I know this is not related to ra,but i felt with all this bad weather we could do with some light relief.. So here goes. Yesterday day my daughter saw something about some bands getting together for a tour of 90's music and yes it did get us thinking. I will do three catorgories for you all.. 1,70's music and tv programmes from then ,, 2, 80's music and tv programmes and 3, 90's music and tv programmes for our younger members. This will help those of you who have fibro and hopefully cheer you all up in the awful weather we are having. So my friends and fellow sufferers it is over to you..........
What can you remember from the past.......: I know this... - NRAS
What can you remember from the past.......
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Used to love 'The Young Ones' on telly. Roared my socks off back then - '80s I think. But watching old episodes more recently the humour was lost on me - I guess you had to be there! Some music though, the memories it brings back & the atmosphere too - Fleetwood Mack comes to mind. I used to have a boyfriend who was in a local band, they may not have been very good but in the 70s there was such freedom for young people, we'd all get together, 100s of us, and de-camp to a hill or a field for an impromptu festival .... great memories. I was at Windsor Free Festival in the mid 70s too - the one the cops broke up in Windsor Great Park. Was anyone else on here there?
I bet you've organised some brilliant get-togethers in your time Sylvi - great idea this.
Luce x
sylvi• in reply to
Not really luce, i was a disco girl,but i liked a lot of music from bee gees to hawkwind,philly to rock depending where i was, but the fave for was from the 70's and it was hot chocolate boy was errol brown hot!!!! I have seen him live and he could give you an orgasm just watching him on stage............. xxxx
cathie• in reply to
I was at a Windsor free festival but it was about 1967. I bought some cheap material and made my own kaftan for about 10p in today's money
glam rock sweet.. gay rock queen 70s al;ways good for a laugh im jsut back from a hosp appointment and its snowing again..... aagh
sylvi• in reply to
It isn't here yet summer. Sweet how i remember them and slade can't not include them now can we.xx
now slade not glam or gay but good.
then there is acdc. black sabbath, rainbow, im a secret rock chic
sylvi• in reply to
I've started something here haven't i. Don't forget tubular bells and kraftwerk...... dr hook with sylvia's mother......
my friend wanted their record. her mum went into woolies and said "have you got that record, when you've had enough of me body?" she was surprised hen everyone laughed. 
sandra.
now slade not glam or gay but good.
then there is acdc. black sabbath, rainbow, im a secret rock chic
dire straits.. lol x
Music from the 70's = Move, Sweet, Manfred Mann, Marc Bolan, Motown, Walker Brothers. That Scottish Boy Band who used to wear tartan trousers, the music is ringing in my ears but not the name of the group!
TV from the 70's = Generation Game, Sunday Night at the London Palledium, The Brothers, Liver Birds, The Good Life, Take your Pick (although could be late 60's). Crossroads.
Music from the 80's = Abba, Take That,
TV from the 80's - Take the High Road, Little House on the Prairie, Eastenders.
Music fro the 90's = Take That, Robbie Williams,
TV from the 90's = Neighbours, Home & Away.
Now a quest for you Sylvi and others of our age:
60's Music, Matt Monroe, Natt King Cole, Andy Williams, Herb Albert, Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, Beatles, Stones, Rod Stewart, Batchelors,
60's TV, Coronation Street, Take your pick, Ready Steady Go, Top of the Pops, Black & White Minstral Show. TV's version of watch with mother (instead of listen as per radio), Woodentops, Twizzle, Andy Pandy, Tales of the Riverbank, cannot remember the last one.
Blimey you have set me down memory lane this afternoon. xx
sylvi• in reply to
I knew i had started something. We went out for a meal last night and we kept bringing different groups singers and tv programmes the whole meal. Muffin the mule god how i remember that. I think you are all going to get annoyed with me by the time this has run its course because there will be something and you can't remember what it was.. Ha ha ha ha....xxx
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Just remembered the Scottish Group - Bay City Rollers! Yes you will have caused a laugh by the end of this, at least it's taken our minds of ourselves for a while. xxx
shirlthegirl• in reply to
Yes me to Georje, My x boyfriend had all the gear lol, and i can't forget David cassidy , and the Osmonds, I am feeling really old now, But what good times they were 
xx
hamble99b• in reply to
right here with you George!
don't forget Rag tag & bobtail, Torchy, four feather falls and supercar!
val doonican, the rolf harris show, andy williams, bootsie & snudge, eric & ernie.
sandra.
