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What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?

Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.

Friday, 23 June 2017

Gonzo Magazine #240

Gonzo Magazine Issue 40

THE SUMER IS ACUMEN IN ISSUE

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We mark the Summer Solstice, with an issue including Alfredo Zitarossa and The Beatles, and an exclusive excerpt from Tony Klinger’s new book. Alan reviews The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon, Biffo looks at Video Games featuring Pop Stars, and Jeremy goes to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Good ‘ere innit?

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and the final episode of Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, but Friday Night Progressive is on hiatus for a few weeks. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Alfredo Zitarrosa, Queen, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Yoko Ono, Coldplay, Eno, Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy, Barry Gibb, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Strange Fruit, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Albert Johnson "Prodigy", Brian Cant, Stephen Furst, Sheila Raye Charles, Byron Christopher Murrell, Belton Richard, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton Gardner and Dyke, Tony Klinger, Alan Dearling, Joanna Cannon, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Kev Rowland, Elephant Plaza, Wednesday 13, Witch Vomit, Flyinglow, The Ferrymen, Jim Jackson, Mr Biffo, Paradise9, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, The Beatles, Elvis, Motley Crew, Biz Markie, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Bob Marley, Neil Nixon, The Dope King’s Last Stand

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 239 (Miss Peach)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 238 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 237 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo237.html

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo236.html

Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 232 (Roy Weard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo232.html

Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo231.html

Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo230.html

Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo229.html

Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo228.html

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:

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SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #217

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample.

The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks).

Neil Nixon, the founder and presenter of the show has released a book about rare albums for Gonzo Multimedia.

The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.

Hasil Adkins: Haunted House

The Slits: Instant Hit

Hawkwind: Space Ship Blues

Robert Johnson: Debbie’s Theme

Baba Zula: Eferhali Yaprak

Brinsley Schwarz: Private Number

The Doctors of Madness: The Noises of the Evening

Young Fathers: Get up

Devilish Dear: I Wanna do it

Devilish Dear: These Sunny Days

Robert Johnson: I’ll be Waiting

Robert Johnson: Burnin’ Love

Temple City Kazoo Orchestra: Kazooed on Classics

Mannequin Pussy: Clue Juice

The Doors: My Wild Love

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Melting

Ringo Starr: (It’s all Down to) Goodnight Vienna

The Menzingers: After the Party

Ballboy: All the Records on the Radio are Shite

Eat Static: Implant

Stinky Picnic: You’ve Unlocked the Hamster World

Stinky Picnic: If you Can’t Make it #4

Julian Cope: Sunspots

Mbilia Bel: Manzil Manzil

Mbilia Bel: Awesome

Robert Johnson: Guide my Energy

Robert Johnson: Stones in my Passway

Chief Kegwin: Dot Cotton

Bill Bruford - Interview - 12/4/1984 - unknown (Official)

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Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford took up music and drumming at the age of 12. By age 27 his musical character had already been forged in the fiery furnace of four of the biggest progressive rock groups of the day: Y..

Bill Bruford and Colin Riley

'Skin and Wire: PianoCircus featuring Bill Bruford play the music of Colin Riley', in which a composer supervises a jazz drummer who used to be a rock drummer playing with a group of classical pianist..

Bill Bruford And Keiko Abe

Inside the beating heart of some of one of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, lies a percussion section with a very individual and separate identity. The Ne..

Bill Bruford and Michiel Borstlap

British percussionist Bill Bruford and Dutch keyboard master Michiel Borstlap are two of the leading lights in contemporary improvised music. Since their first meeting at the Nijme..

Bill Bruford and Pete Lockett

Pete Lockett is one of the world’s leading multi-percussionists. An authority on Indian percussion and an expert on tablas, kanjira and bongos, he has played and recorded with countless artists ..

Bill Bruford's Earthworks

Bill Bruford’s Earthworks was for 22 years one of the longest-running and most successful of the UK-based jazz groups. Having already spent twenty years on the cutting edge of modern rock p..

Complete Interview with Ken Dodd 1963 - The Beatles [Eng/Spa Subtitles]

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The Beatles and WWII
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JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH IN THE NEWS

News: John Shuttleworth To Appear In Count Arthur Strong

Beyond The Joke

The Sheffield songsmith guests in the episode which goes out on Friday, June 30 at 8.30pm, entitled The Three Wishes. John Shuttleworth will also be ...

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Brian Appleton - My Turn To Be Poorly
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The Shuttleworths 5
2CD - £10.99

Open Mind
DCD - £10.99

Blue John
CD - £9.99

It's Nice Up North
DVD - £10.99

500 Bus Stops
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The Shuttleworths 4
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Radio Shuttleworth 2
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Berlioz: "Symphonie Fantastique" : 4th Mvt.- Leonard Bernstein

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I, Berlioz
DVD - £7.99

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?

