But in my travels around the kingdom of rock’n’roll I have always being struck by the yawnsome loathing they draw from the serious rock fan.

Since then he has arguably maintained the highest-profile and most sustained post-Scaffold career, still appearing regularly as a vocal performer on British radio and television, and continuing to be a highly regarded poet and author. Aintree being the famous Racecourse in Liverpool, and an "iron" being a term for a horseshoe, so maybe something to do with being brought luck by a horseshoe from Aintree? as the one about the local music venue/meeting place sounds the most plausible for the time and era, I'd go with that!Because patent medicines were exempt from the prohibition regime in the USA, they became especially popular at that time.

I once went to a supermarket in Liverpool on business, and as I got out of the car noticed that the building next door was surrounded by a 12ft security fence topped off with barbed wire and razor ribbon. The trio put on a concert to raise funds for the Nordic Church and Cultural Centre in Liverpool in October 2018.I read somewhere that it was three pubs somewhere in Liverpool whose location together on the map was in the shape of a flat iron. Our kid said, ‘Don’t do that…’”The Aintree Iron is a line that has had many explanations, many of them quite unsavoury and attached to famous people. Released at the beginning of November 1967, "Thank U Very Much" didn't reach its peak on the UK charts until two months later at the beginning of January 1968.

Up here in Scotland, soon after the song was released, a friend of mine was informed by a Uni lecturer that "Aintree I-on" (which it sounded like to Scottish eardrums) was a euphemism for "Aintree Lie-on.These were taken down to supply the munitions factories during World War Two, as were all the railings around the Aintree, Fazakerley, Walton, Bootle and other areas. You do know you’re listening to something from the Sixties when the singer brings up both “the family circle” and the napalm bomb as things to be thankful for. I think in the end the conclusion was that the lyric was a bit of nonsense, as no local people had ever heard the phrase before the song was released. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Reviewing for Disc and Music Echo, Penny Valentine descried "Thank U Very Much" as "a very well-recorded little send-up record about life today.