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1 Alice Cooper - School's Out......Anthem of the summer 2 Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs - Seaside Shuffle...silly summer song :) 3 Hawkwind - Silver Machine.....was this Lemmy from Motorhead? :) 4 The Partridge Family - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do....not a fan of them at all 5 Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well.....one of his better songs 6 Donny Osmond - Puppy Love :puke2: 7 Hot Butter - Popcorn 8 Dr Hook & The Medicine Show - Sylvia's Mother....the only song by them I like 9 Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes....a great version of the Bowie song :yahoo: 10 The Bee Gees - Run To Me....quite liked this :) 11 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now :) 12 Faron Young - It's Four In The Morning.....booooooring 13 Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Parts 1 And 2...if we knew then what we know now <_< 14 Derek & The Dominoes - Layla...one of Clapton's best songs 15 Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture....classic :dance: 16 The New Seekers - Circles :puke2: 17 Little Eva - The Loco-Motion.....re-issue for some reason 18 Bruce Ruffin - Mad About You :puke2: 19 The Supremes - Automatically Sunshine 20 David Bowie - Starman.....one of his best early tracks 21 The Stylistics - Betcha By Golly Wow :puke2: 22 Mary Wells -My Guy :) 23 Chairmen Of The Board - Working On A Building Of Love....this was ok 24 Blackfoot Sue - Standing In The Road :) 25 Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling :) 26 Mardi Gras - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby 27 The Sweet - Little Willy.....was alright 28 Procol Harum - Conquistador :dance: 29 Middle Of The Road - Samson And Delilah 30 Labi Siffre - Watch Me :) 31 Judy Collins - Amazing Grace 32 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Where Is The Love? 33 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day.....never really liked him much 34 Bill Withers - Lean On Me :) 35 The Four Tops - Walk With Me Talk With Me Darling 36 Elvis Presley - American Trilogy 37 The Who - Join Together...liked this one 38 Slade - Take Me Bak 'Ome...good ole thumpin musik :) 39 Pipes & Drums & The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guard - Amazing Grace...why why why why! 40 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face...ok, if a bit dreary

1 Abba - The Winner Takes It All.....typical Abba song, so so for me 2 David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes....absolute classic in my book :yahoo: 3 Diana Ross - Upside Down....nope 4 Sheena Easton - 9 To 5 :puke2: 5 Roxy Music - Oh Yeah (On The Radio)...a bit slow, but nice tune 6 The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head....I think me and Norma went to same kind of parties when this was out :lol: 7 George Benson - Give Me The Night...never a fan of his music 8 Leo Sayer - More Than I Can Say -_- 9 The Jam - Start....good song, all be it A Beatles song in all but name 10 The Piranhas - Tom Hark :mellow: 11 Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica (NY) 12 Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love :puke2: I hated this 13 Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out.....no I didn't like this at all 14 The Gibson Brothers - Mariana...nope 15 Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World...not one of their best 16 Kate Bush - Babooshka...brilliant :cheer: 17 Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty :w00t: 18 Mike Berry - The Sunshine Of Your Smile :puke2: 19 Dexy's Midnight Runners - There There My Dear....another good song 20 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved....not his best track 21 Grace Jones - Private Life...liked this but not her 22 Hot Chocolate - Are You Getting Enough Of What Makes You Happy...poor 23 The Village People - Can't Stop The Music :puke2: 24 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu :puke2: 25 The Clash - Bankrobber....liked this one 26 Sue Wilkinson - You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On 27 The Undertones - Wednesday Week... :) 28 Darts - Let's Hang On 29 Ultravox - Sleepwalk....this was good :dance: 30 Cliff Richard - Dreamin' :puke2: 31 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me :) 32 Nick Straker Band - A Walk In The Park :) 33 Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go :) 34 Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Game (Theme From 'the Invaders') :unsure: 35 Black Sabbath - Neon Knights 36 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I...was ok 37 Roger Daltrey - Free Me :) 38 The Skids - Circus Games :) 39 New Musik - Sanctuary... liked this one 40 Stacy Lattisaw - Jump To The Beat

I do not agree with taxpayers money being used to protect these scum, or giving them a new identity. What kind of signal does this send out to other potential crims, be as sadistic as you like and if you get caught you get protected in jail and you get a new look, identity and live somewhere else free to do the same again. That is totally abhorrent. Mind you as Norma rightly points out it might cost a £1m to fix her face to make her look better.

The BBC has learned that a Libyan man jailed for the Lockerbie airliner bombing in Scotland is expected to be set free on compassionate grounds. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, is serving a life sentence for blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. Detailed preparations are being made to return him to Libya by the end of next week, although the Scottish government says no final decision has yet been made. Is it right to free Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds? Should he receive treatment in prison or be released to get care?

