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Ashforth’s Angles: Brighton’s three-day festival
- Updated: August 2, 2016
By David Ashforth 17:50PM 2 AUG 2016
EXCELLENT. Life’s worth living after all. It’s Brighton’s three day Festival of Racing.
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For the elderly, it gets off to a cracking start with the nostalgic appearance of Marquee Club (1.50).
Who can forget the glory days of the Marquee in the 1960s when it was in Wardour Street? (Almost everyone not born before 1950). There was the magnificent Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, with Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophone and Cyril Davies’s keening harmonica and vocals and Long John Baldry stepping in for How Long, How Long Blues.
“Heard the whistle blowin’, couldn’t see no trainWay down in my heart, I had an achin’ painHow long, how long, baby how long?”
If Marquee Club follows up his recent Lingfield win it will get things off to a great start and, afterwards, winning connections (Jamie Osborne, William Carson and owners The London Partnership) could sing a track from the LP – I Got My Mojo Working, perhaps, or Hoochie Coochie Man.
Brighton is often …
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