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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    To Blockbuster??
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    punkdoc said:
    To Blockbuster??
     ;)
    A [virtual] prize if you know the connection between the lead singer and a famous crime drama. 
    Can't believe it's taken 474 previous records for #The Night to make it into J's Jukebox. Superb song.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited October 2022
    I don't know what you're all talking about but I'm really glad he's still knocking about. I really felt he was speaking to me in the olden days with my tranny under the bedclothes. That's a real talent for radio presenters. Not many have  it.
    PS. I believe tranny means something else now. Just to be clear. I meant transistor radio.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Fairygirl said:
      
    My daughters still don't really believe me about the grief he got over the infamous "Bay City Rollers incident" back then. I don't blame them - when you look at what gets broadcast unnoticed now!

    What was that Fairygirl, I can't remember it?

    What's all this about S&G and Frinton Flashers? People behave yourselves it's Sunday.  B)
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Google it @Uff. There's stuff on you tube etc that will explain if you really want to know. But I think you needed to be there. Not necessarily at Frinton. It was a connection between the lonely pirates and what passes for civilisation. I read somewhere then, that Frinton banned ice cream vendors. If there's any justice in the world there's  now a dozen chicken shops with one score in the door
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2022
    Back in the day Frinton-on-sea certainly banned fish & chips shops … it was very Hyacinth Bucket back then … slightly better now, but many of the inhabitants still have ‘pretentious of grandeur’ 🤣 

    https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/life-essex-town-didnt-want-1963862

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited October 2022
    @Uff - the accompanying video for one of their pitiful songs had them sitting on a Rolls Royce. When they [thankfully] dropped from the No 1 spot, Johnnie announced the new No 1 with a reference to them being knocked off their Roller at the top of the chart. 
    Hard to believe he got a real roasting for it. 

    They made me ashamed to be Scottish, that shower  :#

    Forgot - a wee clue for @punkdoc. 'There's been a murrrrderrr....'
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Fairygirl, Are we talking Taggart?  I think the lead singer from Sweet was the brother of the actor that played Taggart. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I'm not sure that quite right.
    I thought he was adopted by the parents of the Taggart actor?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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