The Earl of Zetland...

...looking a sad state in the marina at North Shields...
It has been a successful restaurant until fairly recently - the link tells you the sad story of its demise. No rocking the boat going on here - it is being dismantled and presumably sold on for scrap...

Don't forget - MonoMonday tomorrow - tag mm353, theme "Unfocussed". I’ll aim to get a list of hearts etc posted with my blip on Wednesday! Example photographers: Bill Armstrong and Olga Karlovac


CORONA CLASSICS - Marvin Hamlisch - The Entertainer by Scott Joplin

One of my favourites from Dolly for Black History Month .   Scott Joplin (c. 1868 - 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote over 100 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.   Joplin's death at the age of 48 is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format.

His music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This was followed by the Academy Award-winning 1973 film The Sting, which featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably "The Entertainer", a piece performed by pianist Marvin Hamlisch.  In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize


I’ll stick with the  COVID CELLO PROJECT 9 - “ECSTASY OF GOLD” by Ennio Morricone again.