SPOONING THE RIVER
THIMBLING THE OCEAN

Scooping grains of sand for Pyramids

To build is a wave that motions(forward and back)

You think PUPPET OF MOON! and want solar powers

Stars drop from history over Bethlehem

Cycles of taxonomies gather data like Almanacs

500 years from now,we will not see results

of actions taken and Resistances overcome

100 years from now is just beyond our lifelines

Futurism for Beginners.Start Tomorrow!

Your Calendar is static electricity.You are acoustic.

Before,after and beyond us are timezones we will never see

Ant world fine for ants(until the Boot World!)

Snake World fine for snakes(until that gassing..

Cockroaches,rats,sharks survive the Blast

Our world is not infiltrated via aliens/reptilians

We sit by rivers with a spoon.And trust

there is no hole.In our Theories...

Thursday, 22 June 2017

TANGERINE DREAM EDGAR FROESE NYC 2012 Interview with Pavlina

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Live at Coventry Cathedral
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FAIRPORT CONVENTION IN THE NEWS

Fairport Convention to reunite with former members at Cropredy

TeamRock.com

Now in its 37th year, Fairport's Cropredy Convention will take place on August 10-12, with Fairport giving an extended performance on Saturday 12 to ...

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Live At Maidstone Castle 1970
DVD - £7.99

CORKY LAING ON KEITH MOON

Interview: Mountain drummer Corky Laing talks Keith Moon

AXS.com

Corky Laing: Seeing Keith play was something else. He was like an amusement park to himself. If I didn't know before that time that I wanted to be a ...

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Playing God
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

DESPITE SCIENCE FICTION HYPOTHESES

We live in a closed system.Even the Space Station needs supplies

that require Earth energy to get beyond gravity.Moon is still lonely-

still holding a flag and space junk.Mars has a camera.

Jupiter has Cassini.And we have Gaia.Globally warmed.

With storms,hurricanes,Tsunamis ,earthquakes...in denial

that our occupation affects the climate.7 billion times

But we will need a bigger boat than Noah's Space Ark

to Dunkirk this defeat.STAR ARK for Billionaires!

There is no Public Transport in space.Nowhere to land

that does not want us.Even Earth tires of our traffic.

Gridlocked and airlocked,"we have to change our lives"

Even science fiction no longer knows what to do..

Will AI and robots only look after their own kind?

WATCH THIS SPACE!

Stephen Hawking Says Earth Is Under Threat and Humans Need to Leave

Hannah Osborne,Newsweek Tue, Jun 20 11:22 AM CDT

Stephen Hawking has warned that Earth is under threat and repeated his belief that humans must leave in the next few centuries if we are to survive as a species.

“The Earth is under threat from so many areas that it is difficult for me to be positive. The threats are too big and too numerous,” he said, according to the Evening Express. “Our physical resources are being drained at an alarming rate. We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change. Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation and decimation of animal species. We can be an ignorant, unthinking lot.”

Hawking made the comments as part of his keynote address at the Starmus Festival in Norway. The event celebrates science and music, and aims to help the public get a better understanding of complex science.

The professor has made similar dire warnings about the fate of mankind in the past, but in his latest comments, he addressed several specific issues he feels are the biggest threats and talked about how we might become a multiplanetary species.

stephen hawking Earth extinction colonize

Stephen Hawking sits onstage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York City, on April 12, 2016. Hawking, the English physicist, warns humanity needs to become a multiplanetary species to ensure its survival.

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Hawking said that in the past, when humans have faced “similar crises” in terms of resources, they moved to new parts of the world: “Columbus did it in 1492 when he discovered the New World,” he said. “But now there is no new world. No Utopia around the corner.

“We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds. It is time to explore other solar systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth,” he said.

The Milky Way is home to an estimated 100 billion planets. Of these, millions, if not billions, are “potentially habitable,” meaning they could have the right conditions to host life, including a stable climate that allows liquid water to exist.

Hawking noted there are an estimated 1,000 stars within 30 light years of Earth, so if just 1 percent of these were Earth-like, we would have 10 candidate planets to move to. Hawking also said he believes humans will have developed the technology for interstellar travel within the next 200 to 500 years.

“Human colonization on other planets is no longer science fiction. It can be science fact,” he said. “The human race has existed as a separate species for about two million years. Civilization began about 10,000 ago, and the rate of development has been steadily increasing. If humanity is to continue for another million years, our future lies in boldly going where no one else has gone before.”

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Handel's Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks @ BBC Proms 2012

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God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel
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God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel
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Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Hawkwind - Hawkfest 2010 - Interview

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Space Ritual Live - Special Edition
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Space Ritual Live
2CD1DVD - £19.99

SOLSTICE BLESSINGS

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

ALL I HEAR IS HEAT!

From Cornwall to California,we bleat

red raw and beaten.Old Sol is stronger

than any of our moon white skins.We turn pink!

