The wheat beer Weinerstephan do is superb, but yes, @ 5.8% you’ll be speaking broken biscuits in no time 
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Really nice 
+ 2 Guinness…
You have to watch out for the Oktoberfest beers. They add a wee edge of alcohol above the normal helles - I find the Okt just a bit too rich. But Weienstephaner helles is the king for me.
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Something of a legend in 70s British boutique circles, here is Harold The Ted in all his glory accompanying one of the extravagant display items at Mr Freedom in Kensington Church Street: a 10 foot tall cut-out representation of a glowering boy scout made by Electric Colour Company’s Rod Stokes.
Harold Harris hailed from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Avoiding the articulation of the first letters of his name, hometown and county – as detailed in my book Mr Freedom – ‘Arold became the boutique’s star salesman when the late Tommy Roberts, Trevor Myles and John Paul moved their fashion business from 430 King’s Road to Kensington in December 1970.
“Harold was a total Ted, beyond total, fucking mental,” Roberts told me in 2000. “He was good image. He didn’t care who our customers were. There’d be Jill St John or some other film star looking through the clothes and he’d go: ‘Wot you fuckin’ doing with that rack, cock?’ He’d say to David Hockney, ‘So you want a pair of triousis do yer cocker?’ He gave the shop a wonderful feel.”
(Taken from Paul Gorman’s site).
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I asked someone was Big Al in the house lol the reply
Released 40 years ago today.
I rushed down to Woolworths after school to buy it. I think I listened to it on my shitty Sansui or Alba “personal stereo” every day on my paper round for at least the next six months.
I remember really not liking the covers Born to Run or Do you know the way to San Jose? And The Power of Love, which as a moody teenager with divorced parents I could see straight through 
And I still think TPOL is terrible, although the 12" double pack was good. But you spent what little cash you had and you got to like it all because you learned to like it through sheer repetition.
I didn’t know at that time, but it’s really Trevor Horn’s album, along with Steve Lipson, who played all the incredible guitar on WTTPD (Lipson Service Guitar).
Highly recommend Trevor Horn’s book ‘Adventures in Modern Recording’. What a Don!
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Oh my god yes. This was my soundtrack to 1985, also on my personal stereo. Always loved the Power of Love though!
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The lyrics and his voice are just too much for me! 
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i remember at the time, there were 3 songs with the title ‘The Power of Love’ in the top 40.
Jen-Rush, Frankie and then Huey and the News, which at the time was my favourite one, mainly because it was featured in Back to the Future, and i was 8 or 9.
now in 2024, just like WC and the Maad Circle, ain’t a damned thang changed, Huey’s is still the best version for me. it’s a banger.
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Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
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Pat Bateman?
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hated TPOL at the time, thought it was pure schmaltz.
and about 10 years ago re-listened to it and was arrested by the (uh) power of it, in context. to make so much genuine, earnest music that was so deeeeply invested in ribald and joyful fucking, and then to turn and sing something so tender (one of my least favorite words, but it works)…
for a bunch of liverpool sex punks, it’s a thing of beauty!
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The Power Of Love is an all-timer for me, esp the longer version with appalled Mike Read spoken word intro!
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