Christopher John Myers

Roofers cleared - an important read from the Croydon Guardian.  I am sorry it's not entitrely contemporaneous! Builders cleared of pressuring elderly man over roof work A FATHER and son building team have been cleared of pressuring an elderly man into having expensive building work done on his roof. Maurice Cole, 45, and Sean Cole, 20, were found not guilty of making false representation and engaging in unfair commercial practice. The jury at Croydon Crown Court yesterday (Thursday) also found Maurice Cole's company, MC and Sons Development Ltd, not guity of engaging in unfair commercial practice. The case, brought by Croydon Council's trading standards team, dated back to May 2011 when the pair carried out building work at the home of Royston Harvey, now 90, in Caterham Drive, Old Coulsdon. Read more: http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Builders-cleared-pressuring-elderly-man-roof-work/story-18686947-detail/story.html#ixzz2UhtT9Fz4

Purley's Tesco store continues its relentless march to rip the heart out of the town ... with an in-store shoe repairers. Rumoured to be a Timpson franchise, the new shoe repairers will seriously affect the business of the town's independent shoe repairers - Harris & Osman in Brighton Road. If you care about Purley, I urge you to keep an eye on Tesco's up-coming planning application ... and oppose it, by whatever means you can.  To continue the 'putting the boot in' theme, this is another nail in Purley's coffin. Support local businesses - get your shoes fixed at Harris & Osman, 922 Brighton Road. Here's why, in their own words: " Harris and Osman in Purley have been providing Quality Dry Cleaning, Shoe Repairs, Tailoring and Key Cutting Services to Purley, Croydon and the surrounding areas for over 25 years. We offer all types of shoe repairs, majority of which can be repaired while-u-wait, as well as a large s...

  Anyone think Led Zeppelin stole the gist of Stairway to Heaven from Spirit’s Taurus ? I am (was) a Spirit fan after I heard Fresh Garbage on that seminal The_Rock_Machine_Turns_You_On album of ’68 (14 shillings, if you’re asking). But after a thoughtful listen, I reckon the plagiarism accusation’s a bit unfair. Listen to Taurus – it’s a great instrumental piece, a really great work.

I reckon Andy Fraser's performance in Free’s 1970 hit Mr Big is one of the greatest bass ‘leads’ ever.  Well, it is, actually! Check it out, here - Mr Big .  Andy takes the credit for writing Free’s only top 10 hit All Right Now when he was just 16!   Amazingly he went through a drinks and drugs hell and got AIDS. And survived. Thing is, and this is going to make me sound sound tragic, he’s Black. West Indian. Why do I mention this?   It’s just, I hadn’t noticed over the last 40 years – as if it was relevant – and I’ve just read Andy’s recollections, where it clearly was a big deal to him growing up, though in the British music business, at least, it made absolutely no difference whatsoever. Go Andy.   And Go Paul Rodgers (who IS still going!)