I've just listened to Radio 2 for the first time in ages. As I scanned the Radio Times for what Radio 3 was offering my eye was caught by Radio 2 bringing Top of the Pops for this week in 1967 with Tony Blackburn. It was such a big year that I couldn't resist. I started it off as a Sixth Former in London and ended up as an undergraduate in far-away Durham. That was where my musical tastes turned "square", so I was revisiting a pre-classical version of me, finding that 44 years later I could still join in verbatim in dodgy falsetto with most of the hits of the day: Don't Walk Away Renee - Four Topps, Something's Got a Hold of my Heart - Gene Pitney and other classics. OK, Val Doonican and Cliff Richard were in there but it seemed like a great chart list to me. The Number One, the Beatles' Hello, Goodbye, was quite fitting since this was an obvious leaving-home turning-point for me - not only in my life but it was the year when pop music took flight and turned psychedelic with Sergeant Pepper and the Summer of Love.
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I caught a Tony Blackburn programme on R2 a year or so ago where he played the top 100 discs from the 1960's. I was truly surprised at the large number I could still remember, words and music, close on 50 years later. I was 13 in 1967 and it was a wonderful time to be a teenager. I lost all interest in pop music just 3 years later.Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink -
BBC4 have been showing re-runs of TOTP from 1976 recently, including the Christmas specials.They're a great nostalgia trip- I was 14 that year, and madly in love with Agnetha Falkstog- (the blonde one out of ABBAOriginally posted by gurnemanz View Post
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Although I was already much more into classical music at that time, I used to watch TOTP, and of course the songs were played at parties. It's like a journey back to my youth watching it again. I just wish I could do it for real.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Somehow I'd always imagined you to be a bit older than me (born 1945), Mr PeeOriginally posted by Mr Pee View PostBBC4 have been showing re-runs of TOTP from 1976 recently, including the Christmas specials.They're a great nostalgia trip- I was 14 that year, and madly in love with Agnetha Falkstog- (the blonde one out of ABBA).
Although I was already much more into classical music at that time, I used to watch TOTP, and of course the songs were played at parties. It's like a journey back to my youth watching it again. I just wish I could do it for real.
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Five , four , three, radio two, radio one, go
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I just look at those four numbers and instantaneously have ideas and feelings. They are conceptual. It wouldn't be easy to describe them. They do though feel almost tangible. It was a distinctive year in an era of years with distinctive traits.
You couldn't say the same about 1987 or 1997 or 2007. I am not quite sure when it was that we moved into a cycle of the mundane. 1972? 1978? 1984? Charitably, I will opt for the latter or thereabouts. Sometime in the mid or late 1980s.Comment
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Getting back to Radio 3, this was the year of Walton's opera, The Bear.Comment
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I thought the thread was about a year. My mistake.Comment
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1966 - FootballOriginally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
1967 - Love
1968 - Protest
1969 - Moon
1970 - It's all overComment
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Surely they thought it was all over in 1966 - as indeed it was very shortly thereafter!Comment
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LOVE? ... if one means LUST, there was nothing like that (at least that I ever encountered) in my teenage years in 1967 Glasgow. Apparently unlike today, the ladies would have none of it, and we gents had our tiny little minds on much more healthy pursuits, believe me.
1967 was THE football year when 11 Scottish footballers (Glaswegian, to all intents and purposes), astonished the sporting world and beyond (and probably themselves) by becoming the very first Northern European team to win the European Cup. An achievement that seems all the more astonishing as the years roll by. Even Bannockburn is challenged for top historic achievement here ...
English, Germans, French, Dutch ... HUH! ... who are these people? ... and 1966 ... what of any world-shattering importance happened then? ... do some of you still celebrate the Battle of Hastings?
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Crikey, mangerton, even I forgot that was the very year we became unofficial (as distinct from dodgy 'official') World Champions as well ...
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1971 DecimalizationOriginally posted by Wallace View Post
1972 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool
1973 Power Cuts
1974 Harrison Birtwistle becomes composer-in-residence to the Southern Arts Association
1975 It is nowComment
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1976 Denis Howell appointed Minister for DroughtComment
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