) Proud to be part of the official Doris Day web page (only man to cover "Move Over Darling") - the album that produced the following favourite review (from the Internet) :
"….the album sucks, we almost put a variation of the Rolling Stones logo on the cover because we felt that anything that sucked this intensely needed a big pair of lips on it….By the way he's helped out by his friends The Roches and Mr. Richard Thompson. Gee, I hope their careers can survive it…what am I saying? The Roches have never really had a career… they're about as popular as the insects they're named after and as far as that bastard Thompson is concerned he could take a dump on stage and the critics would have us think it was a gold ingot…If you're at a party and someone trots out this fine work of art, leave immediately, go to a safe distance and call the Airforce. Insist on a napalm strike (a three-mile radius should do it). On second thoughts ask for a tactical nuke. Drop one. Have 'em wait half an hour, then drop another. With something as lethal as this guy's music you can't be too sure."

4) The only Brit to play the Nashville Tribute to Gram Parsons.

5) Lured four members of avant-garde Germans Can into playing pop music.

6) Booked to open for Arthur Lee (Love) in New York the day he went to jail.

7) Once stood in for English crooner Val Doonican when he was ill.

8) Played the Grand Ole Opry (with Charlie Louvin) and went on to produce Charlie's 1996 album "The Longest Train".

9) Picked up fluent German and French - could get a job as a Euro-spy. (Translated Nena!)

10) He's written hundreds of songs, both alone and co-written with such as Lucinda Williams, Vince Gill, Dan Penn, Nicky Hopkins, Jules Shear, Dennis Locorriere, Rosie Flores, Willie Nile, Bill Lloyd, Iain Matthews, Garry Tallent, Clive Gregson etc.

11) No big hits yet.

12) Went bald aged twenty-one.