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[Cormcolash]

Young Jeremy Beadle was cool and hip and down with the kids

Bickershaw Festival - Wikipedia

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His hand looks normal there

 

[therealjohnny]

Possibly old news to some but new to me

L Ron Hubbard's jazz ensemble

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[therealjohnny]

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[JohnnyRaz]

there is a bang of 'majority world music that the english speaking middle class has just discovered' about it (not a reflection of the artist, more the audience) - but this is pretty cool:

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[therealjohnny]

Weller and co sounding remarkably like a Dr Feelgood cover band

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[therealjohnny]

Actor Philip Jackson

 

[therealjohnny]

Micro Quiz-m is a pun on Microcosm

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[Scientician 0.8]

Actor Philip Jackson

Bit racist, mate

 

[hydromancer]

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The first Maiden EP 7" or tape of the same ​

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[therealjohnny]

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The first Maiden EP 7" or tape of the same ​

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I love this page from Sounds 1979. IronMaiden are in the heavy metal chart with their demo tape. Also of note is the 1950s Rock and Roll chart, the UK revival picking up steam.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Real heavy metal

 

[therealjohnny]

Dire fuckin Straits, yeah

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Maiden,Priest,Nugent,Gillan,Samson,Scorpions,UFO,Sabbath,AC/DC,Heart
Even Meatloaf
No way you would get a run that good these days.

 

[ann post]

Definitely not emergent music any more, being 40 years old

Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart on 26/1/2024

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[nuke terrorist]

Maiden,Priest,Nugent,Gillan,Samson,Scorpions,UFO,Sabbath,AC/DC,Heart
Even Meatloaf
No way you would get a run that good these days.

Styx though - twice!
The end of the 1970s / early 80's was best ever era for popular music - in UK at least.
Look at the top 30 in the chart on that page.
Smash Hits was more left field then than NME in last few decades. It was only a short step from charts to the popular independent scene of Pop Group, Discharge, Venom, Tank, Crass, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire etc.

 

[ann post]

Do Saxon fans not read about saxon though

 

[therealjohnny]

Do Saxon fans not read about saxon though

You mean the stuff about their ex bass player?

 

[therealjohnny]

"Can't Get You Out of My Head", which was written and produced by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis,

Rob Davis was the frock and earrings wearing guitarist in Mud

Can't Get You Out of My Head - Wikipedia

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[magicbastarder]

i see he's made accomodation for some navel gazing there.

 

[therealjohnny]

i see he's made accomodation for some navel gazing there.

Pierced navels would have been quite the thing back then