• 43 years ago

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:43 pm**

Marc Bolan died in a car crash in London. How time flies.

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:46 pm**

Steve Jobs took control of Apple. 1997.

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:05 pm**

I started Primary school around about now 43 years ago

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:21 pm**

Marc Bolan died in a car crash in London. How time flies.

Shame he didn't

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:22 pm**

I was 21 years old !

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:01 pm**

Died at the scene. 5 a.m. car being driven by his girlfriend, seat belts not being worn (they weren't compulsory back then) and his nearby flat in Barnes broken into and ransacked with all his guitars and numerous other items stolen by 9 a.m. Plus an incomplete will which sent his wealth and his subsequent royalties into a shady off shore tax haven under the control of shadowy and unknown "trustees". A weird one. As a teenager I really wasn't into his music at the time (early/mid 70's) but loads of my mates were. However I listen to it frequently these days in the car and much of it has grown on me. Was he any good?? Well, he's one of those who for every brilliant tune (and there's more than a few) there's also a number of self indulgent crap ones, so I really don't know! The riff for "Get It On" is definitely one of THE most iconic ever though.

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:10 pm**

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:01 pm
Died at the scene. 5 a.m. car being driven by his girlfriend, seat belts not being worn (they weren't compulsory back then) and his nearby flat in Barnes broken into and ransacked with all his guitars and numerous other items stolen by 9 a.m. Plus an incomplete will which sent his wealth and his subsequent royalties into a shady off shore tax haven under the control of shadowy and unknown "trustees". A weird one. As a teenager I really wasn't into his music at the time (early/mid 70's) but loads of my mates were. However I listen to it frequently these days in the car and much of it has grown on me. Was he any good?? Well, he's one of those who for every brilliant tune (and there's more than a few) there's also a number of self indulgent crap ones, so I really don't know! The riff for "Get It On" is definitely one of THE most iconic ever though.

His girlfriend was Gloria Jones who had a massive Northern soul hit with "Tainted Love".

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:15 pm**

The King died too, That's someone you never forget.

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:28 pm**

kritichris wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:15 pm
The King died too, That's someone you never forget.

Lynarrd skynard band???

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:32 pm**

kritichris wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:15 pm
The King died too, That's someone you never forget.

tim_noone wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:28 pm
Lynarrd skynard band???

No. That was about 1970 weren't it?

The Lynarrd skynard King.

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:37 pm**

Elvis

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:42 pm**

HahaYeah wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:32 pm
No. That was about 1970 weren't it?

The Lynarrd skynard King.

1977

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:45 pm**

40 years since Lennon was shot.

26 yrs since Senna and Ratzenberger died.

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:49 pm**

HahaYeah wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:32 pm
No. That was about 1970 weren't it?

The Lynarrd skynard King.

1977

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:54 pm**

FactualFrank wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:46 pm
Steve Jobs took control of Apple. 1997.

For the second time.

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 7:50 am**

conyoviejo wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:10 pm
His girlfriend was Gloria Jones who had a massive Northern soul hit with "Tainted Love".

Indeed she was and also the mother of Bolan's only child Roland who was just 2 years old at the time of his death, so never really met his father. Roland (or Gloria) never got any of Bolan's wealth, but his godfathers are Ringo Starr and the late David Bowie and the latter apparently paid for Roland's private education whilst he was growing up and to put him through university. (Perhaps advanced driving lessons for Gloria might have been a good idea

)

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:24 am**

tim_noone wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:28 pm
Lynarrd skynard band???

Lynyrd Skynyrd - the longest band name to chart that doesn't contain a vowel.

What was the longest song title to chart that also contains no vowels?

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:27 pm**

Yes, Herts, that's what we were taught early on: Y is a consonant. But your example and many others demonstrate that Y often performs the function of a vowel - hymn, tryst, myth, rhythm, why, dry, spy etc, and most adverb endings -ly.
I think my primary schoolteacher was economical with the truth, and that Y should be reclassified as a dual-purpose letter.

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:30 pm**

jrtod61 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:27 pm
Yes, Herts, that's what we were taught early on: Y is a consonant. But your example and many others demonstrate that Y often performs the function of a vowel - hymn, tryst, myth, rhythm, why, dry, spy etc, and most adverb endings -ly.
I think my primary schoolteacher was economical with the truth, and that Y should be reclassified as a dual-purpose letter.

So you don't know the answer then?

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:16 pm**

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy?

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:22 pm**

Dougall wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:16 pm
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy?

Not the answer I have - I think my question should have read to reach the UK Top 10, which Fall Out Boy didn't.

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:26 pm**

I was training Recruits at Woolwich, London as a young Army NCO not realising that a few weeks hence we would be re-roled as Firefighters.

Ooooh exciting times...

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:27 pm**

That Crash Test Dummies one....Mmm, Mmm, Mmm?

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:39 pm**

Dougall wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:27 pm
That Crash Test Dummies one....Mmm, Mmm, Mmm?

That's the answer i had. Mmm mmm mmm mmm

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:43 pm**

The car what he was in was a Purple Mini , funny strange things that you keep in your mind other things that happened yesterday are gone forever

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:45 pm**

JohnMac wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:26 pm
I was training Recruits at Woolwich, London as a young Army NCO not realising that a few weeks hence we would be re-roled as Firefighters.

Ooooh exciting times...

Green Goddesses.

Posted: **Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:49 pm**

Tribesmen wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:43 pm
The car what he was in was a Purple Mini , funny strange things that you keep in your mind other things that happened yesterday are gone forever

I've driven that road many times. The memorial flowers are still there (refreshed, of course).

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:34 am**

I was watching Burnley in our darkest time

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:23 am**

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:45 pm
40 years since Lennon was shot.

26 yrs since Senna and Ratzenberger died.

Just imagine Lennon on twitter? He'd be worse than Morrissey

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2020 12:58 pm**

My father died in the April.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2020 12:59 pm**

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:34 am
I was watching Burnley in our darkest time

Our darkest time was 9 years later.

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