My Legendary Girlfriend

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The story mainly takes part in his cramped flat with telephone conversations to people he knows apart from Kate, the previous tenant, who he has never met in person yet spends hours talking to her on the phone. Maybe the ever so slightly predictable ending irked me because in real life, things like that don't ever seem to happen.

In another world, this would have been their first big hit, and in a sense it was, but approaching it now it stands out as both half-forgotten (it has been rarely played live since around 1993) and – yes – legendary.The book was so good that I immediately started looking at other male `Lad Lit' authors and Mike Gayle was one that I had heard of and was incredibly popular. I have no idea of what record broke the loadedly silent tension, but in all honesty it would be difficult for pretty much anyone to notice the next song played after the first time they heard Babies.

My Legendary Girlfriend is an astonishing record because it sweeps all of this away and reveals artists who are able to use popular forms to give their material greater depth rather than compromise it – to take what must have seemed to be odd fringe elements of their styles and tastes and tie them together to make something fresh and appealing.

A book taking a look at every aspect of the very first episode of Doctor Who, including my feature on how John Smith And The Common Men might have fared as a real life pop group. There’s more about the 1991 Christmas NME – and My Legendary Girlfriend – in Looks Unfamiliar with Grace Dent here.

To hear this clearly, listen to the live version released as a limited edition single by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne the same year – nothing is sequenced here, just a group of musicians getting into a groove together, and the song is all the better for it. English teacher, serial smoker and serious list-maker--Will is a Numnul, to quote Gayle; a "New Nineties New Man New Lad", living an existence that screams "Single!Touch me, now, c'mon, c'mon, I don't care, 'cos tonight, you know we could, maybe we, maybe we could touch the sky, d'you think we could, do you think that we could touch the sky? In 2021, Mike was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. You can listen to me on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone talking about BBC Records And Tapes and playing some highlights from their catalogue here. She's balancing, there are so many others with unbroken eyes as well, no cellulite afternoons, she is balancing, balancing on the edge of ugliness tonight, she is balancing.