Good if i have cheered just one person up i have done my job. We get enough grief with this disease that i thought it was time for something lighthearted.xxx
lol i with georje i loves the bay city roller,then abba and i love motown music,used to love watching one foot in the grave,the good life was a classic and only full and horses,your blog will get people really using there brains well done sylvi xxxx
Thank you sheener. xxx
OH to be back in those days,no worries no bloody RA/FIBRO.....xx
The Osmonds especially Donny were my favourites going to see him in Glasgow performing with Marie next week so looking forward to it.The Dooleys and Leo Sayer were favourites too.
Oh to be young again. Celebrating the big 50 in Feb where have the years gone.Im still 16 inside my mind.
Cindersxxx
They were great weren't they,also the jacksons with michael jackson. I could go on and on and on.xxx
I'm 56 today, but feel young in my head thinking of these.
I saw hot chocolate, leo sayer and smokie in december and finally got to see DAVID CASSIDY!!!!
Loved Marc Bolan and his music, abba.
What about Mud? My brother used to have an lp of theirs.
We still have records in the loft lol, diana ross, slade and grease!
Mum and dad have the new seekers, mammas & papas, nat king cole etc etc.
God i feel old now lol!!
Me too Josie, short skirts, hotpants, oxford bags and cheesecloth blouses. Also i was soooo slim then.xx
OK Sylvi, here I go.........
Duran Duran, Wham, Spandau ballet,, Cyndi Lauper, Scritti Poliiti (I loved Green - Rick found his album and gave it to me as one of my first presents when we started dating!) I had posters all over my walls and used to spend about half a hour kissing all my fav's good night!!!! bless.....
Now adays I love these bands still - but I love Motown, Maroon 5, Alexandra Burke - to name a few!!!!
I have seen many bands at the Colston Hall in Bristol, and used to go clubbing every Thursday, Friday, Saturday AND Sunday night - and dance to everything!!!
Telly..... Dallas, Captal City, General Hospital, Coronation Street (when I lived at home)
I also had a cheesecloth blouse!!!!!
Thank you Sylvi - you have made me smile!!!
Oh god yes pj68 the clubbing!!
I worked full time but still out to the nighclub wednesday, friday & saturday and on bank holidays.........those were the days lol.
Amazing how we could drink and still get up for work lol.
2 glasses of wine now and im drunk!!!
PJ you must be my age I think (newly 50)? I too had a cheese cloth shirt and a denim waistcoat. I loved Leo Sayer and the Moody Blues but I had to keep quiet about it because it was so uncool! Yellow Brick Road and most of Elton John bring back being thirteen and having crushes - and Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing too. And then moving on to Joan Armatrading and Dylan. I went and saw Dylan at Earl's Court and we all lit little candles to "Candle in the Wind". A bit later on I got obsessed with the Specials and Madness and Blondie. I also remember me and a friend singing to the Pretenders "gotta use my feet, gotta use my finger.. gotta use mah mah mah 'magination" (So Special?) and doing little signs and a wriggly dance to it over and over again. And there was a song called "Body Talk" that used to give me the tingles all over but I don't know who sung it now? And I still love dancing round the room to Stevie Wonder's Master Blaster.
