Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1962
Featured song: Chubby Checker – Let’s Twist Again 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…]
Music
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Rise Of The Wrinklies
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends! Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our furious mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1961
Featured song: The Shadows – FBI – as performed on Crackerjack (It’s Friday what do we all say?) This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – The Day The Music Died
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards pop pickers to be born… Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the [more…]
Arts
A History of Pop Music – 1960
Featured song: Everly Brothers – Cathy’s Clown 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 it. [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Cockles & Mussels…
…Alive, Alive O! Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1959
Featured song: Bert Weedon – Guitar Boogie Shuffle 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…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – Why Are You Gay?
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends. This week, we shall don our finest white polyester suits and totter about on our tallest platform shoes for yet another elegantly coiffured, meticulously manicured [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1958
Featured song: Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire 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 [more…]