It's all so long ago

[Norbert 145]

Isn’t it sobering to think that Don’t You Want Me by the Human League was released closer to the end of the Second World War than to today.

 

As were No Sleep Til Hammersmith - Motorhead, Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough, Sonic Youth’s Debut Album, Limelight – Rush, Whip It – Devo, Land Speed Record – Husker Du, Penthouse and Pavement – ABC, Rise Above - Black Flag, etc.

 

As of today the mid point between VE Day and now is by my calculation: 30th Jan 1982.

 

This was inspired by something Richard Osman said about Baggy Trousers by Madness a while back.

[Longcol 598]

Penthouse and Pavement was by Heaven 17.

[Norbert 145]

Other things that happened nearer to WWII than to today:

 

Peter Davidson becomes Dr Who

 

Only Fools & Horses, Postman Pat, Tenko

 

Time Bandits, Gregory's Girl

 

NEXT stores and AIDS appear in the UK

[Mister M 1,609]

Other things that happened nearer to WWII than to today:

 

Peter Davidson becomes Dr Who

 

Only Fools & Horses, Postman Pat, Tenko

 

Time Bandits, Gregory's Girl

 

NEXT stores and AIDS appear in the UK

 

That's freaky!

[Ontarian1981 10]

Well, I fit this thread quite well. I was born before the end of WW2, I left England at 37 and have now just completed 37 years ( Nov 5th 1981?) in Canada. I am now officially 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.

[St Petre 85]

Other things that happened nearer to WWII than to today:

 

Peter Davidson becomes Dr Who

 

Only Fools & Horses, Postman Pat, Tenko

 

Time Bandits, Gregory's Girl

 

NEXT stores and AIDS appear in the UK

 

Ah Gregory's Girl (1981), wasn't the lead actress predicted to be the next British female film idol ?

[Longcol 598]

50 years since the release of the Beatles White Album - released 50 years after the end of WW1.

[Norbert 145]

The following things happened nearer the end of WWII than now:

 

CD players and pound coins introduced in UK

 

Blackadder, Blockbusters, CITV, Breakfast TV

 

Blue Monday, Let's Dance, Billie Jean, Red Red Wine, Temptation - Heaven 17, Keep Feeling Fascination - Human League

 

Educating Rita, Local Hero, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Man With Two Brains, Trading Places, One Deadly Summer

[Norbert 145]

On 08/11/2018 at 21:54, St Petre said:

 

Ah Gregory's Girl (1981), wasn't the lead actress predicted to be the next British female film idol ?

Dee Hepburn, yes she chose to slip back into anonymity and live a normal life, quite possibly a good move. Whereas the other actress in GG Claire Grogan carried on acting, and what a terrible actress she was, see Father Ted.