Bare cheek: Hove factually

Five more facts you didn’t know about fantabulous Hove

1 Hove finally gave women the vote in 1956, but only to larger ladies. Females weighing under fifteen stones had to wait until 1990.

2 Beastie Boys Mike Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz lived on Blatchington Road between 1989 and 1993, during which time they released the albums Paul’s Boutique and Check Your Head.

3 Hove has its own equivalent of eBay, called ‘hoveBay’, but hoveBay is concerned only with the buying and selling of crisps.

4 Hove barbers do not ask the traditional post-haircut question “something for the weekend, sir?” but instead sing La Donna E Mobile while winking and miming the putting on of a contraceptive sheath.

5 Abraham Zapruder, whose famous Zapruder Film of the JFK assassination was instrumental in leading the Warren Commission to rule Kennedy’s murder the work of a lone gunman, is buried in Aldrington.

First Try Lyrics

A fascinating insight into the creative process as we examine the original drafts of those famous songs that didn’t get it quite right first time.

I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN, COLE PORTER
I’ve got you
Under my skin.
A bit like a human
Stratum germinativum.
Between my stratum corneum
And my stratum spinosum,
Yes, I’ve got you
Under my skin.

HURT, TRENT REZNOR
I hurt myself today.
I stubbed my bleeding toe
Then stood with my bare foot
On top of some Lego.

YOUR SONG, BERNIE TAUPIN
It’s a little bit funny,
This episode of ‘Allo ‘Allo.
At least it’s one of the early ones.
Without the Italian Captain in.

Great Mysteries Of The World

An occasional series in which we examine some of the unsolved riddles that have befuddled the minds of men through the ages.

Mystery No. 423:
Why did the producers of ‘Crackerjack’ think it a good idea to replace Peter Glaze, Bernie Clifton and Ed Stewart with the Krankies and Stu ‘Crush-a-Grape’ Francis?

The day the nation’s children switched on their colour sets in eager anticipation of more high jinks from their favourite ‘Crackerjack’ team to witness instead the grim antics of a Lowlands woman/child and his/her father/husband and the mirthless catchphrases of a Hoseasons-holiday-rep reject ranks alongside Passchendaele, Amritsa and the Harrying of the North as amongst the bleakest in our annals.