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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest Preview

16th May 2025 Going Postal 1896 Comments

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday glides effortlessly across the neatly trimmed crease to deliver yet another groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. Let [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1977

9th May 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2911 Comments

Featured song: Eagles – Hotel California 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. One [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth Pt. 1

2nd May 2025 Going Postal 2822 Comments

Greeting, pop pickers, and please be welcome to this week’s fabulously flamboyant Friday. Ah, the 1970s… A splendid decade. But they weren’t just about Ford Cortinas, Vesta curries, platform shoes, ludicrous flares, questionable facial hair, [more…]

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Inventions that changed music – Part 3 The electric guitar

25th April 2025 Northern Man 2408 Comments

 “Necessity is the mother of invention” is a proverb which, though not in those precise words, dates back to at least 6BC, featuring in one of Aesop’s fables (“The Crow and the Pitcher” if you [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off Pt. 5

18th April 2025 Going Postal 2887 Comments

Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight, dear reader, as we respectfully mark Toddle Waddle month, [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1976

11th April 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2296 Comments

Featured song: ABBA – Dancing Queen 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. One [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – Chinnichap

4th April 2025 Going Postal 2247 Comments

Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday glides effortlessly over the crease to deliver yet another groin-polished googly from the gasworks end of musical magnificence. This week we [more…]

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The History of Pop Music – 1975

28th March 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 2373 Comments

Featured song: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 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. One [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: The Day Music Died Pt 2

21st March 2025 Going Postal 2679 Comments

Greetings pop pickers! Please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. Tonight’s missive was originally entitled Splat!, but I thought that a [more…]

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