Tony Blackburn counts down the 60 best selling records of the 1960s on Radio 2 from 10am.
I think it might be his first programme on national BBC radio since his last sacking from Radio 1, whenever that was.
He's always been one of my favourite presenters, a very clever man who plays the fool to suit himself - a bit like David Beckham.
I remember Tony introducing the record 'Venus in Blue Jeans' with the quip: "One slip of the tongue and we're all off the air."
Today's show should be absobloominlutely poptastic, mate.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sknv3
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Tony blackburn is as exctting as used toilet paper, and the 60s was, on the whole (there were some exceptions) a time of desperate 50's washouts.
As they say, if you can remember the 60s you were not there. Thank the lord for that.
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...Tony blackburn is as exctting as used toilet paper, and the 60s was, on the whole (there were some exceptions) a time of desperate 50's washouts...
Positive and authoritative post, as always, Zero.
The programme blurb says expect plenty of the Beatles and the Stones.
If you can't get off on that, there's no music in your soul.
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I did say - exeptions - Ifi.
And the beatles? dont make me laugh. I wanna hold your hand, and she loves you yeah yeah yeah? purile.
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Actually, in retrospect I was being a bit unfair. A quick check of my failing memory clock reveals it was the 60s when I pursuaded my dad to drive us to Clacton so we could flash our headlights at Radio Caroline at dusk. It was an excting time for radio.
Pity about the beatles crap tho.
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Fun? sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me.
I have to agree with Zero - the 60s represent a low point in popular music. surer there were a few exceptions but loking back most of the music is puerile and empty and most of the groups of the time lacked musical ability. It was the decade that destroyed much and gave little in its place and that includes music.
Tony Blackburn is exactly what he seems - a twerp.
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Not a fan of much of the 60's, girl's excepted.
Tone Blackburn i like and always have, unlike most of the egotistical dj's he didn't take himself too seriously.
An ability to laugh at oneself is one of the most important and endearing British traits there is and fast disappearing.
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...Tony Blackburn is exactly what he seems - a twerp...
He's a very clever man playing a twerp.
Just heard the start of the programme - 'music power' jingle, Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Stones and Tony blathering on about nothing.
Brilliant pop radio.
''Lot of Beatles, lot of Elvis and a lot of Rolling Stones in the next four hours."
Top stuff.
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tony like kenny said what they thought
and better men they are were for it too
up the revolution
far too many yes men in this world these days
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I'll give you that he says what he thinks. The fact that he spent his life talking drivel shows the quality of his thought.
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>> lot of Elvis
Yes thats the 50s hangover carp I was talking about.
I am actually listening to it, so far Tom Jones has been the highlight.
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Mary Hopkin! those were the days my friends, oh yes indeedy.
< heavy sarcasm at work >
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You're answering your own posts again
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Im the only one who agrees with me.
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Mary Hopkin is having a bit of a renaissance these days - very understated singer.
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Hardly Carole King, or Carly Simon is she.
Edit. Ah! she is welsh. that explains it. You are morphing into a taff PU.
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Pop is supposed to be trivial. It's implied by it's name.
Does it surprise you that musicals have lots of singing in them...?
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>> It's implied by it's name.
No its not. Carly Simon was "popular" Tapestry was one of the mega selling Albums. Mary Hopkin didnt have one.
>> Does it surprise you that musicals have lots of singing in them...?
Did we mention musicals?
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...spent his life talking drivel shows the quality of his thought...
Tony today: "It's nice to be here," he said. "In fact, when you get to my time of life, it's nice to be anywhere."
The comment has meaning about advancing age, yet it's made in a manner suitable for all ages and all types of listener.
He has always been brilliant at doing stuff like that.
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>> He has always been brilliant at doing stuff like that.
He won 'I'm a celebrity get me out of here' a few years ago, one of those reality shows where 'celebrities' are put together in quite testing conditions in the Australian jungle and voted off by the public until only one is left. To win you need to be fairly well sorted, funny, and not have too many flaws.
