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Post by harryburrows on Feb 21, 2016 16:47:42 GMT
I bet your puch was better than my NSU ( no sodding use ) , but it was a good starting point . Loved my old triumph though Or Non Specific Urethritis as they call it down the clinic Harry. Had that once as well
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Post by Billybigbollox on Feb 21, 2016 18:06:05 GMT
Or Non Specific Urethritis as they call it down the clinic Harry. Had that once as well Me too mate. Chance would be a fine thing nowadays.
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Post by Linx on Feb 21, 2016 18:31:57 GMT
Bad points: Shitty unreliable cars that rusted. Times were more violent, especially school and football matches. Kids could buy fireworks, which meant that October to December was loud and dangerous. Food was crap. Clothes and fashion were crap. Hair styles were crap. Keg beer ruled (Double Diamond, Watneys Red Barrel, Ansells, M&B) and it was all crap; it was the 70s that saw the massive shift to lager drinking, and who could blame us? The floating pound, the strikes, the blackouts, the oil crisis, the sugar shortage, massive inflation. Good points: Dad's Army, FA Cup finals that were a family event, Morecambe & Wise, long hot summers, playing outside with your mates all day. Stoke were a top five team for a while but were also relegated in the same decade. I think I prefer today. Sounds like you were too old ,too young or much too sensible Linx . Despite all of your negative points the 70s was a great decade 8 years old at the start of it; 18 at the end, harry. So, basically, I was an adolescent throughout the 70s, and it was my schooldays. I didn't experience it as an adult but I can honestly say that things are better now. I don't suffer from rosy timted nostalgia. After all, if society doesn't progress, what's the point?
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Post by greenhoff74 on Feb 21, 2016 18:32:08 GMT
Skittles and Bar billiards
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Post by numpty40 on Feb 21, 2016 19:10:31 GMT
There wasn't much sense in our community.
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Post by mozzer68 on Feb 21, 2016 20:33:02 GMT
It's a tough choice. The 70s we had Bowie and punk rock Stanley's ice cream Banjo chocolate bars All chocolate bars were bigger then better summers great comedies No fuckin Simon Cowell or Paul o'Grady We had the Victoria ground You could go down the off licence to fill a pop bottle with Bass at the age of 7 Play footie till late and long gone dark I didn't have to get up at 4.30 for work
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Post by AlliG on Feb 21, 2016 21:04:33 GMT
Bad points: Shitty unreliable cars that rusted. Times were more violent, especially school and football matches. Kids could buy fireworks, which meant that October to December was loud and dangerous. Food was crap. Clothes and fashion were crap. Hair styles were crap. Keg beer ruled (Double Diamond, Watneys Red Barrel, Ansells, M&B) and it was all crap; it was the 70s that saw the massive shift to lager drinking, and who could blame us? The floating pound, the strikes, the blackouts, the oil crisis, the sugar shortage, massive inflation. Good points: Dad's Army, FA Cup finals that were a family event, Morecambe & Wise, long hot summers, playing outside with your mates all day. Stoke were a top five team for a while but were also relegated in the same decade. I think I prefer today. The hair styles might have been crap in the 1970s, but that is the last time I managed to have one! Do tend to agree. It is great not to have to spend every other Sunday cleaning the spark plugs, de-coking the engine, adjusting the brakes and all the other little jobs needed to keep a Morris Minor going. I really used to love having to use the starting handle when it was cold and wet outside! Having the dip switch as a button on the floor made dipping your headlights while trying to brake and change down an interesting challenge for those of us with just the two feet! My kids don't realise how lucky they are to just be able to open the car door, turn the key and drive off every time.
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Post by Linx on Feb 21, 2016 21:13:13 GMT
Bad points: Shitty unreliable cars that rusted. Times were more violent, especially school and football matches. Kids could buy fireworks, which meant that October to December was loud and dangerous. Food was crap. Clothes and fashion were crap. Hair styles were crap. Keg beer ruled (Double Diamond, Watneys Red Barrel, Ansells, M&B) and it was all crap; it was the 70s that saw the massive shift to lager drinking, and who could blame us? The floating pound, the strikes, the blackouts, the oil crisis, the sugar shortage, massive inflation. Good points: Dad's Army, FA Cup finals that were a family event, Morecambe & Wise, long hot summers, playing outside with your mates all day. Stoke were a top five team for a while but were also relegated in the same decade. I think I prefer today. The hair styles might have been crap in the 1970s, but that is the last time I managed to have one! Do tend to agree. It is great not to have to spend every other Sunday cleaning the spark plugs, de-coking the engine, adjusting the brakes and all the other little jobs needed to keep a Morris Minor going. I really used to love having to use the starting handle when it was cold and wet outside! Having the dip switch as a button on the floor made dipping your headlights while trying to brake and change down an interesting challenge for those of us with just the two feet! My kids don't realise how lucky they are to just be able to open the car door, turn the key and drive off every time. I remember your Moggie Minor, Alli. It was slightly less crap than Stan's Minivan.
