Remember Christmas mornings? Creeping downstairs to see what Father Christmas had brought you. You were sure to get at least one annual. Imagine your surprise, or perhaps disappointment, when you unwrapped your Tony Blackburn Pop Special.
Actually to be fair, it wasn’t all about Tony, the seventy-odd
pages were mainly filled with photos and trivia about the latest pop
sensations. This third annual, yes there were three printed between 1968 and
1970, I discovered in a second-hand bookshop in Haworth last month, eschewing
anything Bronte related you’ll notice.
Tony seemingly not understanding the concept of a chair. |
Breakfast Show regulars Gerald and Arnold. |
We all remember Arnold (woof! woof!) but who remembers
Gerald? On the face of it a reject from theTelegoons.
Cilla Black and P.P. Arnold. Other "birds" were Sandie Shaw and Sylvia McNeill (who?) |
There are features on the Stones, the Hollies, the Tremeloes, Marmalade and new groups
such as Pickettywitch and The Jackson Five. Ah, the memories! On page 74 here’s the new look The Love Affair and
the Manfred Mann splinter group, Chapter Three.
I wouldn’t normally plug anything with Piers Morgan in but
it’s worth pointing out that Tony Blackburn is his sixth victim in the current
series of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories
that airs on ITV1 a week on Friday, that’s 7 February at 9 p.m.
1 comment:
I cannot believe that I've just happened to stumble across this post on Tony Blackburn's birthday! It also comes back to me that I think I once made a comment at another post at 'Random radio jottings' as the name looks vaguely familiar...and the Hull/France story behind its author, for that matter.
Just over this past few days I've been made aware of the fact that the simply wonderful YouTube channel, 'Retro British Television' has made another attempt at an existence on the platform, maybe only to be taken down within a matter of days. I was watching an edition of 'Whittaker's World Of Music', (the very first edition) recorded on 4th April 1971, where there was a guest performance by Sylvia McNeill, which was a name completely new to me, so, as one does, I looked into her and found this 'Random radio jottings' Blog post, where Sylvia is referenced as "who?", so it appears that I'm not the only one whom has been mystified by the name. By chance, another rather more familiar name mentioned in that article embedded at your post, PP Arnold, is connected with this date, as, one-and-a-half decades ago, on 29th January 2009, I went to see her appearing with Geno Washington and Jimmy James at 'This Is Soul' at Derby's Assembly Rooms.
You may recall my drawing parallels between Tony Blackburn and another child of 29th January, Valérie Čižmárová, for whom I run the Fan Blog, 'Bananas For Breakfast'. At today's post, marking what should have been her seventy-second birthday, you will note that there've been a couple more celebrities who have come to my attention who were born on that date.
I hope you enjoy that 'Whittaker's World Of Music' and that 'Bananas For Breakfast' post and the 'Girls Of The Golden East' post linked therefrom!
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