Sunday 26 October 2008 Chat

The late DJ John Peel has had a train named after him.
The John Peel, to be run by Merseytravel, will be based in Liverpool, John's favourite city and home to his beloved Liverpool Football Club.
Merseytravel said the tribute was 'to a true broadcasting legend.'
Sheila Ravenscroft, John's widow, said her husband "Would have been absolutely chuffed to know that an engine running through Liverpool had been named after him."
"He wasn't a train-spotter but he loved trains and every boy dreams of becoming a train driver."
The naming ceremony coincided with John's second posthumous publication, The Olivetti Chronicle, which follows his autobiography, Margrave of the Marshes, completed by Sheila after his death.
The new book is named after the typewriter at which John wrote articles for national newspapers and music magazines.
John Peel was a keen supporter of young musical talent and the longest-serving BBC Radio 1 DJ.
He died unexpectedly of a heart attack while on a working holiday in Peru in October 2004 aged 65.
He is still greatly missed.

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Jerry Lee Lewis hopes to have Mick Jagger and Keith Richard guest star on his new album.
The singer, best known for Great balls of fire, is headlining the London Rock 'n' Roll Festival next week. The performance is the first of his European tour.
Now 73, Lewis was asked if he still lives up to his nickname of 'The Killer'.
"Yes, sir. I'm a mean old man. I knew The Stones back when they were kids. They ain't kids no more."
You can say that again, Jerry.

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By popular request,
Lyrics: Tom Waits, 1976 - The Piano has been Drinking

The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the I.Q. of a fence post
'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...

I'm going down, hang onto me, watch me skate across an acre of linoleum
I know I can do it, I'm in total control
And the piano has been drinking and he's embarrassing me
The piano has been drinking...

And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking
Not me, not me, not me, not me, not me