The song this week is a track off an album I did taking a look at film stars...this one is called "The Ballad Of Burt Lancaster"...and came about after some ugly rumours were spread about my hero....he seemed to spend rather a lot of time in male company so eyebrows were raised....but I'm having NONE of it !!!!....as indeed the song says. .I was sad to hear of the passing of the great Chuck Berry...to me he was the undisputed king of rock and roll and was a huge influence on so many guitarists...myself included....his songs were not only lyrically brilliant they were uncomplicated and easy to play...once you get those classic riffs off away you go....no rehearsals required....I saw him live on three occasions and his charisma was stunning.....his sound wasn't to clever...but it was CHUCK....even today you play a bit of Chuck and everyone gets up to dance....he was a one-off...irreplaceable. The "experts" have been at it again....apparently if you work at the top of a high rise building you could get depressed...not necessarily because of the job...wait for it...because the building wobbles....obviously the buildings are designed to withstand the wobble (I hope) but those inside are apparently affected psychologically....they KNOW this because other countries have also done tests....and this wonderful experiment has only cost 7 million to come to this conclusion....good value or what?....it would be interesting to know how they arrive at this figure...and where the money actually goes ... ...and talking of money we are not being bombarded with the Comic Relief Appeal....which is great...as indeed are all these fund-raising activities....I'm even part of one myself where we have weekly rock and roll jam sessions and raise money for sick kids...but what I just don't get is why money should have to be raised for starving kids and the homeless etc by the general public....a bunch of billionaire Sheiks and Arabs and even our own Royal hangers on could solve the problem overnight...we are constantly being told that £5 will feed a starving child for a week...or buy a homeless person socks and gloves....Tony Blair gets 250 grand for ONE after dinner speech....that's 5000 fivers...how can you possibly justify this sort of payout?....and that's ONE person.....and the stupid part is the filthy rich wouldn't even miss the money....it's obscene...not to mention the 60 billion high speed train service no-one wants. I don't know whether it's an age thing but I find the news programmes are going worse...especially the BBC...I feel if I never watch the news it would make no difference as there is never anything informative...it's just constant drawn out items repeated every 20 minutes....the death of Martin McGuiness was reported as "breaking news" for an hour...how many times do we need telling?...fortunately ITV get a better balance....if you can stand the adverts.