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Post by pulphack on Jun 7, 2008 18:50:07 GMT
oh, some names to conjure with here... anyone seen that whitehouse issue with cosey and gen p in - er - action? he was a big lad... as it happens, knew chris and cosey briefly in the early eighties as they lived around the corner and we had a mutual friend. it was hard to take the image seriously when you'd seen them in percy ingles with a cup of tea and a scone and their tinies.
manufactured romance - oh franklin, wasn't 'time of your life' one of the best pop punk singles never to be a hit? great tune, and she was cute - i used to work with a girl called Deb who looked like her, and was also a punk. i gave up my girlfriend for her and she walked off with a guy called Dennis. you can cry if you wish...
pauline murray - great singer, great records. saw penetration doing 'moving targets' at the 100 club last year, and they were great (robert blamire still there, as he has been since the begining and throuhg all the pauline projects). she signed a cd for my mate steph who's a big fan and got unavoidably detained.
also got an adverts demos album signed by gaye, who was there with tv smith, who had just got them pressed. he was signing for a few blokes (me included) when this guy asked if gaye would. tim said yes - cue bemused gaye signing for a line of blokes and asking them why they would want her signature? i told her it was because tim had said she would - how could i say that it was because she's still gorgeous (and she is!) without being hit?
i have a thing about judie tuke, as mrs ph looks like her. of course, i've had a thing about jt for longer than i've known mrs ph... we went to see judie play last year, and it was interesting to note how many blokes there with their other halves had partners who were blonde, and large of tooth and boob, with shaggy hair...hmm...
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Post by redbrain on Jun 7, 2008 18:54:22 GMT
Keeping Congratulations from winning Eurovision may be the one thing Franco did of which I approve. Indeed, Sandie Shaw's Eurovision winner was Puppet on a String. Not her best song. It wasn't even the best of the contenders, that year, for Sandie to sing. For anyone who may be wondering, the best contender was Had a Dream Last Night - written by Sandie's regular song writer Chris Andrews. I suspect that I'm the only Sandie Shaw fan on this board. If all of you were fans, there'd be no need for me to post this. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 7, 2008 18:56:13 GMT
It's a little known fact that Alistair MacLean burnt himself out after his first three novels, the harrowing HMS Ulysses, the magnificent Guns Of Navarone (later covered by The Specials) and South By Java Head.
He somehow conspired to insert a clause into the contract of anyone representing the UK at Eurovision that they had two years to pen a novel that would be published in his name.
Patricia Bredin set the ball rolling with the uninspired The Last Frontier. Things picked up when Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr churned out not only The Dark Crusader but also the genuinely thrilling Fear Is The Key
A low was reached with Kenneth McKellar's lacklustre sequel Force 10 From Navarone, leaving the divine Sandie to excel with my favourite MacLean, Puppet On A Chain (and no, she didn't type with her toes.)
It was all downhill from there. Sir Cliff tried with Caravan To Vaccares and later muffed it big time with Circus. Lulu's Bear Island wasn't up to scratch, and poor old Mary Hopkin was forbidden from trying.
Clodagh Rodgers' The Way To Dusty Death has its moments, as does The New Seekers Breakheart Pass, but the magic had gone.
I'm sure that The Fruit Eating Bears would have made a better job of Goodbye California than The Brotherhood Of Man.
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 7, 2008 19:30:52 GMT
I never knew that. It's amazing what you learn here, isn't it? anyone seen that whitehouse issue with cosey and gen p in - er - action? he was a big lad... Oddly enough, while I was browsing for pictures of Cosey suitable for posting on a family board like this one, I came across (no pun intended) a photo of Gen with his nob out. What are the odds? And talking of coincidences, when I was at college I used to have a crush on a girl called Lyndsey who looked a bit like Judie Tzuke and fancied herself as something of a singer. I'd forgotten all about her... |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 8, 2008 12:32:54 GMT
I have just fallen in love. Why was this Cosey creature hidden from me. What did I do wrong...
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Post by sean on Jun 8, 2008 13:44:56 GMT
Franklin, who did 'The Satan Bug'?
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 8, 2008 14:38:51 GMT
Franklin, who did 'The Satan Bug'? Franklin will know for sure, but judging from the famous skirt-ripping scene where all the main characters reveal they're actually wearing little mini-skirts underneath, my guess would be Bucks Fizz... |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 8, 2008 14:50:52 GMT
I have just fallen in love. Why was this Cosey creature hidden from me. What did I do wrong... Cosey hasn't exactly kept much hidden from anyone during her artistic career, Craig - but here's another classic picture of her with her clothes on just for you... OK, and for me too... |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 8, 2008 15:09:27 GMT
And just to maintain the balance, here's another picture of Moe Tucker - pictured in the early 70s with her daughter and some blokes pretending to be The Velvet Underground. OK, Lou Reed probably played the pop princess more than she ever did, but she's genuine rock 'n' roll royalty. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 8, 2008 15:36:39 GMT
It's lucky I didn't know her as an adolescent. I would never have slept. Although I must admit she's ringing some bells now in the crumbling church called memory.
Moe Tucker: now I did know and love her. Velvet Underground - pure unadulterated class.
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Post by carolinec on Jun 8, 2008 16:27:16 GMT
Er, this is all a bit one-sided. Isn't it about time we had a sexy singing blokes thread?  |
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Post by sean on Jun 8, 2008 16:49:32 GMT
VU's 'I'm Sticking With You' with Moe on vocals is one of the odder songs I've heard on children's tv in recent years - they used it on CCBBs, but stopped before it got to all that stuff about people hanging from trees...
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 8, 2008 17:21:24 GMT
Franklin, who did 'The Satan Bug'? 'Twas cheeky Bryan Johnson (not that one) who almost put one over on Alistair by nipping out TSB under the name Ian Stuart and claiming all the royalties, and then did his 'official' MacLean The Golden Rendezvous. And he finished second in Eurovision! And there were more than two contestants! Bucks Fizz, as any fule kno, did Floodgate. |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 8, 2008 17:57:48 GMT
...the magnificent Guns Of Navarone (later covered by The Specials) The original Guns Of Navarone is a classic. The Skatalites where never as good again after MacLean left and Hammond Innes took over keyboard duties. Although The Trojan Horse (Trojan, 1941) has a few good tunes, and the later Campbell's Kingdom, featuring vocals by UB40's Ali Campbell (who actually changed his first name in honour of Alistair Maclean) is still rightly regarded as a defining moment in the careers of all concerned. Of course, some of the best music of that era came out of Ian "Scratch" Fleming's Goldeneye studio in Jamaica, which mysteriously burned down in the early '80s, but not before he'd helped launch Shirley Bassey, Sheena Easton and Duran Duran as international singing stars. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 8, 2008 18:53:40 GMT
In My 'Do Eagles Dare trivia pursuits quiz' I can declare with confidence that the castle where it was supposed to be set in real life was destroyed after ww11 because the Germans thought it would become a pilgrimage site for Nazis. Shame they didn't think of the tourist angles at the time.
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