Catching up on #totp ‘83 and six of the seven acts on the show had a number one during their career. Only The Cure missed out. Am including Marilyn’s contribution to Do They Know It’s Christmas to make this work
#totp 81
This No.1 was so of its time. You couldn’t avoid it in 1981. It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To was sung in school corridors, on buses, by ALL tradesmen, everywhere. Not heard in it decades. Used up a lifetimes allowance in 1981
Taken from the dress circle at Hackney Empire. Gig highlight.… everybody going nuts to Geno and Come On Eileen, while Nick Heyward sat just ten feet away from me, in the middle of all this craziness sat impassively studying the stage #Dexys
Duet Emmo’s first ever gig last night, only 43 years after their album release. Forty three!. A rammed ‘in the round’ gig at the ICA with bin rattling support from Factory Floor’s Nik Colk Void
So Lineker’s agent Jon Holmes talked Martin O’Neil out of the Leeds job. The cnut. According to Holmes MO’N had made up his mind to take it as well. #lufc fan Dave Tomlinson joins the pod to discusses his book ‘Doing a Leeds’
open.spotify.com/episode/5nY…