Jet

With the Beatles

Back Off Boogaloo Goodnight Vienna v Only You

Live Forever, a take on Live and Let die What were they called before The Beatles?

Knee (well thought I better keep it clean) :kink:

Mike Flowers Pop with his take on Back in the USSR...called Back in Siberia which Beatle was married 5 times and name his wives?

Is that the same as a load of crap :lol:

Helen Wheels

United Artists

If not for you All things must pass v You

Don't remember most of them, but do know these ones. 04.(6) Kim Wilde - You Came 09.(5) Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love 16.(30) Siouxsie And The Banshees - Peek A Boo 18.(12) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 30.(39) Julia Fordham - Happy Ever After 41.(41) Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River 62.(38) INXS - Never Tear Us Apart 70.(NE) Blow Monkeys - This Is Your Life 77.(72) Prefab Sprout - Hey Manhattan! 91.(80) 'Weird Al' Yankovic - Fat :lol:

Happy birthday Mark :birthday:

Hundreds of Beatles fans made the pilgrimage to the site to follow in the footsteps of the Fab Four, 40 years to the day after the cover was photographed there. But now local councillors are proposing to move the crossing altogether over fears that the number of people posing for photographs in the middle of the road is causing accidents and holding up traffic. The crossing, in St John’s Wood, north London, has attracted increasing numbers of sightseers in recent years, and figures obtained from Westminster Council under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a rising number of accidents in the area. Now, councillors in the ward are calling for changes. They are in discussions with the council’s traffic department over ways to make the crossing and the nearby junction safer. Among the options is to simply dig up the black and white stripes and flashing yellow beacons and install another crossing further along the road. Lindsey Hall, a councillor in the Abbey Road ward, said: “Maybe it is time to end this once and for all and move the zebra crossing. It may end up coming to that.” Judith Warner, another local councillor, has also asked Westminster Council to consider moving the crossing. “I have questioned with our transport department whether it is in the most appropriate place,” she added. Statistics obtained from the council show that accidents in the area around the crossing have been rising steadily in the last 10 years. The number of accidents reported to the council in the eighties and nineties remained level, with 18 accidents. Already, since 2000, there have been 22. Locals believe there are many more accidents which are unreported and fear it is only a matter of time until someone is killed. Any decision to move the crossing to deter tourists is likely to win support from some local residents. Online message boards set up by Beatles fans and dedicated to the crossing have also attracted postings from motorists angry at the delays and hazards caused by tourists posing there. The local councillors called a recent meeting at the site with officers from the council’s traffic department to outline proposed changes. The local authority is considering alterations to the adjacent junction. A spokesman for Westminster Council said: “There’s nothing to indicate any more cause for concern than on any other road. “The issue with that particular crossing is the busy junction. We have looked into a redesign of the junction itself. The iconic crossing would be saved.” Source: Sunday Telegraph