And it's not even snowing here but thanks for making me go to sleep humming Sylvi! TTx
sylvi• in reply to
Milly vanilly or something like that. Elton john and i remember sitting in the pub when i was 16 putting crocodile rock on the juke box.Cider when we wasn't caught under age drinking. God the memories are flooding back.xx
Sylvi you are a tonic this sites needs more people like you .. it takes peoples minds of their problems and cheers us all up
Alison
ps Ilike cliff Richard and abba as well as rock and pop too x
sylvi• in reply to
Those were the days when cliff richard was cool. xx
sylvi• in reply to
Summer i may have the body of 57yr old,but in my head i am still a teenager.xx
Woo you have all taken me back to the 70 disco dancing doctor hook
Slade red cat suit I used to wear god them were the days thank you
For making me smile love Karen x
Sylvie you are a minx!!!!! Who'd have ever thought of you self-combusting at a Hot Chocolate gig? I was more of a rock/indie/punk chick back in the day. I secretly liked some of the more poppy mainstream stuff but was too busy being too cool for school to admit to it back then. Was lucky enough to go to several festivals and gigs - I started my bid to grow old disgracefully at quite a young age 
Out of all the gigs I've been to, the one that had the Errol Brown effect for me was INXS. Saw them at the local uni before they became big news so could get right up to the stage front. I have never seen anyone ooze as much sex appeal and charisma as Michael Hutchens did that night (isn't ooze a lovely evocative word). I was like a rabbit in headlights, all traces of too-cool-for-schoolness straight out the window. Still makes me come of all unnecessary whenever I hear any of their tracks. Good thread my girl x
I was never a uni girl, i worked from the day i left school. I do know what you mean when you say ooze. Inxs was a very good group. I never did festivals. I have grown old in my head only in my body!! xx
This blog gave me a lovely nice long dream in the night, full of all the 'old' days of my youth and what we got up to etc.......! Thank you for this.
sylvi• in reply to
Georje,it has been fun hasn't it. I didn't realise how many groups and singers out there that have come to mind. This has been fun for me as i am not so clever today and i am resting.xxxx
Oh my gosh Sylvia! I have read through all these, and am impressed by how many of the musicians and groups you all enjoyed, that were also popular here in the States. I can also add some I haven't seen mentioned, frpom the 80's: Scorpion, Chicago, John (Cougar) Mellencamp, my beloved Whitney Houston, , Jefferson Starship? then the ones who span more than a decade, and always with us, The Beatles, Yes! Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis (oh he could croon to me all night!) ELVIS! I used to relate to all the romantic lyrics, actually wrote some of them to whomever I was in love with at the time..
This is great fun, makes us realize our youth and exuberance is not so far away after all! I have a large collection of the 331/3 lp record albums from those days, makes me want to go pull out my favorites and play them again! Oh, the musicals! The movies that featured marvelous song, like "The King and I", South Pacific", "Oklahoma", "Chariots of Fire"," The Sound of Music"!!,"West Side Story", oh my, on and on..
I was not a clubber, seldom went out with friends to dance, afraid I was more serious back then, worked all the time, or studied, but I secretly enjoyed the love songs and played them in my room, over and over, don't know why my parents didn't go crazy.
OH yeah, back in the 50's, my brother and some of his friends, got together in our kitchen, and played their guitars and we all sang along with Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Pressley, PatsyC line, all those that bridged that gap between country western and early rock music.
Thank you Sylvia and all for a lovely walk down Memory Lane!
Loretxx
I am pleased you have enjoyed it loretta,it has been fun for me too,going back to my youth when things were so more innocent and we never felt we were short of anything,life was good wasn't it. Musicals,not forgetting saturday night fever and grease,i queued for ages to see these films. xxxx
Oh my gosh yes! Grease I even saw as a Stage Show in Cleveland, Ohio, as my then 15 yr old son Duane had won tickets for it and I was determined to take him, so drove into Cleveland, my maiden voyage for such a thing, but we made it, had a table just one row back from the stage, were treated like royalty all evening. Never will forget that night, and so pleased to have spent it with my young son who was in awe of all the tall buildings in downtown Cleveland. He looked up and said, "Man, New york City couldn't be any bigger than this", that from a very young country boy from a farm in Ohio! He has gone on, is now in Hollywood, California.
He is a lucky young man to have got to hollywood.xxxx
David Essex still has that lovely twinkle in his eyes!
I grew up with my dad's al jolson records, and hans christian anderson songs by danny kaye
sing something simple, junior choice, 2 way family favourites and jimmy clitheroe on the radio and not forgetting listen with mother, singing together and musical movement which we listened to at school.
love this thread, thanks sylvi!
sandra [56years and 1 day old]
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