#Billy Nicholls

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6/3/25.

I remember Micah proclaiming the genius of Billy Nicholls many years ago. I think he bought the CD, and played it for me over drinks. I loved the mix of psychedelic pop, 60s pure pop, and Kinks-esque pop. But knowing that Micah had the CD made it so that I never felt an urgent need to add it to my own collection.

Now, the inestimable Charly Records is giving "Would You Believe" its long deserved vinyl reissue. While certainly influenced by The Beach Boys and The Beatles, there is something else at play. His father was a double bassist and big band singer. Second, Billy was only a teenager when he recorded "Would You Believe". And he had production help from "Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones with input from the Small Faces and Arthur Greenslade [and] Ronnie Lane."

I can't help but wonder how many bands were influenced by this record (The Heavy Blinkers) for example. In a way, the youthful innocence and exuberance shown by this release remind me of a young Billy Tibbals.

Nicholls currently lives in North London.

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Billy Nicholls - Kew (1974)

If this one has a bit of the ramshackle charm of the Faces, that's because both Ronnie Wood and Ian MacLagan are on playing on it.

Have I really been drinking from 9 til 5?

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick Billy Nicholls Would You Believe

Recorded in 1968, this album was conceived by producer Andrew Loog Oldham as the British answer to the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. While aiming for a similar emotional tone and baroque instrumentation, Would You Believe lands somewhere markedly different, replacing Brian Wilson's feelings of adolescent uncertainty and searching with nonchalant psychedelia and easygoing chamber pop sunshine.

- Fred Thomas

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DIMANCHE 25 MAI 2025

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BILLY NICHOLLS - WOULD YOU BELIEVE

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Rock Band The Who Art Collage Print

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Pete Townshend Psychoderelict - Music Only [Half Speed Mastering] 2024 UMC ————————————————— Tracks LP One: 1. English Boy 2. Meher Baba M3 3. Let’s Get Pretentious 4. Meher Baba M4 (Signal Box) 5. Early Morning Dreams 6. I Want That Thing 7. Outlive the Dinosaur 8. Now and Then

Tracks LP Two: 1. I’m Affraid 2. Don’t Try to Make Me Real 3. Predictable 4. Flame 5. Meher Baba M5 (Vivaldi) 6. Fake It 7. English Boy (Reprise) —————————————————

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Billy Nicholls

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* Long Live Rock Archive

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ask me about my otp

[worldsaparted]

hi!! your writing is so so good i read all your fics ^_^ !! could you write something for maybe a jealous make out session with johnny lawrence omg 🙈🙈 like reader was just talking with daniel normally and johnny sees and gets all jealous and possessive AHHSJFJDJ im going crazy for this man

1. i love this request, and 2. thank u so much for ur support, i appreciate it :) <3

Lab Partner - Johnny Lawrence

As Y/n walked out of the indoor hallways, she glanced to Daniel Larusso as he held the door open for her - shooting a friendly smile. “What do you say about tomorrow, study hall?” He asked, his voice soft - and a bit scratchy. He awaited an answer from the girl who walked beside him as they exited school.

“That sounds good.” She responded, nodding and sending a small wave to him as he handed her the paper work from today’s class.

“Bye, Y/n.” His voice was soft and she returned a small bye, under her breath before her view shifted from Daniel - to Johnny, a small glare across his face as he watched Daniel Larusso make his way off campus.

He was leaning against his own car, and seeing as it was extremely cold as Christmas neared, his car roof was on.

Johnny Lawrence kept his view on Daniel Larusso as his girlfriend walked over, making her way to him and his car.

She met him, her hand tapping his chest to gain his attention and he glanced down at her after she placed a casual kiss against his jawline as a way of greeting him. “Hey - ” He gestured to the tan boy. “What the hell was that?” He watched as Y/n sighed, getting into his car and he did the same now, his gaze set on her.

“What?” She asked, her voice soft as the many cars of students leaving the school passed by, slowly but surely emptying out the parking lot.

Getting into the car, Johnny Lawrence sighed as he started it up - watching his girlfriend set her backpack in the back as he began driving out as well. He was clearly annoyed, and she could tell - the way he drove, the way he didn’t shut up about the subject. “I told you, he’s my lab partner.” Y/n justified, watching Johnny scoff.

“I’ve got a lab partner too, you don’t see me talking to her like that.” He sassed, parking his car in front of the small diner he sometimes took her too after school that was just around the corner.

“Well, he’s a good lab partner, Johnny. Knows how to do a lot.” Of course she was playfully egging him on, but with his temper - Johnny rolled his eyes - turning the ignition of his car off, holding his keys in his hand as he glanced over to Y/n - a small smile across her face.

