42 years ago today

[speccybob]

RIP

Legend is a word bandied about too easily. This guy was brilliant. Still sounds fresh today.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuxJH2Mj30[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgyXXnbfBc[/youtube]

 

[Lucky Toma]

Didn't his dad do that R Whites lemonade commercial in the 70s?

 

[speccybob]

That was Elvis Costello's according to google.

 

[laserblue]

Didn't his dad do that R Whites lemonade commercial in the 70s?

You've lost me there mate but as a teenager his drummer Mitch Mitchell did a long running Jubbly TV commercial which was still running in his Jimi Hendrix Experience days. "Lovely Jubbly!"

And Hendrix is most certainly a legend.

 

[Lucky Toma]

Ah shit. Of course it was.

This was the guy who was Leslie Crother's son-in-law wasnt it.

 

[laserblue]

Ah shit. Of course it was.

This was the guy who was Leslie Crother's son-in-law wasnt it.

You're on a wind up aren't you, you little tinker? That was Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy.

 

[speccybob]

I do know that Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame played on Baker street;)

 

[the blue panther]

I do know that Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame played on Baker street;)

I thought that was Phil Jones

 

[laserblue]

I do know that Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame played on Baker street;)

Urban myth started by Stuart Maconie. However, Bob was the second actor to play James Bond (between Barry Nelson and Sean Connery) in a South African radio production of Moonraker in 1957.

 

[Lucky Toma]

Ah shit. Of course it was.

This was the guy who was Leslie Crother's son-in-law wasnt it.

You're on a wind up aren't you, you little tinker? That was Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy.

Fucks sake. Sorry mate, being dumb today.

I've definitely got it now. His mother invented Tippex.