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Turn Up the Volume!
Posted on February 6, 2012 | No CommentsShare! TweetThe crowd is verging on riotious, you’re pumped and the heat from the on-stage pyrotechnics almost give you third degree burns. You prepare yourself for an invasion of the...Continue Reading...
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TV We’ve Forgotten – Alias Smith and Jones
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsShare! TweetAnyone who recalls the names Hannibal Heyes and Jedediah ‘Kid’ Curry are most likely children of the 70s. Portrayed as the two most successful outlaws in the history of...Continue Reading...
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Nerds We’ve Loved
Posted on January 28, 2012 | No CommentsShare! TweetAs much as we probably all admit to being way too cool to ever be considered one – we all have a soft side for them. But who are...Continue Reading...
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Supergroups of the 70s
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsShare! TweetThe ‘Supergroups’ of the 70’s – just who were the best, what legacy’s did they leave their fans – and what did their music mean to you? Try to...Continue Reading...
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Oswald ‘not’ so lucky!
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 2 CommentsShare! TweetBefore he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney drew cartoons of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Universal Pictures and Charles Mintz. And while Mickey (and friends) went onto bigger, better...Continue Reading...
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80s New Wave
Posted on January 22, 2012 | 2 CommentsShare! TweetI’m the first to admit that I wasn’t exactly the New Wave kinda guy back in the 80s, but I’ll also be the first to admit that bands like...Continue Reading...
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Classic TV – The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
Posted on January 21, 2012 | No CommentsShare! TweetIt won 2 Golden Globes and the hearts of millions. It helped re-launch a television career for the son of a sales clerk and a department store owner. The...Continue Reading...
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The Vinyl Revival
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsShare! TweetIf you are to believe the figures, vinyl records are being sold in greater numbers than CDs at the present time – putting the so-called defunct technology at the...Continue Reading...
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Women Don’t Understand Air Guitar
Posted on September 27, 2011 | 1 CommentShare! TweetMen are a misunderstood lot. Which is probably for the best. Sure, we bleat about how girls insist on going to the bathroom in pairs, that 1000 shoes are...Continue Reading...
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Pop Culture’s Animal Legends
Posted on September 15, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetRemember Disney’s Old Yeller? How About Babe, Lassie or Black Beauty? Maybe King Kong or even CJ the Orangutan. No prizes for guessing what all of the above have...Continue Reading...
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Useless Music Trivia Which Will Impress!
Posted on September 1, 2011 | 1 CommentShare! TweetSimple things (as they say) amuse simple minds . . . and so I’m not ashamed to admit that completely useless trivia has been filling the cavenous recesses of...Continue Reading...
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Charlie Chaplin’s mystery Time Traveller
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetCharlie Chaplin Time Travellers Clip Click Here Has anyone seen this mysterious clip of a so-called ‘time traveller’ in one of Charlile Chaplin’s early films? To date there’s been...Continue Reading...
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Screensavers – the new Pop Culture Cult
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetA long, long time ago in a galaxy not too far away screensavers were used to prevent so-called screen burn in an effort to avoid pixel damage on CRT...Continue Reading...
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What Defines the 70s?
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 2 CommentsShare! TweetWhen I think of what symbolises the 70′s for me, two entirely different subcultures come to mind. The first is the early 70s – which was still a melting...Continue Reading...
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The Greatest Songs of the Disco Era
Posted on July 20, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetThe halycon days of disco were undoubtedly those years between 1976 and 1980 – when dance floors were littered with would-be Travolta’s and dancing diva’s. It was when record...Continue Reading...
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Star Trek
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsShare! Tweet“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations —...Continue Reading...
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TV We Loved – Gidget
Posted on July 10, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetFor 15½ years my life was a complete and total ick. But then on the 23rd of June two things happened. I fell in love with two things. Jeff,...Continue Reading...
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Schlock We Loved – Lost In Space!
Posted on July 7, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetIt gave the impression of having a limited budget, and it showed. The props, makeup, scripts and costumes were almost comedic. Yet Lost In Space continues to enjoy re-run...Continue Reading...
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Celebrities We Loved – Wolfman Jack
Posted on July 6, 2011 | No CommentsShare! TweetHe appeared in 19 movies and television shows, hosted his own weekly syndicated program, was an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church, inducted into the Radio Hall of...Continue Reading...
World’s Dumbest Mistakes
Posted on July 15, 2011 | No Comments
Share! TweetWe’ve all made mistakes … but probably not big mistakes like making snot beer, saying no to The Beatles, or turning down the patent for the telephone. There’s bound... Continue Reading...
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