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An American Werewolf In London
August 1981. Today I was round Nanny’s house, I was looking at her Sun newspaper while she was cooking in the kitchen. I opened a page and saw the werewolf from the new film American Werewolf in London. I couldn’t stop looking at the picture even though it scared me,...
Radio HIAB-X 1970’s Vol.2
I wasn't buying music in the 1970's but I was listening intently at the variety of styles, knowing as all music lovers do, the tracks that 'hit the spot'. They were committed to memory, they were in their own kind of way, 'first loves'. I find it interesting in...
Alien
May 1979 I was sitting up late watching Film 79 presented by Barry Norman. He showed a clip of a film called Alien, there was this man in a tunnel and a dot was chasing him while a woman was starting to cry. The music was really scary and the dot was getting closer to...
Howling
March 1979 Today Gillian took Jamie and me to Sainsburys in Bowthorpe and left us to look at books in the newsagent. I saw this horrible book called The Howling with a scary lady wolf on the cover, I didn’t want to look at it but I kept doing it, in the end I turned...
Radio HIAB-X 1970’s Vol.1
My love of music stretches back to my earliest memories of being alive. My parents, especially my Mum usually had the radio on or was regularly playing something on the record player. This and the Vol.2 playlist are a compilation of the tracks that most strongly evoke...
Greasy
June 1978 There’s this new film that all the girls at school are mad about, called Grease. Today Teresa Brown brought her soundtrack in to play during ‘Show and tell’. It’s quite good, I found the picture of the cow on the record quite hypnotic as it spun round and...
Future Anxiety
I'm worried that when I grow up, I'm going to have to ask strangers if they can help me tie my shoe laces. I've been crying about it. Daddy made me a pretend shoe with a shoelace, to help me get it right. What If I can't? Will I get to twenty and have to ask a lady to...
Denise,Denise
A new girl has joined Mrs Murray’s class. Her name is Denise, like the Blondie song. Today I found a pink toy car car with coloured windows, the Blondie song played in my head while I played with it. The car made me think of Denise but then I stopped playing with it...
Fire Engine
December 1976 I got this fire engine from Nanny Ethel and Grandad Wally for Christmas. When I grow up I’m going to be a fireman. The ladder got stuck and I asked Mummy to help me pull it out, she used her teeth and screamed because she broke her tooth on the ladder....
Batman
One of my favourite things is Batman. Batman dresses up like a bat. He lives in a cave. He drives a Bat Mobile, has a friend called Robin who helps him fight baddies. He also talks to a man called the conditioner who looks a lot like Grandad Plunkett. I think...