Shakin, Wrestlin and Rollin'

Don Woods

I am subjecting you to another track from my recently re-released wrestling album....this is the title track "Shake Wrestle and Roll" which has been re-released in the States by Burger Records and is getting plenty of plays....all very strange as I haven't listened to it for 30 years (I wonder why?)....I wrote the whole album for wrestler Adrian Street back in the day and here we go again....and it's on VINYL!!.... It sure is a strange business. I had a few days up in The Lake District which was a nice break ...might as well be there in the drizzle as anywhere else...had a wander round Kendal which still bears the scars of last years floods but thankfully fully recovered....on returning we went to the Empire in Liverpool to see "The Commitments" which was musically very good...good live stuff...however the acting wasn't too clever as it was hard to pick up what they were saying and the strong Irish accents didn't help....fortunately I have seen the film so I knew the story...the niggle I've always had with this story is the brass section on the band has a trumpet and a sax....for me there has to be a trombone as well....it was the same in the film....but that's just me. A statue of Cilla has been erected outside the Cavern in Liverpool...it was unveiled in front of an enthusiastic crowd.....although the statue is very good it's not a particularly good likeness...whether that matters or not....it is similar to the one of Ken Dodd in Lime Street Station...that's not a good likeness either......at least they have put Cilla on the front of where the original Cavern was.....before the city geniuses knocked it down....a nice rags to riches story....not quite sure why it took so long...would have been nice while she was still around? At the time of writing we have the build up to Trump signing on....with half the nation protesting....as opposed to the other half had Hilary won...I don't know what they hope to achieve...this bad enough but what is really sad is the sheep in THIS country jumping on the bandwagon ridiculing a bloke who they know NOTHING about....everyone making wild assumptions....why not just WAIT AND SEE.....suddenly they go on about how wonderful Obama was..y'know...the bloke who was going to put us at the back of the queue....followed by all the knownothings spouting about how "Brexit" will never work....information they have heard from some politician who is panicking in case he loses his unearned fortune....the only chap who speaks ANY sense is Farage...we should make him Prime Minister AND president of the U.S.A. And finally....they had an article on the ITV morning show about women having babies late in life...they had a lady on who was in her fifties who had a 5 year old...she said she had to look after her mother for 17 years by which time she was 51 and thought she was too old to have a child but was successful...she said her only fear is that she may not see her child marry etc...but had experienced the joy of motherhood...a lovely polite intelligent lady....then in come the Emails at the side of the screen from the woodentops....thing like she is "selfish" and "having children late is unfair on the child"....what is it with these morons?...it has NOTHING to do with them and their shallow little lives during which they have achieved NOTHING....and there lies the problem.....FORTUNATELY for us ALL it was Thursday and Piers Morgan was replaced by Ben Sheppard....so we were spared an outburst from that idiot