The FOC thread.

noseve said:
Agreed - funny how songs I wouldn't give a second listen to today, are still so evocative when I hear them.

Last week, channel-flipping in unfamiliar waters (Coventry) I heard 'Excerpts from a Teenage Opera' (the Grocer Jack song). A wave of emotion hit me, not having heard it for 40 years or more. The house was full of music then, and I remembered all my 'aunties' and 'uncles' (just neighbours, really) jigging around in their gaudy 60s and 70s gear. Every one long since gone, of course.

Mum and dad had this song on an 8-track, followed immediately by Matt Monroe's 'We're gonna change the world' . I can never hear one without thinking of the other.
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Both on my playlist
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
A friend of mine went to the same school as PN (I think it was St Bedes?).
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Thought he went to Stretford Grammar and his teachers made a few bob selling his old books when he became famous.
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
We got talking to Noone, seemed OK. I was going to ask him "red or blue" but I chickened out.
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He's still touring, several shows a month all across America and seems to enjoy it. Saw him in nyc a couple of years ago, I was wearing a City shirt that he gave a thumbs-up to when he came by our table.
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Thought he went to Stretford Grammar and his teachers made a few bob selling his old books when he became famous.

He's still touring, several shows a month all across America and seems to enjoy it. Saw him in nyc a couple of years ago, I was wearing a City shirt that he gave a thumbs-up to when he came by our table.
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Came by your table??? What kind of show,was it?? Straight from the Reimeperbhann??:-)
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
I seem to recall his father was with Granada TV and was able to use his influence for PN's music career.
A friend of mine went to the same school as PN (I think it was St Bedes?). I went to meet him one day and we sat outside the school eating fish & chips. We got talking to Noone, seemed OK. I was going to ask him "red or blue" but I chickened out.
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With reference to Peter Noone's old school, a couple of posters have mentioned St Bedes and Stretford Grammar. I do remember an old work colleague mentioning that he went to Urmston Grammar in the same year as him. Noone was definitely expelled for deliberately flooding the toilets. Seems like a nice boy.
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Thought he went to Stretford Grammar and his teachers made a few bob selling his old books when he became famous.

He's still touring, several shows a month all across America and seems to enjoy it. Saw him in nyc a couple of years ago, I was wearing a City shirt that he gave a thumbs-up to when he came by our table.
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Are you sure it wasn’t just Silhouettes?
 
In the Donnaruma thread, somebody mentioned Niall Quinn's penalty save, which reminded me of a particular night in the 70s, when the only midweek football was Sportsnight with Coleman (as long as the bloody Horse of the Year show wasn't on :-<)

What a different atmosphere/pitch/everything it was then.

Magical, as a kid.

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The time has come, the foc said, to speak of many things....donkey stones and rationing, Kippax kings and drain-pipes, Ben Shermans, penny rounds, the mersey sounds, teddy boys and skinheads. Park Drive and Players Weights, smoking on buses, apprentice-ships, actual GP's, gold teeth, £75,000 considered a fortune, student's Rag week, politicians resigning after being caught lying (TRUE !!) Radio Luxemberg, the uproar at the beeb over radio caroline, and the efforts to stamp out CB radios. The rush to leave the cinema before the national anthem, Durex only available at the barbers..something for the weekend sir? the Pill being called the "end of civilisation". Not having to worry about "super-bugs" if you went to hospital.Sunday Night at the Palladian rivalling the Grand National and the FA cup final for peak viewing. School milk, Whit walks and holiday camps..(avoiding Glasgow week), the thousands of jobs in Trafford Park fed by the 53 bus, and bicycles.
 
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