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Month: January 2019

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – 1967

4th January 2019 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: The Monkees – I’m a Believer This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making [more…]

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Postcard from Lille, prologue

4th January 2019 Going Postal 0

Previously, underused first class carriages formed an overnight , £5 a seat, train between Glasgow and London. It was called the Nightrider. In those days Scotsman would travel with ghettoblasters and a cardboard tray of [more…]

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