The Eastern Daily Press wins our prestigious Headline of the Day Award.
I have been asked by the judges to emphasise that they are sure the hurdy-gurdy player in question is nothing the like the vengeful ghost of a Gypsy child.
While I'm at it, the headline comes via Yahoo! because the Press has changed it to something more prosaic since the story went up.
And the music in the video, which is the very recording used in Lost Hearts, is not of a hurdy-gurdy at all. It's a variety of zither from the Vosges region of France.
Reader's voice: You don't think you're in danger of taking this feature too seriously, do you?
I was expecting it to be like Hurdy Gurdy man by Donovan!
ReplyDeleteI found out recently that if you went to the Cock Inn, St Albans, in the early Sixties you would have found, among the gang of underage drinkers, Donovan, Maddy Prior and Rod Argent.
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