7,300 pages
7,300 page mark reached on 27 March 2024, dedicated to The Specials who were top of the Wanted Pages list.
At this moment in time:
- Russia still at war with Ukraine
- Israel still at war with Hamas (Gaza)
- Baltimore bridge collapsed yesterday after a cargo ship collided against it
7,200 pages
7,200 pages achieved on 01 March 2024, just catching up with Leap Day 29 February 1988. Spent a lot of 29 February trying to update the few pages there are for this date and found some interesting stuff. See you in 2028!
MD
7,000 pages
Happy New Year ..and starting 2024 with another significant milestone of 7,000 pages. I dedicated it to former Beatle Ringo Starr, who was fairly high up in the Wanted Pages list (although not top) and was the last remaining Beatle to get his own page. Now well over 80 years young, he's still active and recently has a hand in the 'last Beatles song' Now and Then, released last year. I believe he was also the 'oldest' Beatle and the last to join the band.
I had considered 'choosing' page 7,000 with a random number generator (which Google now kindly provides), taking the Wanted Pages list from 1 - 300. I tried it out for page 6,999 and it actually came up with Not The Nine O'Clock News which was also deserving its own page, albeit not having man…
6,900 pages
Don't know what happened to 6,800 but anyway here we are at 6.9K - created 'accidentally' as usual, although happily, the subject is one of my all time favourite tunes Guilty (song and single) by Mike Oldfield. It's one of those singles I wished I'd bought back in the day, but for some reason I didn't, possibly because he was considered 'untrendy' during those heady post-punk/new wave days, and so I probably spent my pocket money on something else I could show off at school.
I only quite recently 'discovered' for myself that the tune for Guilty is based on a chord sequence (it probably has a more technical musical name than that but..) from Incantations part 1, making it effectively a "disco-version" of that theme/album, so very tongue-in-c…
6,701 pages
Mistakenly went past the 6,700 mark this morning but just time to create the 6,701st page dedicated to The Rolling Stones, who were regularly top of the Wanted Pages list. Appropriately, the band are also celebrating their 60th anniversary and releasing another new studio album, their 24th, in October. Not easy to sum up the career of such a long-living and influential band...so no point in trying really!
btw, recently I've been trying to concentrate more on more contemporary subjects (ie. from about 2003 onwards, and particularly from 2013 onwards), as I think I haven't done enough in terms of songs, albums, even TV programmes as such. I've recently taken a renewed interest in current pop music so I've been trying to keep up with that, plu…