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THE LAJ LETTER
SUICIDE IS PAINLESS?
To the Noel Coward Theatre last night with the mighty brood for a long-overdue family outing, to see a show we have been meaning to get...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Sep 16, 2022
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QUEEN OF HEARTS
My Rogues Gallery is at last installed, and the Graduate children are framed for posterity. They hide a nasty stain that's lying there...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Sep 13, 2022
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RIP SANDY BABY
December 2016. The Shadows’ drummer Brian Bennett and I were having a quiet pre-Christmas lunch in Marylebone. He asked what the...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Aug 7, 2022
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RIP SANDY BABY
December 2016. The Shadows’ drummer Brian Bennett and I were having a quiet pre-Christmas lunch in Marylebone. He asked what the...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Aug 7, 2022
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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE ...
Full disclosure, John Altman is a cherished chum and one of my favourite people. He is also the busiest. His more-than-fifty-year ...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Feb 23, 2022
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PUTTING ELVIS IN THE SKY
I put Elvis on his flight to Brindisi this morning, and raced home to do my speed awareness course (irony is never lost). I was telling...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Feb 21, 2022
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BYE BYE BLUES BAND
The wind whipped them into a corner forty-two years ago, said Tom McGuinness, attempting to explain one day how the Blues Band were born....

Lesley-Ann Jones
Feb 5, 2022
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CALIFORNIA SCREAMING AT THE HARD ROCK HOTEL 21.01.22
The last interview ever given by Jimi Hendrix, the most amazing rock guitarist the world had ever seen, took place in the Cumberland...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Jan 21, 2022
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MACCA THE MAGNIFICENT DESERVED MUCH BETTER
I was thrilled to receive a ticket to Macca in conversation at the Royal Festival Hall last night, thanks to favourite firstborn Mia...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Nov 5, 2021
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SLICK TO THE NINES
It might be time for a 'Greatest Hits'. Earl Slick scoffs, he is having none of it. Onwards and sideways is the theme. What other ...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Jun 14, 2021
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THE PINK MOMENT
I once stayed in a place called the Ojai Valley Inn, Ventura County, an hour and a half or so north of Los Angeles. I was on a...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Jun 13, 2021
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LIVING A LIE: ROY GREENSLADE AND MAX CLIFFORD
Watching the Max Clifford documentary last night, I was struck by similarities that had never previously occurred to me between the late,...

Lesley-Ann Jones
Mar 1, 2021
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