1970’s music

Bowling with Status Quo – November 1993 – a 25th anniversary memory

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One aspect of the Black Blog, aka The MusicDayzBlog, is going to be the publishing of pages from my diaries, which I started in 1974 and which are continuing to this day. To kick off this nostalgia-fest, here’s a couple of pages from the diary, written on November 10, 1993, when I had travelled up … Read more

360m blogs and counting

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Johnny Black's first diary cover 1974 Jesus on a stick with a lion
Johnny Black, diaries, books, music journalism, author
Johnny Black with examples of his work from 40 years in journalism, archiving and keeping diaries

It was recently estimated that there are 360 million blogs in the world. Fortunately, there are currently 7.7 billion people in the world, so the market place isn’t quite as saturated as that first alarming stat might suggest.

This is my first sally forth into the realm of the blogosphere and I’m not even going to attempt to justify why I’m doing it, except perhaps to observe, well, why not?

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