Given that Brogan Mackay was born with not so much a silver spoon as a £25 Burberry designer dummy in her mouth, it is perhaps no surprise that she is growing up with rather expensive tastes. In 11 short years she has graduated from £180 white Gucci loafers, bought by her mother, Alison, before Brogan could even toddle, to £475 Jimmy Choo sandals, and now has a wardrobe stuffed with designer outfits and handbags to match. Her bedroom is strewn with Chanel and Prada handbags. A Gucci bag lies tossed to one side, and is that the latest Louis Vuitton lurking beneath a sequinned cushion? Indeed it is, for Brogan likes to start each school year with a new ‘It’ bag. If there was a GCSE in designer labels, Brogan would be on course for a triple-starred A. And when she tires of all her designer clobber, she can amuse herself with her £550 flatscreen TV, iPhone and £1,300 worth of top brand computer equipment so she can keep up-to-date with the very latest trends and showbiz gossip about her favourite idols. It will not surprise you to learn that her role models are such luminaries as Paris Hilton, Katie Price and sexually provocative pop star Lady GaGa, whose choice of outfit often consists of knickers and little else. Brogan, remember, is just 11, and has just finished primary school. On top of all these designer purchases is the cost of Brogan’s make-up, nail extensions, hair highlights and the fake tanning sessions - paid for by the bank of Mum and Dad. The total amount her parents have lavished on her over the past 11 years is in excess of £150,000 - enough to put towards a much bigger home than the three-bedroom flat in Glasgow where Alison, 28, a part-time pharmacy dispenser and hairdresser lives with Brogan’s father Stephen, 28, a supervisor at a plumbers’ merchants, and their younger daughter, Carys, aged five. ‘When I think of all the money we have spent on Brogan over the years, even I can’t believe it. Her first outfit as a newborn was Baby Dior,’ says Alison, who appears to equate love with lavishing consumer goods on her firstborn. ‘She is spoilt, probably the most spoilt child in Britain. She has everything she needs but I just can’t stop. Whenever I see anything nice I think “Oh, Brogan would like that.” ’ While Brogan is clad in designer labels, Alison says she can only afford to dress herself and the rest of the family in High Street brands. Her younger daughter, Carys, Alison says, is a very easy-going child with no interest in designer clothes and is happy with whatever she is given. ‘I can’t go into a shop without buying Brogan something. She enjoys being pampered because it makes her feel grown up. She’s always been obsessed with her looks and I’m happy to work extra hours to buy her new clothes. It makes me proud.’ She adds: ‘It’s not that I don’t spend money on Carys - I like both my girls to look nice and people are always commenting about how lovely their clothes are - it’s just that Brogan really cares about her appearance and she was an only child until she was six, so we got used to spending all our money on her. ‘Brogan will say to me “Mum, you’re not going out hairdressing again tonight are you?”, and I’ll reply “Where do you think all the money comes from to pay for your things?” ‘Stephen doesn’t mind and just says “Oh let her have it.” We have no savings, but he believes in living for the day. ‘She has 35 pairs of designer shoes and because her feet are still growing, sometimes she only wears them once before they’re too small. When I see the bin-liners full of shoes, ready to take to the charity shop, I do think “What a waste.”’ And if that was not worrying enough, Mum and Dad have also provided Brogan with her very own credit card, which they keep topped up with between £200 and £400 a month, so she can carry on learning about the value of money, by spending their hard-earned cash in their absence. Half of Alison and Stephen’s £30,000 joint income goes on Brogan, and for her 11th birthday they splashed out by spending £2,000 on a stretch limo in which Brogan and ten of her friends - all dressed in pink - drove around Glasgow sipping nonalcoholic champagne. Brogan’s birthday present was a pedigree West Highland Terrier, which goes by the name ‘Barbie’. Small dogs are all the rage amongst the famous-for-simply-being-famous celebs, such as idol Paris Hilton. Oh, and did we forget to mention Brogan has her very own ironing lady, who takes away all those designer clothes and returns them, every week, perfectly pressed? Mum Alison pays for that, too, while pressing her own and Stephen’s clothes. Can’t Brogan iron her own things? ‘I’m frightened to let her near the iron in case she burns herself,’ says Alison, who in her rather warped parental landscape, can’t see that all this needless, expensive pampering might be far more damaging. Most mothers try to insulate their daughters from the pernicious influence of society’s obsession with celebrity lifestyle, fame and body image. But Alison appears to have bought into it wholesale. ‘Some other mothers don’t approve. When friends from school come to play, their mothers will say “My daughter didn’t have a clue about designer labels until she saw all Brogan’s things, now she wants them too”,’ says Alison. ‘But that’s why Brogan is seen as the coolest girl in school and at parents’ evenings teachers are always telling us that she is the ringleader in any group. All the girls look up to her.’ What a comforting thought for other mothers trying to instill in their children values which have nothing to do with consumerism. It has reached the stage where Brogan, brought up with an ingrained sense of entitlement, will throw a tantrum when she does not get exactly what she wants, even though, in other respects, there is an ordinary, caring, innocent little girl desperate to get out. ‘Brogan is an altar girl and every Sunday she’s at chapel and sometimes when she sees me going out at night to cut hair again to pay for things, she’ll say “I’m sorry Mum” and will offer to do the hoovering or wash the dishes,’ says Alison. ‘She still plays with Barbies and plays make-believe games with her little sister. Her favourite game is playing with her baby dolls.’ But even Brogan’s dolls cost £400 a pop. And it’s only the best for Brogan’s dolls, which boast their own Silver Cross pram. Perhaps the answer to this very modern take on the ‘poor little rich girl’ tale lies in the fact that Alison and Stephen were just 17 years old when they accidentally became parents. Alison says she was spoilt herself by her parents, Beth and Kenneth McLean, a builder. ‘I’ve always loved shopping, so has my mum. It’s always been spend, spend, spend with us,’ says Alison, who admits to wanting to live out her dreams through Brogan, by giving her everything she would otherwise be buying for herself. In other words, Brogan is the ultimate ‘mini-me’. ‘When Brogan was born, all the nurses were laughing at her designer Baby Dior clothes and Burberry dummies. ‘They’d never seen anything like it and wanted to take her round to show all the other mothers,’ says Alison, who boasts that she and Brogan are more like sisters than mother and daughter, going off for tanning sessions together. ‘I just wanted the best for her and when I walked into a shop and saw something lovely I just had to have it for her. When she started nursery, the staff used to say to me “Brogan’s clothes are getting ruined, can you bring her in some old clothes?” But she didn’t have any, they were all designer, and she’d regularly come home with them spattered in paint.’ Alison first started colouring Brogan’s hair when she was three - pink wash-out highlights to match her pink designer Moschino dress, for a party at the nursery. And with matching nail extensions, of course. ‘Then, when she was about six, her blonde hair started to go a bit dull, so I put in some permanent highlights to brighten it up and it looked lovely. She liked it so much she kept asking to go lighter and lighter,’ says Alison. ‘Now she’s into Lady GaGa she wants to look just like her, with long hair and a white blonde fringe. She likes dressing up in the same outfits too, leotards and hotpants, but she’s not allowed out in clothes like that.’ With her designer outfits, highlighted hair, high heels and make-up, Brogan is regularly mistaken for an 18-year-old, while Alison - who hardly ever wears make-up - is the one asked for identification when she tries to buy a 15-rated DVD. :o But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of allowing Brogan to become so totally immersed in a celebrity culture is that the latest thing she craves is a boob job. :unsure: She has told her mother she would like to become a glamour model and is already pestering her for surgery. ‘I keep telling her she’s only 11 and that her figure will develop when she’s older and there’s plenty of time,’ says Alison. However, considering how Alison has caved in to almost every one of Brogan’s demands, one doubts her ability to say ‘no’ to her daughter. ‘I’d love her to become famous, because that’s all she talks about, but it does worry me that she’s now talking about glamour modelling,’ says Alison. ‘She doesn’t really understand the sleazy side of it all because she’s only 11. All she sees is the money, the fame, the nice lifestyle and the parties. ‘I don’t want her to become a glamour model, but I’ve told her I can’t stop her doing what she wants to do when she’s older. ‘I say to her “What about becoming a teacher?” and she’ll just roll her eyes. ‘My youngest says “Mum, I want to be a hairdresser just like you”, but Brogan insists she’ll never be just a hairdresser.’ Perhaps Alison only has herself to blame. Surely she is responsible for allowing Brogan to be mesmerised by these flashy, seductive, overly sexualised images on television and in magazines at such a young age? And what happens if Brogan doesn’t make it as a model? How, as an adult, is she going to fund the WAG lifestyle inhabited by the Cheryl Coles of this world? ‘I try to tell her that money doesn’t grown on trees. A friend of hers recently got a job doing a paper round and I suggested to Brogan she might like to do the same, but she just said “No chance.” ‘She wants to be a model, nothing else. She wants to be a somebody. She wants the lifestyle.’ And if she doesn’t make it, you know who’s going to be paying for it, in more ways than one. See photos here: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/artic...ld-Britain.html When I started to read this I though her parents would be super rich, but was shocked that they just had ordinary jobs. What a complete pair of deluded idiots for giving her basically everything she wants regardless of cost. This is a very extreme case but it kind of sums up the way some of today's youngsters are thinking. No one want to be a doctor,nurse,fireman anymore, especaially girls, they just want to be models or marry a rich footballer. What a sorry state we will be in a few decades from now if this happens.

