Stanley Johnson: rock ‘n’ roll drummer, magician, Hackney style icon
The best-dressed man on Well Street talks about his work with Gene “Be-bop-a-Lula” Vincent and much more. With several exclusive photos.
Tag: hamburg
The Singing Organ Grinder’s tweet archive for February 2018
Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.
I know where your house lives, but sometimes the front door’s a struggle
Featuring Abel and Marguerite Chevalley and their Concise Oxford French Dictionary.
Yiddish and the Italian Welsh
Daffy-down-dilly has been and fled / Her yellow-green gown all stained in red. Featuring Google Translate’s transliteration service for unfamiliar scripts.
Mucho piojo y mucho español
En el puerto de Hamburgo.
Hanseatic legionaries, playing at Waterloo and at Punch and Judy
A Hamburg organ-grinder’s dad at Waterloo, and whatever happened to his son’s Drehorgellieder?