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Post by harrysburrow on Feb 21, 2016 21:49:19 GMT
Progressive rock music - and affordable gig prices. People say that cars were less reliable in the 70s - every car I get now seems programmed to fall to bits after the 3/5 year warranty runs out? Affordable petrol. Distinct seasons. More time to do stuff. Pensions and policies that did what you signed up for. Proper sweets - bought some chocolate limes the other day that had no fucking chocolate. Proper snow. More football characters. Bigger cinemas and screens ( going to the pictures used to be an atmospheric and affordable experience). Honest, Hard work doesn't seem to be valued anymore. Christmassy Christmas. Better, cheaper beer. Better night clubs.
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Post by harryburrows on Feb 22, 2016 4:42:47 GMT
Sounds like you were too old ,too young or much too sensible Linx . Despite all of your negative points the 70s was a great decade 8 years old at the start of it; 18 at the end, harry. So, basically, I was an adolescent throughout the 70s, and it was my schooldays. I didn't experience it as an adult but I can honestly say that things are better now. I don't suffer from rosy timted nostalgia. After all, if society doesn't progress, what's the point? Mmmmmm , shame Linx , but I'm sure the 60s generation feel just the same
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Post by mumf on Feb 22, 2016 5:54:14 GMT
The 1970s .
The gap between the rich and poor wasn't as great and you could still afford to watch a game of football without the financial pain .
More community spirit , life wasn't as serious and 70's racism wasn't half as bad as 00's Terrorism .
A time when people knew how to enjoy themselves and if your dad had a car then you were rich ....
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Post by bathstoke on Feb 22, 2016 7:24:09 GMT
Hard copy porn, strewn by the side of roads. Hairy Mots!
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Post by Waggy on Feb 22, 2016 8:57:12 GMT
Hard copy porn, strewn by the side of roads. Hairy Mots! Hairy mots. I tell you mother had a hairy mot last week. The damn thing failed on windowiper blades.
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Post by dutchstokie on Feb 22, 2016 11:37:05 GMT
Being a young wipper snapper in the 70's meant going out at 7 in the morning during the school holidays, not coming back til after dark, with a welcoming hug from mum (RIP) and a glass of dandelion and burdock pop and a marmite sarnie, with not so much as a "where the hell have you been??" Playing with my first girlfriends titties was also a milestone !! She thought I was trying to tune into radio 1 the way I was 'caressing' them
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 14:05:36 GMT
I was born in 1973 but can still relate to a lot of stuff on here that was still prevalent in the early-to-mid eighties.
I have nothing but good memories of my younger years, and could list all of the things mentioned and more; even though we lived on an estate, weren't well off, and whatever money was spare, my old man pissed up the wall.
I can, and do, buy my kids everything going - but their childhood experience hasn't been as rich as mine was, in lots of ways. Material possessions aplenty, but they've grown up in a different world, and if I had to choose a childhood for them, I'd choose mine every time.
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Post by ihaveadream on Feb 23, 2016 14:36:53 GMT
1970s Advantages People walked more and relied less on cars There was virtually fill employment Kids had a lot of freedom and spent lots of time outside People used their initiative and had more common sense People had longer attention spans as no mobile phones/iphones etc and people read more & watched TV less.
1970s Disadvantages
People smoked more Employees had fewer rights No google etc to find info quickly, it was a case of looking up phone numbers in directories and ringing shops/stations etc to find out opening times/train times etc or visiting libraries Medical treatments were not so advanced, there is a higher chance of survival for many diseases now. There is more to do nowadays when the weather is bad.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Feb 23, 2016 15:16:56 GMT
1970s Advantages People walked more and relied less on cars There was virtually fill employment Kids had a lot of freedom and spent lots of time outside People used their initiative and had more common sense People had longer attention spans as no mobile phones/iphones etc and people read more & watched TV less. 1970s Disadvantages People smoked more Employees had fewer rights No google etc to find info quickly, it was a case of looking up phone numbers in directories and ringing shops/stations etc to find out opening times/train times etc or visiting libraries Medical treatments were not so advanced, there is a higher chance of survival for many diseases now. There is more to do nowadays when the weather is bad. I'd say employees had quite a few more employment rights in the 1970s compared to now.