Forty years ago yesterday, at 11.35am, The Beatles walked across a zebra crossing in an innocuous North London street. The photoshoot for their new Abbey Road album happened just yards from the eponymous recording studios and took ten minutes - only six frames were taken by the photographer, Iain Macmillan, who was perched on a stepladder. It has since become one of the most iconic covers in history for two reasons - no album cover has inspired more imitations, and none has spawned such a mass of conspiracy theories. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/brian91/AbbeyRoadFront.jpg For Beatles obsessives with fevered imaginations, it was ultimate proof of the bizarre theory of the time - that Paul McCartney was, in fact, dead. According to the legend, Paul had died in a car accident and been replaced by an impostor. The band, it was said, subsequently felt guilty about the deception, and so placed hidden clues on the album cover for their fans. Thus, even today, despite the apparent rude health of McCartney, they insist that if you look closely at the images on the front and back of the album it is packed with deathly symbolism. What is certain is that the album denoted one death of sorts. Unbeknown to the public at the time, The Beatles were in the final throes of a bitter break-up and would never record another album. Relations had deteriorated to such an extent that the group abandoned their original title of Everest, together with a shoot in the Himalayas, and were photographed instead walking away from the studios and everything they had once shared. For other devotees, however, far more could be read into the image... 1. THE FUNERAL The procession of The Beatles across the zebra crossing, say the conspiracy theorists, represents Paul's funeral. John Lennon leads in a white suit and symbolises the preacher; Ringo Starr is the mourner, dressed in black; George Harrison, in scruffy shirt and trousers, denotes the grave-digger; Paul is wearing an old suit and is the only one who is barefoot. He later explained that he began the shoot wearing sandals but, because it was a hot day, he kicked them off. The theorists believed that if this was the case, the hot tarmac would be too uncomfortable. This, they argued, was a sign that Paul was the corpse. 2. THE CIGARETTE Paul McCartney is left-handed, but here holds his cigarette in his right hand. At the time, cigarettes were commonly referred to as 'coffin nails'. This, therefore, could be seen as a message that Paul's 'coffin lid' had been nailed down and that the man in the picture was a lookalike. Paul is also out of step with the other band members. Each of the others has his left leg forward, but Paul has his right leg forward - again marking him out as different. 3. THE REGISTRATION PLATE The white VW Beetle in the background has the registration LMW 28IF - 28 being the age conspiracy theorists say Paul would have been IF he hadn't 'died'. In fact, Paul was 27 when Abbey Road was released - but fortunately for the theorists, Indian mystics count a person's age from conception, not birth, in which case Paul would have indeed been 28 at the time. Besides, the band were famously followers of the Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It has also been suggested that the LMW stands for 'Linda McCartney Weeps' - referring to his new wife whom he had married earlier that year. 4. THE SPECTATORS In the background, a small group of people dressed in white stand on one side of the road, while a lone person stands on the other. Is this meant to be Paul, alone and different from the others? 5. THE POLICE VAN On the right-hand side of the road is a black police van, believed to be a reference to the police who kept quiet about Paul's 'death'. According to legend, the band's manager, Brian Epstein, bought their silence, and the presence of the Maria is meant as another subtle thank you. 6. THE LINE OF CARS A line can be traced from the VW Beetle to the three cars in front of it. If it is drawn connecting their right wheels it runs straight through Paul's head, with theorists suggesting that means Paul sustained a head injury because of a car crash. Internet picture of the front cover of Abbey Road by the Beatles showing the 'blood stain' next to Ringo Starr 7. THE BLOODSTAIN On the Australian version of the album, the cover showed what could be a bloodstain splattered on the road just behind Ringo and John, supposedly backing claims of a road accident. 8. THE CRACKED S On the back cover there is a picture of the Abbey Road sign and above it the name Beatles has been written. There is an obvious crack running through the S - thought to suggest problems within the group. 9. THE DOTS To the left of the name 'BEATLES' there are a series of eight dots. When joined together they form the number three. Did this mean there were only three Beatles left? 10. IMAGE OF DEATH If the back cover is turned 45 degrees anticlockwise a crude image of the Grim Reaper appears, from his skull to his black gown. Theorists believed it was a sign that someone in the group had died. 11. THE GIRL Nobody knows the identity of the girl dressed in blue on the back cover. On the night of the theorists' 'car crash' it was raining heavily and Paul is said to have given a lift to a fan called Rita. It could be that this girl is her, either fleeing the scene or running to get help. 12. PAUL'S FINAL RESTING PLACE If the writing on the wall is split into sections, it conveys the cryptic message, 'Be at Les Abbey'. In numerology the following two letters, R and O, are the 18th and 15th letters in the alphabet. By adding this together (33) and multiplying by the number of letters (2), we get 66, the year Paul is supposed to have died. Three also represents the letter C so 33 could also stand for CC. Cece is short for Cecilia, with theorists claiming Paul was 'laid to rest' at St Cecilia's Abbey, a monastery in Ryde, Isle of Wight. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/brian91/AbbeyRoadBack.jpg Source: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article...acy-theory.html I suppose you could come up with any theory if you look hard enough at a picture?

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Sad news, I too liked Spanish Stroll.

Well he is now legally a free man, but I doubt he will live long enough to make use of it. Read today where he was critising the soft prisons culture, that they let lags sit around all day and take drugs, when they should be taught new skills. You have to laugh.

Well if she was asked why the drugs were in her case, when the airport staff found them and she didn't have a good reason, she is guilty, that would take about 5 minutes in my book. Why should a trial last for days on end, the defence pulling out dozens of witnesses to say "oh she was such a good child" or "she has been suffering from stress" blah de blah. If you ask me our country could learn something by reducing the length of court cases. Everyone knows if you get caught smuggling drugs in this part of the world what the consequences are, ignorance is not an excuse anymore.

David Hasselhoff :lol: What instruments did they all play?

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