Arturo Barea – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September

A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.

Burt Reynolds, the source for George Best’s account of what he did with his money?

With a early description by Arturo Barea of the railway Reynolds was filming on when he recited the immortal lines..

Original British lobby card for 100 Rifles, showing Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds.

Investment is a simple game

Loads of loons chase a pot of gold for years, and at the end the banks win.

Bullock in Brian Watson's field, July 2012.

The 1903 Paris-Madrid race that got away

A remarkable feat of memory from Arturo Barea’s autobiography.

Marcel Renault driving to his death in May 1903.

Ah! “Oranges, golden oranges of Spain, the daughters of the sun!” on a promo disc intermediated by David Noades. The campaign was, according to this auction site, actually late 1960s and featured some revolting children and serving suggestions on the inside cover and some rather alarming dwarves on the outside: … but here anyway is…

A gun called Paco

After WWI French government sold off old Remington rifles to dealers who resold them to rebels in Spain’s Moroccan territories. Writes Arturo Barea in La forja de un rebelde (The forging of a rebel): ‘The bulky lead bullet made a peculiar sound as it left the mouth of the rifle, a sound that resonated on…

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The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September

Burt Reynolds, the source for George Best’s account of what he did with his money?

Investment is a simple game

The 1903 Paris-Madrid race that got away

Magic oranges from Spain

A gun called Paco