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Post by sesley on Jun 14, 2011 12:22:03 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Jun 15, 2011 17:00:05 GMT
Me too - 17, I mean.
But wasn't Top of the Pops dismal back then? We are watching it though, and recreating the exact feelings that we had back then, where you're hoping for something decent to come on - Yes, David Bowie! No, it's not him, they've got a dance troupe dancing to his record - I think it was them dancing to TVC15 that was the worst dance routine I've ever seen. Even the dancers looked embarrassed. Oh God, Paul Nicholas again. And all those limp rock/pop bands who have no idea what to play, and do a kind of soft rock/disco with lots of harmonies. Well, they'd all be gone in a year or so.
This Lizzie were ok, though.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 15, 2011 18:22:03 GMT
I was 4 years old then...a certain film called Star Wars was just under 12 months away from general release (and changing my life irrevocably).  AH |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 15, 2011 18:23:32 GMT
Me too - 17, I mean. But wasn't Top of the Pops dismal back then? We are watching it though, and recreating the exact feelings that we had back then, where you're hoping for something decent to come on - Yes, David Bowie! No, it's not him, they've got a dance troupe dancing to his record - I think it was them dancing to TVC15 that was the worst dance routine I've ever seen. Even the dancers looked embarrassed. Oh God, Paul Nicholas again. And all those limp rock/pop bands who have no idea what to play, and do a kind of soft rock/disco with lots of harmonies. Well, they'd all be gone in a year or so. This Lizzie were ok, though. LOL, that is beyond lame...absolute fail! ;D AH |
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jun 15, 2011 19:27:07 GMT
I'd have been 18 then..rarely watched TOTP because I found it embarassing....  More into whisky.....  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jun 15, 2011 19:45:36 GMT
1977 I was 11/12 and just started secondary school.
Grease came out that same year. And yes, I saw both it and Star Wars when they first came out.
Worst ever TOTP 'interpretation' had to be the Legs & Co dance to the Clash's 'Bankrobber'.
What were they all about?
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Post by everso on Jun 15, 2011 20:24:58 GMT
I just clicked on the link and had to close it quick. We're on holiday at the moment and we're all sitting round watching t.v. (The Apprentice  ). When the link started up the music was so loud everyone jumped and growled so I'll have to play it later on. In 1976 I was pregnant with my son (who, co-incidentally is sitting next to me at the moment) and I wasn't really into TOTP. Frankly, I think the best time was in the mid to late 60s for it. The 70s had some pretty crap music and some very crap fashions. |
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Post by everso on Jun 15, 2011 21:10:17 GMT
Oh my god, I just realised, it wasn't my son I was pregnant with, it was my daughter! 35 years ago. Good lord...  I've had a bit too much wine and a bar of chocolate, what can I say? |
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Post by trubble on Jun 15, 2011 23:09:43 GMT
1977 I was 11/12 and just started secondary school. Grease came out that same year. And yes, I saw both it and Star Wars when they first came out. Worst ever TOTP 'interpretation' had to be the Legs & Co dance to the Clash's 'Bankrobber'. What were they all about? Wait! You've gone mad. That was 1978. I was 8. I went to see Grease in the cinema. Twice. |
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Post by everso on Jun 16, 2011 6:45:28 GMT
1977 I was 11/12 and just started secondary school. Grease came out that same year. And yes, I saw both it and Star Wars when they first came out. Worst ever TOTP 'interpretation' had to be the Legs & Co dance to the Clash's 'Bankrobber'. What were they all about? Wait! You've gone mad. That was 1978. I was 8. I went to see Grease in the cinema. Twice. YES! That's why I was confused. I went to see Grease when I was pregnant with my son. My time lines always seem to involve my pregnancies. Hands up who fell a little bit in love with John Travolta in Grease? |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jun 16, 2011 9:09:34 GMT
Ah well, you know what they say; if you can remember the 1970s you weren't really there.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 16, 2011 10:02:30 GMT
Oh my god, I just realised, it wasn't my son I was pregnant with, it was my daughter! 35 years ago. Good lord... I've had a bit too much wine and a bar of chocolate, what can I say? My daughter was born in 1977, and that year I went to work at Vickers, RIP, which eventually inspired the thought of going to work in Holland (consummated when Thatcher seized power). So it was a good year. If I remember rightly, in December '77 Newcastle was snowed in and the Tyne Tunnel was closed by ice on the approach roads. |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 10:55:25 GMT
1976 - I did the second half of a catering course, which involved 3 weeks of "Industrial Experience" at Nottingham University, in the kitchen and serving. I nabbed a great Doctors Of Madness poster from one of the corridors; I think I also got the lp it was advertising from Nottingham. Their next lp came out a few months later, and I got that from Donny, on the way back from a 1 week writing course with Ted Hughs and Emma Tennant and Angela Carter (E Tennant got me pissed). I also liked Be Bop Deluxe (DoM had supported them one time). I spent the summer trying not to find work; one time my mother made me go down to Spillers where they had half day work unloading flour off boats. I looked in the big area past the gate but there was no one there, and I came away. I don't think I would have been able to do it, anyway. A bunch of us went to Reading Festival, not bothering much about waterproofing as we were in the middle of a drought. Well, at the end of a drought, as it turned out. I started working at the Co-op. In a notebook I had for many years, "18th of October: Mrs Searby coming to collect space Lego." Mrs Searby will probably be dead now. I've got all maudlin now. Damn you all. I hardly ever saw Totps at this time as I was going out with someone who didn't like it. There was hardly anything on it that I liked, though I was annoyed to miss Cockney Rebel doing Mr Soft, with a different group to the one that recorded it. I finally saw it many years later, on You Tube. I have a picture of myself at the college where I did the catering course, with blue hair (after seeing Doctors of Madness - see below). I may scan it later. I look like my grandmother in it.  (I never realised how deformed they look in this picture.) |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jun 16, 2011 12:08:01 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 12:27:20 GMT
ok. I'll try to get it done in the next couple of days. (Got to set the printer up, etc.)
This is that Ruby Flipper dance routine I mentioned earlier. The poor bloody sods, though.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 16, 2011 16:16:36 GMT
Who wants to see the picture of Aubrey with blue hair?  The Honour is to Serve . . .  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 16:54:07 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 16:56:12 GMT
One from about the same time (though you can't see me):  Another one, from about 4 years later:  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 16, 2011 17:00:13 GMT
And did I ever post this from about 4-5 years ago? I might have done, as it's the coolest picture of me in existence: the body next to me belongs to my sister:  (Sorry for the self indulgence - just looking through Photobucket. You're lucky I didn't start putting pictures of cats up.) |
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Post by Weyland on Jun 16, 2011 18:38:24 GMT
And did I ever post this from about 4-5 years ago? I might have done, as it's the coolest picture of me in existence: the body next to me belongs to my sister: (Sorry for the self indulgence - just looking through Photobucket. You're lucky I didn't start putting pictures of cats up.) That IS cool, Aub. I'm thinking Newsnight Review. Is your sister Kirsty Wark? |
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). When the link started up the music was so loud everyone jumped and growled so I'll have to play it later on.
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