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John Peel Wrote the liner notes for the first Status Quo live EP.
"It is 1968 or 1969, some year like that, and Gaffer Peel is compere at a rock festival in Nottingham. The organizers expected a crowd of 40.000, got 400, and a poor time is being had by all. Band after band has numbered us with meaningful stuff about the revolution (whatever happened to it anyway?), or bored us with their suite base on 'Alice Through The Looking Glass'. I'm supposed to dart between the two stages to announce each band but I'm busy trying to fascinate a young woman (unsuccessfully, I'm afraid) and this shower get on stage unannounced. "Ello", the below, stirring the stoned handful out of their torpor, 'you're not gonna like us at all, we make hit singles and we're very loud'. They didn't, they do and they are. At the time I was outraged. Who, I asked myself, are these outrageously vulgar yobboes? We wanted beauty and truth, not rowdiness; certain substances, not brown ale. Status Quo played, unabashed and basic, and since then, secretly at first because, I mean, Quo weren't, as we said then, where it was at, I've been a believer. Amazing to think that when they first annoying the neighbours from scout halls and cricket pavilions, John Kennedy was still alive, only a fistful of daft Scousers and Hamburgers had heard of the Beatles, and I was selling crop insurance in West Texas. Even more amazing in this is - thirteen years on, their music is so fresh and vital that wherever you do a disco you know it's going to be a either 'Brown Sugar' or a Quo record that finally get's them moving. You know too, that there's always going to be a row of loonies - Maybe including you - who'll get down into that celebrated Quo boogie stance and churn to and fro like creatures possessed. Status Quo are good lads, they make exciting and unpretentious records, they make me feel positively carefree, have saved many a potentially disastrous gig for me, and if they rock on for another thirteen years - well that's just fine by me.."
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Marc Bolan once shared a flat with James Bolam and adopted an altered version of Bolam's surname as his stage name.
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Popcorn was composed in 1969!
I thought it was from the 80s.
I thought it was from the 80s.
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Ali G's "real name" is Alistair Graham.
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Cliff's fifth single was Living Doll, and it destroyed his Mean, moody and Rock n'Roll reputation, but his third single was Livin' Lovin' Doll
Bet that confused them at the record shops.
Bet that confused them at the record shops.
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The fax machine was invented before the death of the Duke of Wellington, meaning that, it would have been perfectly possible for him to have sent a fax at some point in his life.
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I've never seen a fax machine in use. They're like a thing of mysterious and magical wonder to me.
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I have a fax machine in my spare room.
I don't think it works.
I don't think it works.
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I used to send and receive faxes from my computer in 1995, with my brand new 28.8k Fax Modem.
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According to Wikipedia, "Whigfield is an Italian dance act fronted by Sannie Charlotte Carlson" - but I thought SHE was Whigfield! Not some band's name with her as the lead singer. I'm sure back in 1994 it was she herself who was Whigfield!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigfield
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The mysterious steps in Sheffield that so perturb Fangy...
...used to be the back steps of a toll house.
And the gap in the wall where the toll path used to be is still there, all these thousands of years later.
...used to be the back steps of a toll house.
And the gap in the wall where the toll path used to be is still there, all these thousands of years later.
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I bet people used to try and use those steps to sneak past the toll chain.
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It is weird because the toll path and the steps lead to exactly the same spot.
Also, a bit further down the road is another path that leads to the exact same place as the toll path does.
Also, a bit further down the road is another path that leads to the exact same place as the toll path does.
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