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...To win you need to be fairly well sorted, funny, and not have too many flaws...
Spot on, Focus.
I heard him do an interview about that a few years later in which he said he was initially scared of the public's reaction, and genuinely surprised when they appeared to like him.
With my Dr Ifithelps hat on, I diagnosed a bit of insecurity and a need to be liked.
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"With my Dr Ifithelps hat on"
What would Dr Ifithelps say about me. (At the risk of shining a light on something best kept in the dark)
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...What would Dr Ifithelps say about me?...
You are a foppish gwaphcs designer who does dwawings, but are keen to emphasise you have both a manly and dark side, and are prepared to exaggerate to achieve that aim.
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Spot on Doctor. Same time next week?
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Er, yes, shall I pop the invoice in the post?
Have to pay the rent, you know.
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Heard Keith Richard use the same line in a couple of live concerts in the late 90s and more recently (on the Shine A Light tour). I think it applies even more to him!!
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Drat - only just turned on, and missed most of The Seekers' 'I'll never find another you'. I hope 'the carnival is over' is still to come.
As a kid I saw Tony doing a Radio One Roadshow in St Austell many (35?) years ago, and I quite like him. Nothing wrong with some simple tunes - that was a phase music was going through. I grew up listening to my Dad's 'red' Beatles album, and I still like a lot of the early stuff, generally a lot more than the later stuff (such as 'All you need is love', just playing now). The simplicity of the arrangements is refreshing.
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...and missed most of The Seekers' 'I'll never find another you'...
To be fair to my mate Tone, he does take the mick out of some of the more pappy pop.
He did a dance music show on BBC Radio London in the 1980s which made him something of a cult hero among fans of the genre.
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"Two Little Boys" by Rolf harris has just been on. It sold more than Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction and Strawberry Fields.
Maybe the sixties wern't as cool as we thought?
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Only just turned it on, hope we haven't missed 'pictures of matchstick men'.
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>> Only just turned it on, hope we haven't missed 'pictures of matchstick men'.
Only reached number 7 according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men so if it hasn't been on yet I don't think it will be.
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>> Only reached number 7 according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men so if it hasn't been on yet I
>> don't think it will be.
Oh dear no accounting for other peoples lack of taste, i loved it and still do..;)
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>> Oh dear no accounting for other peoples lack of taste, i loved it and still
>> do..;)
Not having exactly the same tastes as the vast majority isn't necessarily a bad thing - as I said (below), think Ford Escort :)
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>> Oh dear no accounting for other peoples lack of taste, i loved it and still do..;)<<
Rock on, man ... these are for you & Mr's bennet ~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4YYI8G5EM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjQKMxJNEc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iirNwgdZbjM
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>> Rock on, man ...
Cheers Dog, another lasting memory for me was hearing 'In A Broken Dream' by Python Lee Jackson playing on Luxemourg whilst lying in bed in me freezing cold bedroom behind those wonderful Crittall steel windows....used to wake up with ice on the insides.
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>> in me freezing cold bedroom behind those wonderful Crittall steel windows....used to wake up with ice on the insides.<<
Yep! ... Been there mate Re: the ice + coal shoved in the built in bedroom cupboard + 3 sibs to a bedroom,
'they' don't know they're alive these days :)
We even had coal in the bath at one time IIRC.
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>> Cheers Dog, another lasting memory for me was hearing 'In A Broken Dream' by Python
>> Lee Jackson playing on Luxemourg whilst lying in bed in me freezing cold bedroom behind
And there you have it. In a broken dream hit the UK charts in 1972.
the early 1970s. This was the golden age of modern pop music.
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>> the early 1970s. This was the golden age of modern pop music.
Indeed it was i became a lifelong fan of Alice Cooper way back then and still listen to his music regularly.
I hope Tone does a show with a 70's countdown sometime.
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I liked Alice Cooper's radio programme as well - he was a genuine enough guy.
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>> I liked Alice Cooper's radio programme as well - he was a genuine enough guy.
Still does the breakfast show on Planet Rock, which my son listens to on DAB. He does indeed sound genuine, and knowledgeable.
