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Michael Patrick O’Leary's avatar

Lovely piece. I would like to be called Lea-Perrins. Didn’t Donald Fagen write for Empire?

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Sam Redlark's avatar

I have in my possession a great trove of music and films and books that are all eccentrically filed away in cardboard boxes, their locations archived on esoteric spreadsheets that probably only make sense to me. The collective spectacle is more than enough to dispel any notions along the lines of 'I can fix him' from the minds of the fairer sex. The village of Meryton and the surrounding estates will never hum with excited speculation regarding the arrival of a bachelor who possesses Hymns to the Silence and many of the better-regarded punk albums on CD.

How was it that that I came to be in this position? It was people like Barry who, in the memory-holed era that existed prior to the Internet, created and helped to shape lively platforms where music and film could be discussed and brought to wider attention. Careers were made. People like me, who navigated the arts through weekly and monthly magazines, had our horizons expanded. Where else were we going to get our information? Though I never met Barry or his fast talking alter-ego Barney Tabasco, he undoubtedly touched my life. How could he not have? He was everywhere.

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