George Best – 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.

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

Asked later what happened to the money he had earned, Best replied: “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” Which is more or less what Burt Reynolds/Yaqui Joe Herrera says at 16:40 in 100 Rifles (1969), which I imagine Best would have seen.

The coming and going of the gypsies

Yo, el vaquilla, quinqui cinema, and the usual political whining.