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>> the early 1970s. This was the golden age of modern pop music.
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The Golden Era of modern pop music is whatever era during which you happen to have been a bright young thing. For me, the mid 1990s, when I was in my 20s. The exception is the 1980s, which can not be considered a golden era in anyone's book as everything was utterly dire, except, ironically, Dire Straits.
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>> Maybe the sixties wern't as cool as we thought?
Not unique to the 60s, or music - best sellers have mass appeal so are quite likely to be uncool, think Ford Escort.
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>> I hope 'the carnival is over' is still to come.
Yes! Number 6.
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>> You are morphing into a taff PU.
That made me chuckle aloud Zero. However...
you underrate the Beatles (although they weren't everyone's cup of tea, very original sound, some good songs)... and you fail to point out that the sixties were an orgy of bad taste, immorality and sentimental political twaddle. I blame the dope which worked far too well on a lot of people.
'If you can remember the sixties you were more or less adult when they started and didn't o/d too seriously.'
Obviously those who were children until 1967 or so aren't qualified to judge.
(Tolerant, patronising smirk)
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>> and you fail to point out that the sixties were an orgy of
>> bad taste, immorality and sentimental political twaddle. I blame the dope which worked far too
>> well on a lot of people.
I was 'only' born in 64, but you can't you roughly divide the 60s into pre-hippy and hippy, the former being not so dopey? I definitely prefer the pre-hippy Beatles.
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Any guesses for what's going to be number one?
I reckon one of the early Beatles singles, maybe She Loves You, or I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
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>> Any guesses for what's going to be number one?
Maybe Beatles, or how about something like 'Last Waltlz'? (Could look it up but I'm not going to!)
EDIT: or maybe not :)
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He's just started playing The Last Waltz, but something like that would be my 'other' guess.
Either that, or perhaps a slightly later Beatles song when their popularity had really built - Can't Buy Me Love?
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>> Any guesses for what's going to be number one?
Unchained Melody? (Righteous Brothers)
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>> Unchained Melody? (Righteous Brothers)
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preferred Jimmy Young's version meself...sorry..;)
swmbo reckons it'll be a Beatles winner.
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>> >> Unchained Melody? (Righteous Brothers)
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>> preferred Jimmy Young's version meself...sorry..;)
Doesn't bother me - I just know that the RB version is always cropping up in these sort of lists, although I think it does well in best selling of all time due to being regularly re-released through the decades.
It does make the hairs on my neck stand up though when he hits the high note near the end.
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>> Any guesses for what's going to be number one?
"I can't stop loving you" by Ray Charles.
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I'd never have picked Tears by Ken Dodd as number three.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand is number two, so number one must be She Loves You.
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so number one must be She Loves
>> You.
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First record i ever bought.
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She Loves You it is.
Brilliant.
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>> so number one must be She Loves You.
Only fair it was a Beatles track I suppose - glad it was one of their earlier ones.
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Enjoyed that and TB's hopeless jokes and fun presenting style we'll probably 'listen again' to the stuff we missed, thanks Iffi.
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...Only fair it was a Beatles track..
Only a scouse band could rhyme 'fair' with 'her', which sounds more like 'hair' in Beatles-speak.
I think it's only fair
It might not hurt you to
Apologise to her
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I reckon Tony Blackburn is a good bloke.
I remember back in the days of the Radio One Roadshow, I saw quite a few Radio one DJs at the seaside doing their shows and out of all of them, Tony Blackburn and Dave Lee Travis were the best at entertaining the crowd.
I remember that most DJs just spun the records and at the end of the show, when they went off air, thanked you and slipped away leaving you slightly dissapointed.
Tony Blackburn stayed on for over an hour, telling jokes and having fun with the audience. He didn't have to do that, but it's the sort of bloke he is.
Those were the days, it seemed like the sun was always shining and petrol was cheap.
