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Richard Brooks
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Hello, Good Evening, Welcome...to nothing much. Music. Comedy. Beer. #cafc. Travelling On Buses. Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs. Tawdry Roberts.
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Hello! Please feel free to follow me on Spotify for all of your 70s, 80s and now 90s bangers playlist need - plus other random playlists.

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The way that Bobby Ball delivers the “Ra da da da da” parts on both occasions in this clip, to the chagrin of his comedy partner, has stayed with me for a very very long time.

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January 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Criminally, this got zero airplay, so the first time I heard it was on the 10th Feb ‘91 when it finally entered the top 40 at number 39. It would get no higher.
January 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Drink responsibly.
January 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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The 25th Annual TV Week Logie Awards - Dennis Waterman (TNT-9, 1983) : 350s
January 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Current earworm. That’s what’ll bring more people back to High Streets - songs about shopping districts!

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Central Milton Keynes - You've Never Seen Anything Like It
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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January 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Pilot - January • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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January 1, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Absolutely obsessed with that pen pic of someone who’s definitely not Ken, and Deirdre.
TV Times listing (27th December 1982)
December 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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A bonus door on #NeilsAdsventCalendar opens to reveal St Winifred's School Choir singing for the Co-op on Christmas Day 1981
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Anyone fancy a drop of 45 year old Xmas beer?
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I can’t let this pass without mentioning how rubbish the accompanying tv ads were. Debbie Webster from Corrie, rapping, there.

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December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Amazed to find out that The Weather Girls did not always stick to rain as their preferred precipitation.

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The Weather Girls - Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man This Christmas)
YouTube video by TheWeatherGirlsVEVO
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December 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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As its Christmas, I think it's time we all took a look at one of the best "worst" low budget promo videos of all time. Features, among other delights, Dennis Waterman being inappropriately suave with a deeply confused looking poodle.
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DENNIS WATERMAN - I Could Be So Good For You (1979)
YouTube video by Classic Sounds 70s
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December 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The University of Essex Library has marzipan busts of Roy Jenkins and David Owen in its SDP archive essexunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/f...
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Twisted Wheel
YouTube video by Chris Rea - Topic
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December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
LFO - LFO (Official Video)
YouTube video by Warp Records
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December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Who remembers the Banana Splits? Who remembers Cilla Black singing the theme tune? Oh my!
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Eight years ago on this night, we were at Shepherd's Bush Empire watching Saint Etienne. Home Counties is a fabulous album - it was their finest in a long while - but the live show was...hit and miss. Still, MATT BERRY.

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REAL GONE GOES OUT: Saint Etienne – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London 9/12/2017 | Real Gone
www.realgonerocks.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Currently listening to Songs In The Key Of Springfield.

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The Simpsons - The Stonecutters song
YouTube video by kentuckyfriedpanda1
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December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Our Show, LWT's by-kids-for-kids Saturday morning show of repute for untrained awkwardness, is joined today in 1977 by Stephanie De Sykes. One of her five - five! - questioners is Nicholas Lyndhurst. You may like to notice who De Sykes' fellow guest is.
Stephanie De-Sykes "Our Show" Kids Interview
with Nicholas Lyndhusrt & David Jason
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Austria Salzburg midfielder Matthew Collins and his dad this past weekend
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Top of the Pops (30th November 1978). It's time to crank up the dry ice as Mankind treat the Doctor Who theme to a disco beat.
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM