Tag Archive | 1970
Video Saturday – T Rex
“Describe to me the flavour of being a teenager in the early 1970′s…” Our parents had grown up and lived through austerity Our parents had fought a war, been conscripted into armed forces, some of them had died Our parents knew no better, tried to enforce those same principles We were having nothing to do [...]
Video Saturday – The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones just get better with age – and this video is 18 years old. The song sits firmly in the slot in my brain that has the cardboard label “1972 holiday to France” still tied ever so loosely to its drawer handle, I hear this song and I’m 15 again, flared patchwork jeans, [...]
The story of my record collection
This story has been told before, elsewhere in the jerrychicken life story, but prompted by speak of music and suchlike I have decided that I need to tell it again, its cathartic you see, and one day I shall feel at ease and I will speak no more of my excellent former record collection. In [...]
There ain’t no coupe de ville hiding at the bottom of a crackerjack box
Wonderful Jim Steinman lyrics today with a beautifully camp performance from Meatloaf in the original series of 1977 videos from his “Bat Out of Hell” album. The summer of 77 is when I was moved to our Newcastle office, a two hour drive from Leeds every Monday morning, a week in contractors digs and then [...]
School disco, part one…
Following on from the loon pants story, the school disco story. I went to an all boys grammar school, 1968-73. It was run in “traditional” stylee (think Tom Browns Schooldays, victorian principles, frequent beatings, cold showers, that sort of thing), but in 1972 something unthinkable happened – the school was amalgamated with the girls grammar [...]
Crazy like a loon
I was reminded today of an extraordinary pair of trousers that I once owned and the extraordinary way in which I came to own them. Loon pants were a 1972 invention, we had already seen flares and I owned a couple of pairs of Wrangler “Blue Bell” bell bottomed flares including the ones made entirely [...]
