stock cars on wed nights ,speedway sun afternoons , roller disco on the pier sat afternoons ...................
Now you're talking! Whatever happened to cheesecloth shirts? I used to buy loons from ads in back of Melody Maker. You could only wear them once, as when you washed them, they shrunk to nut-threatening proportions. Saw David Beckham in an ad last night wearing a green velvet jacket just like mine...
Velvet strides were a step too far... The Northern lads at college used to slip on their Oxford bags on a Friday and head off to Wigan...
Mods and rockers, bell bottoms, Vespa's, men's stacked L R Davis boots, The Who, The Small Faces, (live at Stratford town hall) Rolling Stones live at Romford, The Blue Beat record label (my dad banned me from playing any of them due to naughty names!), Purple hearts and black bombers, record shops with sound booths, lots of motown music. Can remember all this but sometimes can't remember what I did last week!!
Surfing on Bude beach. buying my first bay. going to Malvern winter gardens to see the punk bands. meeting Lou. petrol prices. driving test. Slade. power cuts. records. Sweet ballroom blitz. Glam rock. Bowie, T rex. space race, Star wars. Elvis died. getting peed with Steve Harley in Hendon. high button waistbands, Platform shoes. My mate Mac. Bay city rollers. chopper bikes, curly wurlys..... Man utd - losing virginity. Girls, teachers, Labour party, Ted Heath and his boat, cutbacks, Harold wilson, James callaghan, Michael Foot. Maggie....
Indoor league from Yorkshire TV hosted by Fred Trueman , ey up, skittles and arm wrestling ! Quality telly