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In the early sixties especially, nasty old men like Tony Blackburn were recruited by the publishing and media conglomerates to confuse the young and pull the wool over their eyes - not really a difficult task it must be admitted. That certainly helped to keep the music boring and the public discourse as half-witted as ever.
Tony Blackburn was all right though. The really nasty one was an appalling sexless old woman in a blonde wig with a vaguely Mancunian accent and a deeply nasty look in its eye. Couldn't keep its mouth shut but never, ever, said anything rational or interesting. Right-hand Thing to the Evil One, and still alive I believe.
ErUHerUHerUHerUHerUH... Oh do shut up and get back in your lavatory. 'Ow's about that then?
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Do you mean Jimmy Saville ?
He might have come across as dopey and he was a bit eccentric, but he certainly wasn't stupid.
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Multi talented guy, our Jimmy. Rode the Tour of Britain cycle race and later earned his living as a professional wrestler.
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>> Do you mean Jimmy Saville ?
He used to do voluntary work at Broadmoor prison/hospital, which is near Bracknell where I used to live ("Ten o'clock Broadmoor siren driving me mad" - Sound of the Suburbs, The Members). I competed against him at least once in either the Bracknell or Crowthorne half marathons of the early 90s. His reputation went downhill after a Louis Theroux programme IIRC.
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"His reputation went downhill after a Louis Theroux programme IIRC."
Doesn't he live with the mummified remains of his mother or something like that?
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>> Doesn't he live with the mummified remains of his mother or something like that?
Yes, I think that was one of the things that came out of that programme - not sure if it's still the case though.
EDIT: although perhaps not: "A bachelor, Savile lived with his mother (whom he refers to as "The Duchess") and has kept her bedroom and wardrobe exactly as it was when she died. Every year he has her clothes dry cleaned."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
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"He says the truth is that he didn't bury her for five days because the ground was icy."
www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,178381,00.html
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>> Doesn't he live with the mummified remains of his mother or something like that?
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Has he got the daddified remains of his father as well?
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>> His reputation went downhill after a Louis Theroux programme IIRC.
What reputation for heaven's sake? All you had to do was see and hear him for ten seconds to register the presence of a sinister reactionary creep.
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>> >> His reputation went downhill after a Louis Theroux programme IIRC.
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>> What reputation for heaven's sake? All you had to do was see and hear him
>> for ten seconds to register the presence of a sinister reactionary creep.
Unfortunately as a youngster watching Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops, and listening to his Old Record Club on Radio 1 (after Noel Edmonds), I wasn't blessed with your powers of perception AC. So I grew up seeing him as a benevolent figure - I suspect many others did the same.
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Jimmy Saville was(is) is a very charitable person, misunderstood by most people. Bit like Bernard Manning.
BM was allegedly a racist, but his contribution to Jewish charities in north Manchester was legendary and many a stag night was held at the Embassy Club, with the Diet Coke swilling Jews (including me on several occasions) surrounded by remarkably benevolent hard men of Harpurhey. They don't make em like that any more!
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>> BM was allegedly a racist, but his contribution to Jewish charities in north Manchester was
>> legendary
I don't think Jews are what he was famous for being racist about.
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>> he was a bit eccentric, but he certainly wasn't stupid
I didn't say he was stupid. His job was to keep others stupid, and he must have been good at it because he lasted far too long.
A bit eccentric? What utter rubbish. A bog standard petty bourgeois writ very large and covered in crap psychedelic paint. Ugh.
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>> I didn't say he was stupid. His job was to keep others stupid, and he
>> must have been good at it because he lasted far too long.
AC - please could you expand? I'm no great fan of his, but I'd like to know what you mean by that. Eg. are you saying his job was different to most others in the entertainment industry?
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>> are you saying his job was different to most others in the entertainment industry?
Certainly not. But he was stuck up our noses more consistently than most. There may well have been a reason for that.
