Now you know, I had a ten page reply to post tomorrow and then I thought no – better to post a tribute instead to different ladies in my current blogging life. To the lady who just wrote me four new messages, bless you – Detroit’s best:
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Sure Bonny Tyler won’t disgrace us but I wonder how one of these would have fared:
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1990 – the Reunification of Germany,, Desert Shield, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Nelson Mandela released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigning. Rap was big: … and was mixed in with dance:
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Well she’s better than a lot of the other rubbish Britain has put forward, she’s a proper singer and the song is … OK. Pity they couldn’t get a bit of the wow factor in there in the backing band – session musos are Ok but this needed an edge, a sort of in-yer-face element. [...]
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Came up in conversation the other day, do you remember Sounds Incorporated, well I had fond memories of seeing them live at the Enfield Assembly Rooms with Johnny Kidd and the Pirates complete with sword throwing. Sounds Inc were the favored backing group for many touring American stars inc Belinda Lee and Little Richard amongst [...]
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Feast of music today from three of us. I’ll open. The man who posted this on youtube also did so for his parents. Richard Tauber was for my earthly father. This also is for him, entreating a Heavenly Father: Surfeit of fathers? I had a stepfather too. Think my e.f. liked this but it [...]
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Some might recall this: Betty Boo was a hot female pop star at the turn of the 1990s in the U.K. Her debut album, Boomania, went platinum, and she won the 1991 Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act. But things took a turn for the worse while on tour in Australia the following year [...]
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Master of the household did you say? Close enough for govt. work, I suppose.
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Generally dislike these 20 year after the event geriatric turns and live always loses some of the finesse but the energy in this clip is amazing and those Glaswegians certainly know how to enjoy themselves. For any Boomers who crossed the line to Gen X, then this is for you: And maybe this:
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Fight scenes, interviews themselves, the romance with Diana Rigg but not the others – they were quite good. The hairstyle and clothing was awful, the delivery wooden half the time but not the other half. Why was his mind all over the place, why did he provoke that way? Even after that, Diana Rigg said [...]
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This is my third and final on Maggie. Nowhere are there stronger feelings than in Liverpool. Where the Liverpudlians were wrong:
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Welcome to the new tax year. Billie Holiday was over-rated. Here’s a different drug addict: Anita O’Day. A gorgeous tune to start with.
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In twenty years this will probably be against the law:
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