“You’ve got to be joking.” He spoke, his voice low and Y/n shrugged, watching as he squinted his eyes - “Y/n.” He started, “I’ll take you home right now.” He threatened, and he carefully watched her before her soft smile widened.

She attempted to place an innocent, gentle kiss upon his lips to assure him she was kidding, though at the feeling of her lips meeting his , Johnny immediately closed the space between them.

He undid her seatbelt for her, his lips against hers slowly turning the kiss from slow and careful to rough and needy kisses.

His right hand was gripping her neck, and his left on her cheek as he held her firmly, placing continuous kisses against her lips - clearly in need of this.

His kisses were usually passionate, but when they were this aggressive it told all. Johnny was angry, but at the same time - he loved reminding her.

“What’d I tell you about Larusso?” He spoke against her lips, and as she attempted to pull away and respond, Johnny shook his head. “Shut up.” He mumbled, immediately placing his lips against hers again. This time, their parted lips met in a desperate, sloppy manner. Johnny gave himself an entrance to her mouth as he slipped his tongue in, perfectly exploring his girlfriend’s mouth.

Slowly, his hand reached into the inside of Y/n’a shirt, caressing her back and earning soft sighs in content as she nodded into the kiss. Now, Johnny was feeling a lot better. He smiled into the kiss, his eyes fluttering open as he spoke up, pulling away just an inch, leaning over her now. “Does he know how to do that?” He asked, his tone confident and almost playful - but Y/n knew he meant that question with everything in him.

This time, he waited for an answer, his eyebrow quirking a bit as he panted a little, hovering her. “Huh?” He searched her eyes, and Y/n’s lips curved into a small smile.

She took her hand to run it through his blonde, soft hair, and without any words - she answered by shaking her head. At this, Johnny Lawrence bit his lip, nodding and quickly removing his Cobra Jacket, throwing it to the back seat. He quickly leaned in once again, now moving forward and leaning her seat back to gain more comfort. His lips clashed against hers as if he was hungry, and he bit her bottom lip in the midst of their kiss, groaning a little in pleasure at the feeling of her hands roaming his chest, and ending up around his neck.

“I’ll do all your lab work.” He murmured against her lips again, his hands traveling up to her cup her face. He grabbed her, and held her in place as he continued to kiss her roughly, earning smiles against the kiss from Y/n. “You’ll never have to talk to him again, I promise you.” Those were the last words before Johnny continued to focus on kissing her, his thumbs rubbing against her jawline.

The sloppy kisses continued, Y/n allowed herself to pull him closer by wrapping her arms around his neck and she nodded against the kiss, her top lip in between both of his as he lightly sucked on it. His lips slowly left her swollen ones to run against her jawline, and his hands moved to rest inside her shirt, around her waist.

He lightly sucked at her skin as he moved down to her neck, and then to her chest. He earned small murmurs of pleasure from Y/n, and at that - he was completely fine. Could Daniel Larusso make her feel like this? Johnny Lawrence bit his lip before he took one hand out of her shirt, nodding and running it through her hair. “Yeah, that’s it.” He whispered, his lips against her ear before he placed soft, wet kisses against it, traveling down and back to her neck, then her lips.

Johnny Lawrence was in his own seventh heaven. Growing more and more pleased with each kiss. Thankfully, these windows were tinted. He took it to himself to remove Y/n’s jacket and he let out a low groan at the feeling of Y/n biting his lip, slowly tugging on it before pulling away and allowing him to remove her long sleeve as well. Johnny’s kisses were now on the skin above her bra - he knew she was allowing him to get this far in public because he had recently tinted his car windows and because of their circumstances today.

To make him feel better, to let him know that she truly was only his.

So of course, at the sight of her like this - he melted. Not just because she was beautiful but because he loved the ways she assured him that she was his. She took his chin, pulling him up to kiss his lips once again.

Johnny wasn’t sure he ever wanted to leave this car, his pants grew tighter and he found himself fiddling with her bra - which was sadly where she stopped him. He leaned up, his hand rubbing her thigh as his eyes searched hers and she softly kissed him once more, her hands in his hair that had grown from combed to messy, and disheveled. “Let’s go home.” She spoke, and immediately Johnny nodded, placing a few more hunger induced kisses against her lips before sitting back in his seat, watching her throw her shirt back on.

If only he was her lab partner.

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SamTory in Cobra Kai Season 6 Part 3

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i can’t stop winning

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Need a song about going to the dentist? Or maybe it's about drugs...