I detested Jimmy Saville on sight. An unpleasant, ignorant idiot foisted on the young as something edgy and up to the minute. The man was even given a TV show in which he was supposed to examine youth attitudes. I remember it well for a disgusting imitation of a TV programme in which, whenever one of the youths invited started to say anything - anything at all, never mind how dumb - his or her remarks would be interrupted within seconds by that disgusting old woman with a quacking farrago of meaningless rubbish. How any of you can even see the man as a human being is beyond me. Perhaps it's because most of you were in utero at the time.
Call me a snob if you like, but make sure you know what it means. The other sixties public figure who struck me in the same way, as a barely-human thug foisted on us by the authorities, was Quintin Hogg or Lord Hailsham.
Of course there are plenty of new ones to replace them. But we don't want to see their names mentioned unnecessarily, so keep your candidates to yourself.
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>> >> are you saying his job was different to most others in the entertainment industry?
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>> Certainly not. But he was stuck up our noses more consistently than most. There may
>> well have been a reason for that.
Because he was popular?
>> I detested Jimmy Saville on sight. An unpleasant, ignorant idiot foisted on the young as
>> something edgy and up to the minute.
I'm not sure what time period you're talking about, but I never got that impression when I used to watch Jim'll Fix It and TOTP..
>> The man was even given a TV show
Was that Jim'll Fix It or something else? Obviously from your description I admit it doesn't sound great, although in the unlikely event it was JFI it's not how I remember it.
>> How any of you can even see the man as a human
>> being is beyond me. Perhaps it's because most of you were in utero at the
>> time.
Because presumably we didn't see/experience the things you saw/experienced.
>> Call me a snob if you like, but make sure you know what it means.
I respect your opinion - I'm assuming it's based on different evidence.
>> The other sixties public figure who struck me in the same way, as a barely-human
>> thug foisted on us by the authorities, was Quintin Hogg or Lord Hailsham.
Well AFAIK he never did TOTP so I'm not that familiar with him :)
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>> - his or her>> remarks would be interrupted within seconds by that disgusting old woman with a quacking farrago>> of meaningless rubbish. .
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I never liked Jimmy Savile. I thought he was completely false - and vulgar to boot.
Who is the disgusting old woman to whom you refer?
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I think I'm a bit too young to recognise any of this - what exactly has Saville done to make you hate him so?
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>> I think I'm a bit too young to recognise any of this - what exactly
>> has Saville done to make you hate him so?
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>>>>>>>>i dont get it either
say everything twice
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>> but he certainly wasn't stupid.
Member of Mensa according to Wiki - didn't know that.
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Bring back the Hairy Cornflake:)
pat
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>> The really nasty one was an appalling sexless old
>> woman in a blonde wig with a vaguely Mancunian accent and a deeply nasty look
>> in its eye. Couldn't keep its mouth shut but never, ever, said anything rational or
>> interesting. Right-hand Thing to the Evil One, and still alive I believe.
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>> ErUHerUHerUHerUHerUH... Oh do shut up and get back in your lavatory. 'Ow's about that then?
Oh dear, you southerners do struggle with northern accents. Jimmy Savile was born in Leeds and still lives there.
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>> 'If you can remember the sixties you were more or less adult when they started
>> and didn't o/d too seriously.'
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>> Obviously those who were children until 1967 or so aren't qualified to judge.
I was 13 in 1967. Uber levels of boy teen testosterone imprints your memories. Girls with flowers in their hair never did it for me. I remember going to a slade gig. They (and me) were in levi sta press, ben sherman shirts, and doc martin boots. and a no1 haircut. I had a lambretta Ld 150 stashed round a mates place we used to rock up to southend on.
(insurance? license? what were they?)
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Listened to bits of it - some were cheesy, some were good, some brought back memories - most of them were familiar if not actually well known, lots of the stuff influenced what we listened to in the 70s and 80s - all in all quite a good programme although I normally deplore "Easy Listening" but enjoyed what I heard today.
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>> I had a lambretta Ld 150 stashed round a mates place we used to rock up to southend on.
(insurance? license? what were they?)
You were doing that at 13 Zero?
Chapeau! You little devil you.
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>> Chapeau!
Zut alors et sacré bleu!
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Just for fun - music - too much. - Zero