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Post by ihaveadream on Feb 23, 2016 17:35:26 GMT
1970s Advantages People walked more and relied less on cars There was virtually fill employment Kids had a lot of freedom and spent lots of time outside People used their initiative and had more common sense People had longer attention spans as no mobile phones/iphones etc and people read more & watched TV less. 1970s Disadvantages People smoked more Employees had fewer rights No google etc to find info quickly, it was a case of looking up phone numbers in directories and ringing shops/stations etc to find out opening times/train times etc or visiting libraries Medical treatments were not so advanced, there is a higher chance of survival for many diseases now. There is more to do nowadays when the weather is bad. I'd say employees had quite a few more employment rights in the 1970s compared to now. Looking at it in terms of the right to strike you have a point,yes they did. In terms of unfair dismissal legislation etc they have more rights now. It seems to balance out overall
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Post by samba :) on Feb 23, 2016 17:41:56 GMT
70's...
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Feb 23, 2016 20:59:20 GMT
I was born in 1973 but can still relate to a lot of stuff on here that was still prevalent in the early-to-mid eighties. I have nothing but good memories of my younger years, and could list all of the things mentioned and more; even though we lived on an estate, weren't well off, and whatever money was spare, my old man pissed up the wall. I can, and do, buy my kids everything going - but their childhood experience hasn't been as rich as mine was, in lots of ways. Material possessions aplenty, but they've grown up in a different world, and if I had to choose a childhood for them, I'd choose mine every time. 100% bang on.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 21:16:26 GMT
Being a young wipper snapper in the 70's meant going out at 7 in the morning during the school holidays, not coming back til after dark, with a welcoming hug from mum (RIP) and a glass of dandelion and burdock pop and a marmite sarnie, with not so much as a "where the hell have you been??" Playing with my first girlfriends titties was also a milestone !! She thought I was trying to tune into radio 1 the way I was 'caressing' them I dated a bird and got Radio Luxembourg. Great tits they were.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2016 13:17:11 GMT
My Magnum Moustache was awesome in 1977 along with my white jacket black trousers and white shoes all on parade at The Top of the World , Stafford in a bad re-enactment of Saturday Night Fever.
I started work late 1976 so my first moped with petrol costing 50p for the whole week was a life changing event. I was a well paid apprentice on £16.50 a week which was more than enough for the match , transport , getting drunk and paying board to mum. BTW the going rate for that was half your wages so £8 for me and more for my older 2 brothers.
Wimpey burgers far superior to McDonalds crap, Chips in newspaper and cider in gallon bottles. School meals were Chips and a Cream cake both served from each corner of Bright St in Meir with a can of larger from the off licence 3 doors down making afternoon lessons hazy events to say the least.
'Budgie' Jackets were a must have with striped bright coloured socks (the colour said where you came from in the City) A "Ben Sherman" T shirt and some Tonics for trousers all very smart.
However the biggest thing I miss is the Music. we were Soul on Trent the whole City was a nightclub, Tiffany's, The Place, Top Rank, Top of the World to name just a few along with Stoke town Hall , Longton Town Hall, and the youth clubs. Music was Everywhere, the City was jumping.
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Post by Billybigbollox on Feb 24, 2016 19:43:30 GMT
White socks.
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Post by yeokel on Feb 24, 2016 23:53:37 GMT
It's a tough choice. The 70s we had Bowie and punk rock Stanley's ice cream...... Stanley's Ice Cream - What a brilliant memory. He used to come and park outside our school (Newcastle High) every lunchtime in his little van. In fact - What a great thread. Today is undoubtedly better than the seventies in many ways but this thread makes me realise what a great time most of us had. Apart from the power cuts, endless strikes, the possibility of being blown up at any time in a 'big' city, and all the other things mentioned in this thread.
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Post by NassauDave on Feb 25, 2016 2:03:56 GMT
The best thing is that I was much, much younger????
Staying out all day in the summer holidays. Jubbleys Mivvis Hubbly bubbly Aztec bars Getting served in a pub at 14 easily. Blakeys Levi's that were so thick and stiff to wear when new. Nobody had any money including me. Hence my nicking the above from time to time....;-) Ind Coope beer Outside shit houses Jeyes fluid The Dandy The Place The Roman Candle pub Cheap beer Hooliganism being absolutely rife Away games on football specials Not telling my folks that I had been to any away games.... Oxford bags
Did I mention not having any money?
