Where does one sign up for a week or two in 1994?
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Llamas like eating Christmas trees.
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chuck lorre - the same guy who brought us terrible american sitcoms like ātwo and a half menā and āthe big bang theoryā - wrote debbie harryās jam āfrench kissināā.
(maybe YOU knew this, but itās news to me).
edit, i canāt believe i spelled debbieās name wrong.
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DJ Nature, formerly Nature Boy- intends to rename himself again- as DJ Mature, on reaching retirement age.
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We live in troubling times. Fact.
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Somebody should tell David Kid Jansen about this.
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Heās now David āKidā Pension.
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There you go.
One of my favourite little fun facts was that the guy behind the Mobile Suit Corporation label who launched the careers of both Sheila Chandra/Monsoon and Vicious Pink, got Trio in the charts with āDa Da Daā and also put out the great Tokyo Mobile Music comp (featuring Akiko Yano and Yukihiro Takahashi among others) was a bloke called David Claridge, who later found fame and fortune as Roland Rat
More info on him here - he was one of the Blitz gangā¦
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He mustāve been so disappointed when he realized he was going to die.
Haha yes,
Itās weird that a Christian dont want to die eventually.
I can add that some claim the program is still active. With russian elite doing blood transfusions reguraly.
Holly Johnson and his manager were both booked onto PanAm Flight 103 but got stuck in traffic en route to Heathrow and missed it by 15 minutes
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The four tops were almost on it too. But something happened on top of the pops that meant they didnāt get on it.
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John Lydon and his wife also missed the flight. Why he got so angry in the jungle when they wouldnāt let him speak to her to confirm sheād got to Oz okā¦
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Worked with a guy that was a helicopter refueller and got seconded up to Lockerbie in the aftermath, clearing up the ādebrisā, never recovered from the trauma he said, hates Christmas to this day.
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Yes- that was it. I knew it was someone really familiar, but Iād forgotten who it was and Google came up with the four tops.
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We were on our way to Shoreham Airshow in 2015, the kids were faffing about and made us late, in the end we ran into loads of traffic, had to turn around and go home. Turns out it was this, which we would have been right under if weād left on time. 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash - Wikipedia
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Fuck. Yeah I remember that! Blows my mind they let air shows happen TBH
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Who?
The dog or Fedorov?
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