Ultimate Picture Palace February 1911 as the Oxford Picture Palace. In 1917 the manager was conscripted to serve in the First World War. The cinema was closed and stood unused for many years before being turned into as a furniture warehouse. In 1976 Bill Heine and Pablo Butcher reopened the cinema as the Penultimate Picture Palace. They added a sculpture of Al Jolson's hands by John Buckley to the façade. The first film to be shown was "Winstanley". Under the new management the cinema gained a reputation for showing an eclectic and provocative range of films that set it apart from the mainstream
Like an Old Fashioned Waltz has sporadically performed the songs "Solo" and "It'll Take a Long Time". "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz" was recorded by Emmylou Harris on her 1983 album "White Shoes". Eric Johnson and Susan Cowsill covered "At the End of the Day" for the 1995 compilation "True Voices". Fish covered "Solo" on his 1993 album "Songs from the Mirror". All tracks credited to Sandy Denny unless otherwise stated The remastered CD version included four bonus tracks: Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Like an Old Fashioned Waltz is the third solo album by English folk rock singer Sandy Denny, released in June 1974.