MUSIC

“Slippery little suckers aren’t they?” I didn’t intend to start with a teaser this month but, like the snail, it simply jumped out and flew… Music first.  Dominating the singles chart was a strange item […]

“The hills are alive with the sound of music…”  Hah, no guessing what the big film was this month in ’65. But more of that later… Sitting at the top of the chart this month […]

Welcome to the new year of 2021 which holds such promise and hope for us all.  However, we’re not stopping because the time machine is warming up for this month’s adventure.  Oh look, we’re staying […]

From the fifties last month, we’ll take a giant step into the seventies where this November of 1977 threw up several items of interest.  Well, I hope you think so.  Let’s kick off with the […]

Hold on, we’re going back a decade this month into the fifties which will be a revelation on several levels with some interesting music that in a small way helped define the start of the […]

Last time we jumped into the future, but this month, we’re travelling backwards to the sixties when life was a whole lot easier to deal with simply because it was less complicated and demanding. When […]

I’ve jumped a decade into the future this month to land smack in the eighties to have a quick look/see at what’s going on. So, music first where Wham! dominated the singles chart with “The […]

Aping around during this recent lockdown wasn’t on my list of boxes to tick. As you can guess there were things that demanded attention but after flicking the duster around and re-arranging the book shelves, […]

The public’s taste in music this month in 1961 was varied with home grown artists competing against American interlopers who had no intention of disappearing without a fight.  The Brits held their own and for […]

The sun’s shining and, like so many others,  I’m in my fifth week of lockdown. While we’re all living through such unprecedented and tragic times, I thought I’m getting out of this decade for awhile […]