Of course-this is Summer(beach weather/lakeside/

swimming pools of sweat bind our clothes together.

We praise indoors and air conditioning.

We make sure children are not left in cars

That our pets get hydration and coolness(and ourselves?

we are here-in union /clinging together in stickiness

ALL PRAISE THE SUMMER SOLSTICE!!

RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS

Rick Wakeman: I owe it to my family to stay as healthy as I can

Express.co.uk

It's no secret that musician and composer Rick Wakeman has had his fair share of health problems. Over the decades, the 68-year-old father of six has ...

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Rick Wakeman

Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..

Rick Wakeman and Brian May

Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..

Rick Wakeman and Mario Fasciano

On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..

Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton

With special guests Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..

Rick Wakeman and Various Artists

Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..

Rick Wakeman, Alan Parsons, John Wetton , Chris Squire, Steve Hillage and others

Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..

Rick Wakeman, Karnataka, Gentle Giant and more

26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001 and Beijing - widescreen remix from Iona, and other unreleased tra..

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Richard Thompson - Sumer Is Icumen In

what else?

Monday, 19 June 2017

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

ALL I HEAR IS HEAT!

From Cornwall to California,we bleat

red raw and beaten.Old Sol is stronger

than any of our moon white skins.We turn pink!

Of course-this is Summer(beach weather/lakeside/

swimming pools of sweat bind our clothes together.

We praise indoors and air conditioning.

We make sure children are not left in cars

That our pets get hydration and coolness(and ourselves?

we are here-in union /clinging together in stickiness

ALL PRAISE THE SUMMER SOLSTICE!!

Frank Zappa Interview Oct 10, 1967 The Bitter End

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Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele..

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

In 1965, Ray Collins asked Zappa to take over as guitarist in local R&B band the Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and soon assumed..

Frank Zappa et al

On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati..

FAIRPORT CONVENTION NEWS

Folk rock legends announce return show at Whitby

The Northern Echo (registration)

FOLK rock veterans Fairport Convention will return to a coastal resort to perform following a sell-out show earlier this year. The group recently ...

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Live At Maidstone Castle 1970
DVD - £7.99

Sunday, 18 June 2017

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: London Community Gospel Choir: Joyful Joyful

Being Sunday I always post sacred music. The name of the deity may change, or even the deity Him/Herself but the spirit remains the same

ERIC BURDON RETURNS TO MONTEREY

Monterey Pop celebrates 50th with Eric Burdon, Norah Jones

New Delhi Times

The Monterey International Pop Festival turned 50 on Friday and celebrated its anniversary by kicking off another three-day concert that's bringing ...

Monterey Pop Festival 2017—Day One Review - Best Classic Bands (blog)

High notes from the first day of Monterey Pop's 50th anniversary weekend - SFGate

Full Coverage

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Beat Beat Beat - Eric Burdon
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"IN MILWAUKEE,TWO OUT OF THREE CHILDREN ARE RAISED BY SINGLE PARENTS"

The nuclear family radiated first,then exploded,and had fallout.

Fatherless children ask one parent to do the role of two.

Kanye West sings of a 'GOLD DIGGER"single mother

Contraception and safe sex need to be taught in every school.

Planned Parenthood offers a PLAN B for failures of prevention

Often,the children of single parents become single parents themselves

Church alone is no guarantee of good role modelling

Lonely fathers and single mothers both need support(as do their children)

Fathers Day reminds us -that support must come -from us.

Friday, 16 June 2017

Gonzo Magazine #239

THE ALL AROUND THE WORLD ISSUE

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Kev eulogises about New Zealand’s Miss Peach and the Travelling Bones, who are one of the best bands I have heard all year, John writes about the new sounds of the Summer of Love’s 50th Anniversary, Alan remembers the Isle of Wight Festivals at the cusp of the 60s and 70s, and Richard attends the Deke Leonard memorial concert, while Jon burbles about The Beatles.

And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontieres and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Goldie, Neil Young, Phil Collins, Libertines, Woodstock, Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Skunk Anansie scholarship, Wilko Johnson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Anita Pallenberg, Charles P (Chuck) Thacker, Rosalie Sorrels, Corneliu Stroe, Adam West, Norris "Norro" Wilson, Sam Beazley, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Tony Klinger, Alan Dearling, Isle of Wight Festivals, Dave Houghton, Circus Zyair, John Brodie-Good, Summer of Love, Owsley "Bear" Stanley, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Todd Rundgren, David Crosby, Kev Rowland, Miss Peach and the Travellin' Bones, Richard Foreman, Deke Leonard, Tim Burness, Tyrannosorceress, 8Kids, Art Fristoe Trio, Barrows, Beasto Blanco, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Eminem, Elvis, Derek and Clive

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 238 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 237 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo237.html

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo236.html

Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)