Around 1980 in the UK there was a cinema re-release double bill of Midnight Express & Taxi Driver. I saw it with friends aged 20 in the old Odeon, Queen St. Leicester when it was still circle & stalls for the main screen. I left utterly stunned by two masterpieces, adrenaline pumping for days!
Ghastly Chills Gnash & Yuck
He (in conjunction with Nantucket Sleighride) stimulated my interest as a young teenager in in-depth news coverage as presenter of Weekend World prior to Brian Waldron. RIP.
I fell in love with that album in my teens about 45 years ago. Think after hearing this track on Alan Freeman’s Saturday afternoon Radio 1 show. youtu.be/yoPE7WnzvLo?...
YouTube video by Annette Peacock - Topic
Would be even better on here rather than Twitter but hey ho. The last line makes me wonder about the point of greatest hits albums in the age of streaming. Unless you buy it in physical format it’s just laziness of using someone else’s playlist instead of creating your own.
I have always struggled to find anything worth watching (for me) on Netflix. It’s hard to describe to someone too young to remember how exciting and innovative the TV of the 70’s - 90’s felt, especially BBC2 & the original version of Ch4.
I was never a big fan but my favourite track of theirs was Living In Europe, live on the Old Grey Whistle Test, 1982. Annie Nightingale RIP. youtu.be/6qxntKT1RZE?...
YouTube video by Kenny King