and jayne casey - she of the brilliant beep boop post punk pink military/pink industry.
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And important artistic/music director in Liverpool. I first knew her through her involvement in (the nightclub) Cream.
Here’s a good article if anyone’s curious about her wider role in Liverpool nightlife.
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She’s Liverpool royalty.
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WD40 stands for Water Displacement 40th Formula
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GT-85 is the true GOAT of lubricant sprays though 
Sure, but never got me a second date
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@sam_b 's comment got me thinking about Nicolette Larson. Apparently she dated ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic in the 80s and he based his parody “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” on her style 
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That’s a parody of Extreme’s ‘more than words’ I reckon. Right down to Nuno’s nail varnish 
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I hadn’t realised she had died so young.
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The Shining was one of the highest-grossing films of 1980, but also was a supreme example of Stanley Kubrick’s reputation for outsize expenditures of time and resources.
An average ratio of film shot to final cut was then around 10:1. For The Shining, it was 102:1.
Nicked from review of a new book on him by Robert Kolker which sounds great. Crossing over as many thread topics as possible here!
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The theme tune to Some Mothers do ‘ave ‘em is the letters of the title spelled in morse code.
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These are the facts that I’m here for!
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The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dali
The biggest recorded sunflower ever grown was 9.17m tall
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Def Leppard took inspiration from Burundi Black for 1987’s hit single “Rocket”.
I’d been hanging out with somebody in Holland who had been playing me “Burundi Black,” which has this immensely hypnotic African drum pattern. It really got under my skin and sucked me in. It reminded me of when I was 12 and I went to this children’s disco and “Rock and Roll Part 2” came on.
The “Burundi Black” thing was just a much more rustic, urban, natural version of that. So I borrowed it off that friend and made a loop of the actual drum pattern. I started putting chords on top of it, and that turned into what is now the chorus of this song. Then we all bashed it into shape as a piece of music.
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They beat the Dust Brothers and the Beasties to that loop then?
Might be Def Leppard where they heard it? 
Before them was Adam Ant & Bow Wow Wow, no?
Sheffield - Always ahead of everyone 
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