I am going to bring up Alan Moore twice in the top ten, his tacit endorsement of artist through his work made it acceptable for me to like them, even if they were too old to be normally acceptable to a teenager in the early 80s. Stephen Doubtfire had tried to persuade me that theContinue reading “It’s just a shot away”
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System Activated
One evening in the early 90s I sat down and read the three Miracleman graphic novels in one go – these were the ones published by Eclipse Comics that went out of print for two decades. This was Alan Moore’s other lost comic strip from Warrior, the first one being V For Vendetta (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/06/brain-and-body-melting/ )Continue reading “System Activated”
Brain and body melting
Sometimes you have to wait forever for something that you want. Forever is an elastic term though – at the age of 16 waiting a year for the next album by your favourite group can seem like forever, in your thirties waiting five years may seem reasonable (as long as they make a good album).Continue reading “Brain and body melting”
We Build a Tower of Stone
I learnt about Rainbow backwards. The first songs I heard were singles in 1981 from Difficult to Cure like I Surrender. I earned income babysitting in that last year in Royston and one of my clients was the Greening family – John Greening had their previous album Down To Earth (most famously featuring Since YouContinue reading “We Build a Tower of Stone”
I Want To Kiss Like Lovers Do
I know that gay rights were not invented in the 1980s, but that was when I first became aware of LGBTQ+ (not that it was called that then) people. In the 1970s I had a vague understanding that Mr Humphries on Are You Being Served was effeminate and it seemed to hint that he likedContinue reading “I Want To Kiss Like Lovers Do”
American Gothic
The second oldest song on the list. My love for Alan Moore’s work will crop up a few times here. He is the sage of Northampton and one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. An average cartoonist in the 70s he focussed on writing as the decade went on and into the 80s. Continue reading “American Gothic”
Five Miles Out 