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what are you listening to?
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When music, nostalgia, reminiscences and film-remakes conspire to evoke a renewed interest in music.
I used to love watching the journalist Brian Walden grill his guests on 'Weekend World' on a Sunday afternoon on ITV back in the 70's. His guests, including Margaret Thatcher, squirmed under his barrage of intimidating, unrestrained and insightful questioning. Thatcher was the expert of the 'non-denial denial', a strategy of squirreling your way out of a corner when questioned, invented by Nixon, then later adopted and finessed by Thatcher. (Westland helicopter scandal involving Mark Thatcher etc)
As a precocious pre-teen it used to baffle my parents why I'd want to watch such heavy programs on a Sunday afternoon rather than being outside playing football or setting things on fire, but it was to act as a pre-cursor to my disjointed and ultimately futile ambitions to become a journalist/writer.
The theme song to this program was the last 40-50 seconds of 'Nantucket Sleighride' by Mountain. It was a TV theme tune like no ther back then and I used to crank up the volume on our TV much to the chagrin of my mother.
Here's one of the few saved editions of Weekend World on youtube, including the theme tune and a synopsis of Thatcher's then policy on Northern Ireland and 'The troubles' which affected us all in NI and the UK at the time. For many reasons I had utter contempt for Thatcher during her tenure as PM but also a degree of admiration for her handling of the Falklands crisis. She didn't deserve a state funeral in my view however.
I was overjoyed therefore when the trailer for 'Brian and Maggie', a Channel 4 dramatisation of Brian Walden's final interview with Thatcher popped up in my suggested feed! What a treat this will be. Steve Coogan is brilliant and has played Tony Wilson and more controversially, Jimi Savile to perfection imo. This will mean little to nothing to my Amurrcun friends here but will be more significant to any Brits here.
Can't wait to watch it....
and the actual interview from back in the day
Nantucket Sleighride
I used to love watching the journalist Brian Walden grill his guests on 'Weekend World' on a Sunday afternoon on ITV back in the 70's. His guests, including Margaret Thatcher, squirmed under his barrage of intimidating, unrestrained and insightful questioning. Thatcher was the expert of the 'non-denial denial', a strategy of squirreling your way out of a corner when questioned, invented by Nixon, then later adopted and finessed by Thatcher. (Westland helicopter scandal involving Mark Thatcher etc)
As a precocious pre-teen it used to baffle my parents why I'd want to watch such heavy programs on a Sunday afternoon rather than being outside playing football or setting things on fire, but it was to act as a pre-cursor to my disjointed and ultimately futile ambitions to become a journalist/writer.
The theme song to this program was the last 40-50 seconds of 'Nantucket Sleighride' by Mountain. It was a TV theme tune like no ther back then and I used to crank up the volume on our TV much to the chagrin of my mother.
Here's one of the few saved editions of Weekend World on youtube, including the theme tune and a synopsis of Thatcher's then policy on Northern Ireland and 'The troubles' which affected us all in NI and the UK at the time. For many reasons I had utter contempt for Thatcher during her tenure as PM but also a degree of admiration for her handling of the Falklands crisis. She didn't deserve a state funeral in my view however.
I was overjoyed therefore when the trailer for 'Brian and Maggie', a Channel 4 dramatisation of Brian Walden's final interview with Thatcher popped up in my suggested feed! What a treat this will be. Steve Coogan is brilliant and has played Tony Wilson and more controversially, Jimi Savile to perfection imo. This will mean little to nothing to my Amurrcun friends here but will be more significant to any Brits here.
Can't wait to watch it....
and the actual interview from back in the day
Nantucket Sleighride
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Finally... i Now have a full set of Original CD Releases for the Tracklists of two of the most formative Soundtracks of my Boyhood.
Me and My Mom listened to these Cassettes often whenever we went about Town.
the COCOA PUFFS was a Mail-in Premium that she ordered... and the CHRYSLER DEMO was included with the DODGE CARAVAN my folks bought in the late-80's.
I Must've been around 7~8 Years old at the time...
