by Graeme Cumming | Dec 7, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
Some time back, I wrote about the first time I saw Thin Lizzy when the original headliners were supposed to be Ultravox. It was a year later, 1982, before I finally got to see the band I was supposed to. In 1981, their biggest hit, Vienna, was cheated of a number one...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 30, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
There was a time when children were put to work at a very young age, often doing jobs adults couldn’t, like going up chimneys to sweep them. The nature of the work alone was cruel, and the pittance paid akin to slave labour. Those days, of course, are long gone,...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 8, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia |
My mum had a thing about Roger Moore – still does – and her enthusiasm rubbed off on me (though in a different way). I’ve talked elsewhere about The Persuaders!, and it’ll come as little surprise to regular readers that he was my favourite Bond. He’s done other...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 1, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
A few weeks ago, I wrote about gigs at Loughborough Students Union, but one act in particular warrants more background. Some of the singers and bands I’ve written about have been very high profile – The Rolling Stones, Queen, The Police – and others less so. Tom...
by Graeme Cumming | Oct 20, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
It probably won’t surprise you to learn I spent a lot of time watching TV as a child. Since it was the only way to keep me quiet, the telly became a surrogate babysitter for me. Bearing in mind that channels in the 1960s didn’t generally start transmitting until...
by Graeme Cumming | Sep 16, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
If you’re a regular concert-goer these days, the chances are you attend mainly large venues – arenas and football stadiums. For lesser artists – usually those who had their heyday twenty to forty years ago – you might catch them at concert halls. A place you almost...