Billy Nicholls - White Lightning (1974)

The re-release of Billy Nicholls’ forgotten 1968 album Would You Believe has received much deserved attention, but nothing else he’s ever done has been given the same.  This song is from his 1974 LP Love Songs, an album that seems impossible to find (anyone want to burn me a copy?) Like Would You Believe, Billy called in all his more famous friends to help him - Ronnie Lane, Pete Townshend and Ian McLagan.  Hard to figure out what Billy’s going on about on this song, other than the first section about going to the dentist.  Drugs maybe?  Late 70s British pop rock band the Babys did their own humorless and overblown version .

Mummy pleeeeeeeeeeeeease…

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DUUUUUUDEEEEE

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Save the date!

April 8th at 12 PM PT, artist and voice actor Ashley Nichols (voice of Belle) will host a hunicast featuring the talents behind BBU!

It's going to be fun!

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These are all the notes I took during panels on the second day of the Salute to Cobra Kai convention:

Gianni DeCenzo

- “I’ve got muscles somewhere. There in there somewhere”

- “Demetri has some serious game”

- Gianni had a protective harness in the scene where he gets kicked in the balls and as soon as Khalil learned about that, he said he was going to try as hard as possible to break it

- Eli and Dem were both socially awkward and loners and they met and were platonic soulmates. He imagines that they met at coding camp and that’s where they became best friends

- Gianni said he would want an edible arrangement is someone broke his hand and compared Tory in that scene to Emperor Palatine

- Jacob and Gianni are trying to write every week and are trying to write movies or shows but they keep getting distracted

- “What 16 year old has premium yelp status? It’s Demetri and that’s it.”

- I asked what aspects/arcs Gianni wish could’ve been explored and he said prior to season 6, he would’ve said I wish we saw a more bad boy side of Demetri. He acknowledged how when Demetri decided he was going to be a “cool kid”, he just changed his hairstyle just like Hawk because that’s the only other person who’s really made that switch. (“Oh yeah a new haircut. I’m gonna do the same thing. That’s definitely what I was missing”)

- He mentioned how he liked that Demetri never really compromised on who he was as a person even as he did get better at karate

- They referred to Demetri and Hawk as a toxic, abuse relationship whenever they were asked about Hawk breaking Demetri’s arm

- He improvised “That felt good. Bitch!” because it felt like a Kyler thing to say and he wanted Demetri to stoop down to Kyler’s level

- The cast that Gianni wore in s3 was a real cast from a doctor, and the art department team would seal his arm up in it with extra plaster between scenes

- He neither confirmed nor denied a binary brothers spin off and said he would love to come back to play Demetri

- Gianni said he would’ve beaten up Demetri too because of how much he mentioned MIT in season 6

- Gianni imagines that the Binary Bros go off to college and become millionaires

- “As long as he has his binary bro, it will all work out”

- Demetri has come to really love karate and he’ll likely always to karate on some level

- When Demetri sold Johnny the phone, Billy flicked a bottle cap at Gianni and it almost broke a camera

- Favorite scene to film was the weapon demonstration in s4. He trained for 3 months to do 2 takes in the scene. At one point, the weapon flew out of his hand but he managed to catch it so it looked like he knew what he was doing

- Kyler was originally supposed to break the cinder block with his fist and despite everyone telling him not to hit it with his face, Joe Seo immediately decided to as soon as they called action

- Demetri likely googled “which dojo would hurt me the least” to decide which he would join and that in combination with the fact that it was free, he choose Miyagi Do

- “I don’t think Demetri would last if he stayed in his [Johnny’s] class”

Alicia Hannah-Kim, Martin Kove, & Yuji Okumoto

- “Out of Kwon, Hawk s3, and Johnny in KK, who is made out of the most Cobra Kai material?” and they all said Kwon

- Yuji described his and Kim’s relationship as fireworks. They’re kinda cut from the same cloth but it’s also kinda like adding gasoline to a fire, it’s an explosion

- If Sato returned in the series, it would be a very interesting dynamic because their relationship would’ve changed a lot.

