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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1980
Featured Album: Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Seven
Before the war, Hitler had commissioned Albert Speer to redesign Berlin into the “Capital of the World”, a city greater than London, Paris or Rome that he wanted to call Germania. When the war started [more…]
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The Desert War – February 1941
The second month in 1941 was not up to the joys of January for the Allies. The Germans started arriving in North Africa and the push into Libya did not go much further. There was [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1979
Featured Album: ELO – Discovery This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the link [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Six
Mike and Jinnie had decided that the easiest way to explain to her parents who he was and why she was spending so much time with him was to tell them that he was a [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1978
Featured Album: Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Five
Ever since last week’s “Whist Night” Jinnie had been thinking over what she had heard. How could it be true that the Germans had exterminated all those people and nobody in England talked about it? [more…]
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A History of Pop Music – Albums 1977
Featured Album: Fleetwood Mac – Rumours This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Four
Thursday came around quite slowly for Jinnie as she was anxious to hear more. She had seen Ethel on a couple of her visits to the residential home since the last “whist” night, but she [more…]