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Post by Northy on Feb 25, 2016 6:30:44 GMT
Sounds like you were too old ,too young or much too sensible Linx . Despite all of your negative points the 70s was a great decade 8 years old at the start of it; 18 at the end, harry. So, basically, I was an adolescent throughout the 70s, and it was my schooldays. I didn't experience it as an adult but I can honestly say that things are better now. I don't suffer from rosy timted nostalgia. After all, if society doesn't progress, what's the point? Same age as me then Most of the things have already been said. Going out for the day exploring/playing with your mates with pop and sandwiches in a bag, 20 a side footy matches, standing at footy matches, Walking to the scrapyard at the end of Talke Pits to get wheels and axels to build go karts and then wreck them down hills. Getting a whack off 'bobby ball' for playing on building sites and dragged back home by the scruff of the neck. Watching granddad stagger home after a lunch time session.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Feb 26, 2016 12:47:52 GMT
Tough choice, let's see... 1970's / Now.
One wage could support a household with a couple of kids / Two wage earners plus overtime required.
Full Employment. Out one job in morning, new one in the afternoon / Hire and fire. No job security for first 2 years. Zero Hours Contricks
Social solidarity / Dog eat dog, devil take the hindmost, "no such thing as society" society.
Pint of Beer < 25p / God knows - can't afford.
Free education. Maintenance grants. / Potential 30 years of debt.
Affordable housing - Average house price 4xAverage Income. Rent controls and protected tenancies. Houses were to live in. / Housing market failure. Youngsters priced out of owning homes. Average house price 11xAverage Income. Ideologically inspired limits on new social housing. Poor quality private rentals. Buy to let boom fed by housing benefit. Houses seen as an "investment".
Sitting in the boozer 10 minutes before K.O. and still in time to see the lads run out at THE VICTORIA GROUND / Route march to a soulless freezer on top of a hill.
Vinyl / Compressed shit.
Children had a real childhood and freedom to develop. / Kids are supervised to fuck with little real freedom. Endless homework and constant testing now required to produce the wage slaves of tomorrow. Poor buggers. Children are just another market to be exploited by capitalism.
Easily treatable STD's / HIV, Aids, Multiple drug resistant shit and God knows what else.
Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam quagmire* - one of the best foreign policy decisions of the last century. / Tony Blair was led by the nose into the Iraq quagmire - one of the worst foreign policy decisions ever, and we are still paying for it.
Idealism and the confidence of a young baby boom generation / Cynicism and selfishness of an ageing baby boom generation.
Modernism / The cretinism of Post-Modernism.
Not so obvious that our species was destroying the environment / Toss up whether our species destroys itself or the planet first.
A quality Rock Festival at Leycett / A shitty Pop Festival at Betley
Only 3 TV channels but plenty of quality broadcasting. eg Fawlty Towers, World at War(ITV produced), Civilisation, Beckett and Pinter on prime time. / 550 channels of brain rotting, dumbed down and largely recycled dreck. The Kardashians, whatever that is.
The worst experience you might have with religious fanatics was accidentally wandering into a meeting of the Moonies and coming out married. / Death cult lunatics alienated from life, hijacking a religion to use atrocity in order to start WW3 and bring about the apocalypse.
And finally,
Chicken Shack live at the George Hotel on a Sunday night / The X-Factor
Tough? Really? I'd much prefer the '60's but I'd settle for the very worst time in the '70s (probably January '76 for most of us ). I'd even buy 20 copies of "Frampton Comes Alive" if that would help!
*Actually this was the late '60s but what the hell.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 16:24:01 GMT
Tough choice, let's see... 1970's / Now.
One wage could support a household with a couple of kids / Two wage earners plus overtime required.
Full Employment. Out one job in morning, new one in the afternoon / Hire and fire. No job security for first 2 years. Zero Hours Contricks
Social solidarity / Dog eat dog, devil take the hindmost, "no such thing as society" society.
Pint of Beer < 25p / God knows - can't afford.
Free education. Maintenance grants. / Potential 30 years of debt.
Affordable housing - Average house price 4xAverage Income. Rent controls and protected tenancies. Houses were to live in. / Housing market failure. Youngsters priced out of owning homes. Average house price 11xAverage Income. Ideologically inspired limits on new social housing. Poor quality private rentals. Buy to let boom fed by housing benefit. Houses seen as an "investment".
Sitting in the boozer 10 minutes before K.O. and still in time to see the lads run out at THE VICTORIA GROUND / Route march to a soulless freezer on top of a hill.
Vinyl / Compressed shit.
Children had a real childhood and freedom to develop. / Kids are supervised to fuck with little real freedom. Endless homework and constant testing now required to produce the wage slaves of tomorrow. Poor buggers. Children are just another market to be exploited by capitalism.
