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The History of Pop Music – 1993
Featured song: Pet Shop Boys – Go West 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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Labour’s bad boys – the intro
A series on Labour’s bad boys has been suggested. At first sight it seemed akin to climbing Everest, there are just so many but on reflection, as one of the current phrases goes, it is [more…]
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Desert Mystery: Wrecked in The Desert
Amongst my collection of original photographs taken during the Desert War by members of the Deutsche Afrika Korps, I have several of wrecked aircraft but most are usually burnt out and, except to an aviation [more…]
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The History of Pop Music – 1992
Featured song: Guns N’ Roses – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 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…]
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The History of Pop Music – 1991
Featured song: Free – All Right Now (Doing Their Thing, 1970) Official Live Video This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up [more…]
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The History of Pop Music – 1990
Featured song: Status Quo – The Anniversary Waltz (I & II) This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]
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Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Seven
Back in March of this year, I authored a series of articles on GP based on my translations of the Feldpost letters of a German soldier, Hans Coutandin, to his girlfriend Evchen Möller. Part 6 [more…]
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The History of Pop Music – 1989
Featured song: Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine 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…]
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A Scottish Tragedy
Fifty five years ago, I would have been thirteen, I joined the Scouts, I had been in the Boys Brigade but didn’t like all the marching and keep fit. The 39th Dundee Pack were based [more…]