Our family played a lot of board games. This was the 70s and early 80s when computer games might just about mean tennis being played by two sliding blocks on a TV screen or going to an arcade. A time of three TV channels. Long school holidays and wet weekends lead to boredom. We playedContinue reading “Now There’ll Be No Turning Back”
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All the Work Shutdown
Another one Michael likes. I mean really likes. We took exams at university seriously. Despite tutors saying that our failure would reflect worse on the admissions tutor than us, as Cambridge did not accept people who could fail. First year exams were particularly scary as we did not know what it would be like. So,Continue reading “All the Work Shutdown”
Have You Ever Had It Blue?
The mid 80s turned into a pretty barren period musically. After the regular injections of innovation from Punk, New Wave and New Romanticism mainstream popular music moved towards a fairly middle of the road approach. Do not even mention Jazz/Funk dance music – no one ever does because it is like muzak. The Style CouncilContinue reading “Have You Ever Had It Blue?”