#1 - Twiggy had a pop career! Well, it was news to me anyway. Note how the Twigster cleverly utilises the skills she picked up sashaying along the catwalk in her modelling career as she, erm, sashays down the Top of the Pops set mocked-up to look like a catwalk, at the start of the first clip. This discotastic track was produced by David Essex, apparently. Owsaboutthatthen guys and gals? Rattle-rattle-jewellery-jewellery...
There are times when I just can’t stand the thought of another post about politics, especially in these filthy, depressing times. So here’s a list that showed up in one of John Sandford’s Prey Series Lucas Davenport novels. Sandford isn’t his real name, it is John Camp, and I first met him on the misc.writing, [...]
Every year on Christmas Day night when the adverts for holidays came on the tv, I'd beg my parents to take our holiday in Butlins. The rides, the shows, the crazy golf - it looked like so much fun. But they would never take me, instead we spent the same last week of May at Aunty Lil's house in Weymouth. I never grew out of the desire to go to Butlins. By the time I'd grown too old to be excited by...
EXPECT knicker and tissue sales to go through the roof next summer when the latest Once In A Lifetime tour drops by with a plethors of '70s heartthrobs on board.
Got this little gem via email the other day! Once In A LifeTime featuring The Osmonds, David Essex and more! TONY DENTON PROMOTIONS PRESENTS: 'ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOUR 2010' THE OSMONDS DAVID ESSEX LEO SAYER LES MCKEOWN'S LEGENDARY BAY CITY ROLLERS Tony Denton Promotions is synonymous with tours that are unique – the Once In A LifeTime brand continues with the announcement of the 2010 Once In...
I have been thinking a bit, following a conversation that sparked off here the other week, about the culture of celebrity. People can cultivate or avoid celebrity to some extent, but as often as not celebrities are "made" by forces outside themselves. Part of the difficulty with it for the person who becomes a celebrity is how to continue doing what they are good at while not encouraging...
Received today, and over the weekend. Admittedly free with the Guardian and Observer. The Jackie is a Valentine's Day Special. It contains a poster of David Essex. Roy of the Rovers gets shot. I have not read the Beano yet...
Hello, Yesterday when Ed went to buy his weekend newspaper he saw that the Guardian supplements included a copy of the origional Jackie Comic - Valentine edition from February 15th 1975!!!!!!!! So he had to get it knowing that was what I read in those days and YES I HAD THIS PICTURE OF DAVID ESSEX ON MY WALL!!!!!!! Notice the comic cost just 5p haha!! Now I was totally in love with Donny..........and...
"Oh, to be in England..." Longtime readers will no doubt recall my anglophile status. Although I've lived all my life here in Kentucky (well, three years across the river in Ohio but that's another story), I was reading LOOK-IN in the 1970's whilst watching TV britcoms such as NO, HONESTLY (great theme song by James Coburn's then-girlfriend Lyndsey dePaul) and enjoying old Bob Monkhouse and...
10: David Essex - Rock On: From movie actor topop star, a watered-down glam-rocker with great production. 9: The First Class - Beach Baby: Studio singers John Carter and Tony Burrows mine gold a la the Beach Boys. 8: Terry...
I’D never do anything I didn’t feel passionately about and couldn’t put my heart and soul into. You have to be passionate, in the rehearsal room you’re the driving force.”
Yesterday I found myself walking along the beach at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. I'd only been here once before, an impulsive turn off the M5 some years ago, just to see what it was like. It was winter, raining, and I got back on the motorway very quickly. On that first visit I didn't notice that you can see Cardiff very clearly on the horizon, with the islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm imbetween....
Just back from seeing a touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. A bizarre enough title in itself - and in this day and age a surprisingly odd choice of stage musical. After all, here is a car with a huge V12, high Co2, uncatalysed engine which doesn’t just pollute the road, but also the seas and the skies. Yet every time that Chitty spreads its wings or inflates its hover skirt, there...
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