Coventry City

jimharri said:
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Went through the place recently was only a youngster when I visited highfield road couldn't really remember it etc, fucking hell what a shit hole the place is more windows boarded up than after the mosside riots. The specials were right about ghost town fucking depressing place.
 
Vienna_70 said:
I love this reply:

Go through the squad
1 step beyond
2 tone
3 nelson Mandela.

Great reference to the whole movement.
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I was living in the concrete jungle at the time. Didnt appreciate the scene as too wrapped up getting into punk in 1979 a year after it was effectively over! (I was 16....)
To me it was punk or nothing you couldnt be eclectic with your taste!
Madness to me were a cartoon band, the Monkees for the 80's. But i did like The Beat and early UB40.
The Specials i look back on and wrote some cracking tunes, totally sound tracking the times.
I maybe wrong but i think Ghost Town was No 1 the week of Charles and Di's wedding....
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I was living in the concrete jungle at the time. Didnt appreciate the scene as too wrapped up getting into punk in 1979 a year after it was effectively over! (I was 16....)
To me it was punk or nothing you couldnt be eclectic with your taste!
Madness to me were a cartoon band, the Monkees for the 80's. But i did like The Beat and early UB40.
The Specials i look back on and wrote some cracking tunes, totally sound tracking the times.
I maybe wrong but i think Ghost Town was No 1 the week of Charles and Di's wedding....
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Yeah, you’re right. It became No. 1 on 11th July and spent three weeks there. Shakin' Stevens' Green Door took over on 1st August. The royal wedding was near the end of July.

I stayed with my aunt and her family in Northamptonshire during early July, and its first week at No. 1 was that week.

Interestingly (or not), I left their house to travel back to my home in Cornwall early on the following Sunday morning , and as I approached the M4, I was waved down by a policeman, who asked where I was going and where I’d come from.

I told him and he explained that he and colleagues were looking for ringleaders of the ongoing riots, but I didn’t look like I was one of them and he allowed me to go on my way.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Yeah, you’re right. It became No. 1 on 11th July and spent three weeks there. Shakin' Stevens' Green Door took over on 1st August. The royal wedding was near the end of July.

I stayed with my aunt and her family in Northamptonshire during early July, and its first week at No. 1 was that week.

Interestingly (or not), I left their house to travel back to my home in Cornwall early on the following Sunday morning , and as I approached the M4, I was waved down by a policeman, who asked where I was going and where I’d come from.

I told him and he explained that he and colleagues were looking for ringleaders of the ongoing riots, but I didn’t look like I was one of them and he allowed me to go on my way.
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Ha ha really?
 
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