Kieran McGovern @eslreading

Writer of graded readers (OUP, Macmillan, Penguin) Brief Lives: (https://t.co/lzCG0eu5GL) & Beatles FAQ (https://t.co/xeJYK80b55) medium.com/brief-lives Bristol, UK Joined March 2009

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

3 hours ago

@playinglesshurt Les Dawson, Russ Conway and Mrs Mills.

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@60sPsychJukebox Yes, Geoff was in a very difficult position because John especially kept deliberately breaking studio house rules to experiment with distortion etc. Plus they could be very imperious with him - write about it here: medium.com/the-beatles-fa…

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

14 hours ago

@FraserNelson How will AB handle it when they besiege him with ’Miss won’t give us any money’ lobbying? Everything so far suggests he’ll cave (as KS did)

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14 hours ago

@DurhamWASP @PLSoc Yes, that sense of obligation to do something interesting rather than enjoyable.

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14 hours ago

@amwilson_opera R3 trying too hard, as per.

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

16 hours ago

@JohnFLyons2 @uncutmagazine But has a better ear for American speech patterns than either John or George. Ringo would sound funny and charming in Klingon

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

16 hours ago

@JohnFLyons2 @uncutmagazine Paul always sounds self conscious when ‘singing American’ as his dad disdainfully put it.

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16 hours ago

@Alm_dude @JohnFLyons2 @uncutmagazine John never sounded remotely American, even after years there.

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16 hours ago

@JohnFLyons2 @urbanfox93 @uncutmagazine Individual tracks maybe: Rocky Racoon, Honey Don’t, but not an entire album. In fact they became more defiantly English with each LP - Sgt Pepper, for example.

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

2 days ago

I published “Origin of 'Mad as a Hatter'” on @Medium ift.tt/MxOic9U

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2 days ago

@hellothisisivan Plus kettles and pots. Those ‘scrap metal merchants’ ran up the black flag on South Georgia.

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2 days ago

@RichardBratby Got to be War and Peace.

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

2 days ago

@dannykellywords If only. Still doing his Edith Piaf -for public consumption, anyway.

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2 days ago

@holysmoke Using the ‘after’ to get out of jail but yes, pretty shameless

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2 days ago

@BDSixsmith Meanwhile the rest of the country is opining on Tuchel’s terrible substitutions. Different strokes etc.

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2 days ago

@OldRoberts953 Be sure that your umbrella/is upside down. Going to need those Pennies From Heaven when they run out of our money.

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2 days ago

@cosmolenin @guyadams Yes, Craig Brown apart. The PM parodies have really declined - their Boris was dismally obvious. And Message Boards is sorely missed.

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

2 days ago

@alittledavetime @guyadams My main beef is with the arts/books pages - getting increasingly pretentious.

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

a week ago

@DavidSevern7 Wonderful novel - close to his best. Such great characters - and so strange: the mummers, the reddleman, the heath, those bonfires.

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Kieran McGovern @eslreading

a week ago

@gerardtbaker So proud of England playing like that in those condition. Harry K was squeaking like Sweep at the end. And Tuchel is our first great manager since Alf Ramsay.