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I have mentioned 'Sounds' before.

More a newspaper than a magazine.

It was my favourite music journal in the 70s.

The tongue-in-cheek humour was right up my street.

They once published a pic of Lemmy not dissimmilar to the one above.

The caption?...'Lemmy, bumper crop of mushrooms'.

This had a teenage Titus rolling around on the floor in hysterics.

Even in the following days I was still having random giggling fits.

Not good at school.

Gave them the chance to whip out variants of that old classic:

"Titus, seeing as you seem to find something so funny,

perhaps you'd like to share this comic gem with the rest of the class?".

I was not doing well.

Music had ruined my studies (as they say in the States)

My History teacher was particularly concerned.

After one lesson he asked to have a word with me.

I was supposed to have written 20 essays.

I'd done one.

He was quite young and he tried to get through to me by saying:

"I know you are into music, I like music myself.

I remember seeing Jethro Tull and was amazed how the flute player

could leap around while still playing...BUT..."

You can guess the rest.

Anyway I passed the History exam and when I went to see the results

I was looking around for Tull-Teacher to say "See...nothing to worry about"

but he was nowhere to be seen.

He told me that General Boulanger, a key figure in the first world war,

died on the grave of his mistress.

He said not to put that in any formal/exam essay.

I put it in regardless and passed!

besides, it's by far the most interesting thing about General Boulanger.

The History teacher was a nice guy and I gave him a hard time.

A belated 'Sorry Sir'.

His name was Herr Goebbels (it wasn't...Ed.)

regards

Titus