Archive for the 'The Seventies' Category
Whoops Apocalypse: Survivors
Survivors was one of my favourite TV things when it was broadcast lo those many years ago. I liked Abby, the woman who was looking for her son, and felt the life went out of the series when she left it. I believe the actress was fired for being an alcoholic or something, at which [...]
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Tags: Survivors
I think we know
A blast from the past
Residents of Buckingham were queuing up today outside the Tesco Express on the high street in order to spit in the doorway on their way to the new Waitrose, which has replaced the defunct Budgens in the Meadow Walk shopping centre.
Rumours had been rife for over a year that we’d be [...]
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Tags: shopping, Supermarkets, Tesco, Waitrose
I’ve previously noted Shelby Lynne’s tendency to reinvent herself, so it’s not unexpected that when you visit ShelbyLynne.com at the moment, there is no mention of her previous record, Suit Yourself, or the one before that, or indeed any of the records she’s released since abandoning her short-lived country career and turning to blue eyed [...]
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Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer
I mentioned Levon Helm the other day in the same breath as Ringo Starr: two great drummers who played for the singer and the song. I love Helm’s minimalist style, where what he leaves out is just as important as what he puts in.
His drums are an essential part of Dirt Farmer, his first solo [...]
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Pop on Trial – the verdict
It was kind of predictable, I think, that the BBC4 Pop on Trial jury would vote for the 1970s as the “most influential” decade of pop. There was an awful lot happening in the 70s; as to how much of it was really influential, I don’t know. Any programme that puts Paul Morley on the [...]
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Tags: 1950s, fifties, pop, pop on trial
Popping Out
BBC4’s Pop On Trial series has been moderately entertaining, if confusing. There seems to be a loose aggregation of related programmes, but (typically of the BBC these days) they don’t seem to be on at regular times.
The Pop Britannia strand might even have been useful in class, except Pete Townshend kept swearing, which would amuse [...]
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Tags: 1950s, fifties
A Saucepan Full of Sick Rats
There was a documentary on the other night about that Pink Floyd. Now, there was a certain time, when I was about 14, that I considered getting into these miserabilists essential to my development as a Thin Kid. The first three albums I ever bought, in order, were:
The Beatles 1967-1970 (aka Blue)
Pink Floyd – Animals
Thin [...]
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Born to be Bob
Television situation comedies are the topic for the 2008 GCSE Media Studies exam, which means I’ve been trawling through the archives looking for good, bad and indifferent examples to discuss in class.
It’s fair to say that the sitcom is in crisis, and has been for a number of years. If the likes of My Family [...]
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Imaginary Next Beatles Album
Last month, George Harrison’s solo albums were made available on the iTunes store, meaning that you can now buy Beatles solo stuff on iTunes, with the Beats themselves coming next year, it says here.
This news reminded me of a game Roy and I played a few years ago: proposing a track listing for an imaginary [...]
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Tags: iMix, iTunes
Bob Bible
One of my sisters bought me the Bob Dylan Encyclopaedia by Michael Gray for xmas. It’s a hefty thing, sure enough, though unlike most encyclopaedias it only has the one authorial voice. This means that if you find the views of Michael Gray objectionable in any way, there isn’t really anywhere to hide.
I think he’s [...]
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