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Getting Back with the Beatles
Around twenty minutes into the second episode of “The Beatles: Get Back”, though I still hadn’t been able to watch the first episode, I...

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Nov 28, 20215 min read



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Nov 26, 20210 min read


Breaking with tradition
There’s always a need to break with tradition and stop being a creature of habit. Every woman who has lived with me would hardly describe...

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Nov 26, 20212 min read


The meaningless of awards shows
As a wide eyed kid and watching television with my parents and also when first married, there was a certain excitement in knowing who the...

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Nov 26, 20215 min read


But who and what’s going to make Hong Kong rattle and hum again?
It’s going to be a very tough task for the Mauritian Magician Karis Teetan to ride three winners tonight. This is what he needs to do to...

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Nov 24, 20213 min read


Getting back to the Beatles...and the magic of music
It refuses to play second fiddle to anything and anyone. It will never ever go away, and it cannot be silenced. That’s because Music...

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Nov 21, 20214 min read


18 November 2021
You’ll always be my baby girl No matter how old you are Flesh and blood never disappears Though you always carry the scars Words said...

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Nov 18, 20211 min read


15 November 2021
I am a very lucky man Seeing where I was and where I am today It’s not a place that can be described Life stories with twists and turns...

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Nov 18, 20212 min read


11 November 2021
Saw a band performing tonight They were following a gag order But music should be liberating and free Full of fun and joy and le vida...

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Nov 18, 20211 min read


Adrenaline is...cool??? Are you serious???
It was Rock critic Jon Landau who famously or infamously declared in Rolling Stone many decades ago how he had seen the future of Rock...

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Nov 18, 20214 min read


Those in Hong Kong who made a career in music work for them...
Before she and her partner quietly slipped out of Hong Kong for Dubai, someone I had got to know reasonably well for over a period of 2-3...

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Nov 16, 20218 min read


There's nothing wrong getting sappy
It had been playing in the background on and off for the past couple of months. This night, I was writing and wrestling trying to find...

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Nov 12, 20212 min read


2021 SaSa Ladies Purse Day and letting them eat cake...
Horse racing is a funny game- always has been, always will be. It’s often quite Campton Races do-dah do dah. In Hong Kong, where much has...

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Nov 12, 20214 min read


Those WTF times with the Guru
It lasted for less than two years, but it seemed like this yard went on forever. Those of us who were there, refer to it as The WTF Years...

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Nov 9, 20215 min read


The future might actually be back there...
We are all prisoners here of our own device. I was thinking about this line from “Hotel California” the other night along with “You can...

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Nov 9, 20214 min read


Lam’s words hardly inspire hope for future (SCMP Nov. 8, 2021)
https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3154969/smaller-classes-blessing-not-worry-hong-kong-students

Hans Ebert
Nov 9, 20211 min read


HK Nathan: Hong Kong’s best kept secret?
Nathan doesn’t wish to be famous. He and his friends just want to make music. Their music. They are not copyists nor do they want to be...

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Nov 6, 20214 min read


Side Effects
Being Bridget Jones When writing a song called “Home” with Welsh singer-songwriter Ben Semmens, the lyrics that came out of that magical...

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Nov 5, 20212 min read


The dark blues of Hong Kong and Indigo Town
With travel restrictions having hobbled Hong Kong’s image and reputation as an international city, we’re pretty much left to our own...

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Nov 1, 20214 min read


As Marvin Gaye asked, what’s goin’ on, Hong Kong?
Forget everything that happened in 2019. What you have today is a very different Hong Kong- different to even what it was five short...

Hans Ebert
Nov 1, 20216 min read
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