TRAITOR. Corrupted by DEMOCRATS. Posted to save others the trouble of quoting Trump. (View Post)

Of course we compared what was on offer then to what had gone before. And you're right there was a lot more music about in the late 50's/early 60's than earlier. And it was easier to buy a gramophone… (View Post)

It was skiffle and rock which made the difference. Before then it was all ballads. I remember taking my (then) girl-friend to see Rock Around the Clock and watching the girls dancing in the cinema ai… (View Post)

Our Rag committee booked Acker Bilk JUST before 'Stranger on the Shore' became big! (View Post)

I remember driving one damp-ish night in, IIRC November 1962, along a road in Oldham and seeing a long, long queue of what seemed to be very young women queueing for the theatre, which in those days … (View Post)