- Kim would likely be devastated by Kreese’s death

- Martin Kove would like to play Tory if he had to choose anyone else and Yuji said he would either play Johnny or Hawk. Alicia said she’d like to play Zara

- Tory would likely believe that Kreese didn’t die and believe he would show up again, as would Johnny

- Sensei Kim was always rooting for Tory

- Originally Martin wanted to fight Terry with swords

- I just wanted to mention that almost every other question when it was relevant, they would just repeat “John Kreese never dies” and the entire audience would just go WILD

Musicians (Zach Robinson & Leo Birenberg)

- One episode takes them around 10 days to compose and the fight scenes take up most of that time

- The big fight in s6e10 took 2 full days to compose. Before fully composing it, they planned out chunks to determine where it switches from being a fun, cool brawl to serious and deadly

- They never read the scripts before hand and only write the music after watching the episode

- I asked about whether it was intentional to draw parallels between Danny and Terry with them both being introduced with more classical music. They said it was not to draw parallels between them but rather calling back to the original movies and that pallet. And then Terry’s music ended up shifting more toward a darker synth

Billy Zabka & Xolo Marideuna

- Gianni and Jacob (The Binary Brothers) are the most likely to break character and crack up

- Jacob was trouble and would joke around, bringing down Xolo with him. Jacob was able to lock in as soon as they start filming and left Xolo laughing

- Xolo mentioned Johnny curing Miguel’s asthma

- Xolo got the call that he got the role when he was coming home from school hanging out with his friends

- Someone joked that Johnny should become a doctor because he can cure asthma and paralysis

- Xolo confirmed he would come back as Blue Beetle in James Gunn’s DCU reboot but said he doesn’t think he can say anything else

- Billy mentioned twice that Johnny had no friends and no fish which makes me wonder if maybe he did have a fish at one point or it was potentially pitched and turned down

- Referred to Johnny rolling a blunt in the KK movie as “connecting with the Earth”

- They shot all of the stunts and scenes in the Sekai Taikai in one week

- The first movie Billy was in was a documentary his dad made when he was 5 and he played himself and he was punching his neighbor

- Sam and Tory would probably have a more fun time with each other at prom rather than being with Miguel so they would probably ditch him and just go off to hang out on their own

- Billy said he doesn’t think either Kreese or Terry died in the explosion

- Whenever they would get a question about the cast (out of everyone in the cast,…?/if you had to choose any other character to act as…?) they almost always answered “Bert”

Tanner Buchanan & Mary Mouser

- Mary said she wishes that we got to see Sam in Okinawa because she wanted to go to Okinawa

- Sam and Tory likely would’ve teamed up to defeat Zara if the three of them fought

- Tanner when asked which big fight was the most fun responded, “It’s hard to choose which fight was my favorite because I lost all of them”

- Mousechanan is Tanner’s favorite ship name of them and is what they would name a dojo is they shared one

- Tanner said he thinks is Axel didn’t cheat and break his leg, Robby could’ve beat him

- Someone asked if Johnnys training ever crossed the line from training to child abuse and Mary said she was too scared of Billy to answer

- Mary said that Tory and Sam influence each others karate styles

- Asked about a major plot twist- Mary said she personally hcs that Sam wasn’t straight

- Tanner said he would root for Kwon and Mary said she would root for Axel if those two fought

- Tanner wants Robby to ride a motorcycle

- The original story ended with Sam and Miguel not ending up together so she was shocked when Miguel also goes to Okinawa

- “Even if they’re not meant to be together, they’ll still always be in each others lives”

- Tory and Robby ALSO weren’t supposed to end up together, no one was

- They talked about a potential alternative universe where Robby and Sam didn’t break up and they both agreed it would take a lot longer for them to learn their lessons and grow if they remained in that relationship because the relationship between the two of them is very familiar and comfortable and safe. They would’ve have been able to grow as much if they hadn’t challenge themselves to walk away

- I again asked if there were any arcs/aspects they wish could’ve been explored and Mary said she wished we got to see more of Sam dealing with and working through her PTSD. She mentioned that behind the scenes in her personal interpretation of playing the character, she was acting Sam through the perspective of it taking her a lot longer to heal from her PTSD.

- Someone asked whether Tanner thought Johnny was a good dad and he was clearly trying to figure out what to say that wouldn’t upset people so after thinking for a bit he finally said that he thinks Johnny is a good dad now

- Tanner said he didn’t quite understand at first why they would have Robby push Miguel over the stairs after they spent the rest of the show trying to show that Robby could be good and the writers agreed. They said that Robby is kinda fueled by rage and that since he kicks backwards without looking, he doesn’t realize where exactly Miguel is and how the kick would push him over. Tanner also said that Miguel pushed Robby against the banister during the fight and joked that it wasn’t his fault Robby had better balance than Miguel

- In another universe, Mary would like to play Electra and be in any of the twilight movies (“I’d like to be a vampire in any degree”) and Tanner would like to play Robin or Ghost Rider, and maybe even be part of the John Wick series

- Tanner said if Axel hadn’t cheated, he thinks Robby could’ve taken him in and won