Easily treatable STD's / HIV, Aids, Multiple drug resistant shit and God knows what else.
Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam quagmire* - one of the best foreign policy decisions of the last century. / Tony Blair was led by the nose into the Iraq quagmire - one of the worst foreign policy decisions ever, and we are still paying for it.
Idealism and the confidence of a young baby boom generation / Cynicism and selfishness of an ageing baby boom generation.
Modernism / The cretinism of Post-Modernism.
Not so obvious that our species was destroying the environment / Toss up whether our species destroys itself or the planet first.
A quality Rock Festival at Leycett / A shitty Pop Festival at Betley
Only 3 TV channels but plenty of quality broadcasting. eg Fawlty Towers, World at War(ITV produced), Civilisation, Beckett and Pinter on prime time. / 550 channels of brain rotting, dumbed down and largely recycled dreck. The Kardashians, whatever that is.
The worst experience you might have with religious fanatics was accidentally wandering into a meeting of the Moonies and coming out married. / Death cult lunatics alienated from life, hijacking a religion to use atrocity in order to start WW3 and bring about the apocalypse.
And finally,
Chicken Shack live at the George Hotel on a Sunday night / The X-Factor
Tough? Really? I'd much prefer the '60's but I'd settle for the very worst time in the '70s (probably January '76 for most of us ). I'd even buy 20 copies of "Frampton Comes Alive" if that would help!
*Actually this was the late '60s but what the hell.
One copy of " Frampton Comes Alive " was enough for anybody
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Post by partickpotter on Feb 26, 2016 18:37:16 GMT
The 70s - no question.
Back then I could (and did) eat and eat and eat and stay as thin as a stick. Now, I only have to look at a bacon buttie and I can feel the waistband of my trousers getting tighter.
Oh - and the seventies was the decade that saw Junior Murvin release Police and Thieves. No brainer really.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Feb 26, 2016 19:04:34 GMT
Tough choice, let's see... 1970's / Now.
One wage could support a household with a couple of kids / Two wage earners plus overtime required.
Full Employment. Out one job in morning, new one in the afternoon / Hire and fire. No job security for first 2 years. Zero Hours Contricks
Social solidarity / Dog eat dog, devil take the hindmost, "no such thing as society" society.
Pint of Beer < 25p / God knows - can't afford.
Free education. Maintenance grants. / Potential 30 years of debt.
Affordable housing - Average house price 4xAverage Income. Rent controls and protected tenancies. Houses were to live in. / Housing market failure. Youngsters priced out of owning homes. Average house price 11xAverage Income. Ideologically inspired limits on new social housing. Poor quality private rentals. Buy to let boom fed by housing benefit. Houses seen as an "investment".
Sitting in the boozer 10 minutes before K.O. and still in time to see the lads run out at THE VICTORIA GROUND / Route march to a soulless freezer on top of a hill.
Vinyl / Compressed shit.
Children had a real childhood and freedom to develop. / Kids are supervised to fuck with little real freedom. Endless homework and constant testing now required to produce the wage slaves of tomorrow. Poor buggers. Children are just another market to be exploited by capitalism.
Easily treatable STD's / HIV, Aids, Multiple drug resistant shit and God knows what else.
Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam quagmire* - one of the best foreign policy decisions of the last century. / Tony Blair was led by the nose into the Iraq quagmire - one of the worst foreign policy decisions ever, and we are still paying for it.
Idealism and the confidence of a young baby boom generation / Cynicism and selfishness of an ageing baby boom generation.
Modernism / The cretinism of Post-Modernism.
Not so obvious that our species was destroying the environment / Toss up whether our species destroys itself or the planet first.
A quality Rock Festival at Leycett / A shitty Pop Festival at Betley
Only 3 TV channels but plenty of quality broadcasting. eg Fawlty Towers, World at War(ITV produced), Civilisation, Beckett and Pinter on prime time. / 550 channels of brain rotting, dumbed down and largely recycled dreck. The Kardashians, whatever that is.
The worst experience you might have with religious fanatics was accidentally wandering into a meeting of the Moonies and coming out married. / Death cult lunatics alienated from life, hijacking a religion to use atrocity in order to start WW3 and bring about the apocalypse.
And finally,
Chicken Shack live at the George Hotel on a Sunday night / The X-Factor
Tough? Really? I'd much prefer the '60's but I'd settle for the very worst time in the '70s (probably January '76 for most of us ). I'd even buy 20 copies of "Frampton Comes Alive" if that would help!
*Actually this was the late '60s but what the hell.
One copy of " Frampton Comes Alive " was enough for anybody One copy was one too many really. I could get a nice blaze going with 20 mind!
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