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Greetings, Pop Pickers!
Hello all. The title of this post is used in honour of Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, whose radio shows helped develop my tastes for 'older' music (especially 'Pick of the Pops Take 2' on Capital Radio on Saturday mornings, back in the day).
As for me... born in 1968, an avid TV watcher as a kid and always a fan of listening to music. Early years were spent listening to Radio 1 exclusively (I can remember listening to Noel Edmonds on the Breakfast Show), until someone changed the dial on the old valve radio to Capital Radio and it remained the station of choice until I was 19.
Loved playing games too, card games, board games, computer games, outside games like football and cricket, plus classics like Hide And Seek, Feet Off London, 40-40, He-Ball, etc.
These days I am wholly disappointed with the tripe served up as entertainment on TV and the radio. Haven't really listened to the charts beyond 1994. TV is full up with nonsense. Too many soaps, daytime TV 'confessional programs' (any show that pulls members of the public up in front of a host and his/her audience for them to gasp at and poke fun at), a surfeit of 'Top 100' programs that masquerade as entertainment, or reality TV (pass me the sick bucket).
It's no wonder that when I found this site, it was almost a biblical experience!! Please keep contributing your memories and experiences, it's brilliant to read them and even greater if they trigger your own memories too.
As for me... born in 1968, an avid TV watcher as a kid and always a fan of listening to music. Early years were spent listening to Radio 1 exclusively (I can remember listening to Noel Edmonds on the Breakfast Show), until someone changed the dial on the old valve radio to Capital Radio and it remained the station of choice until I was 19.
Loved playing games too, card games, board games, computer games, outside games like football and cricket, plus classics like Hide And Seek, Feet Off London, 40-40, He-Ball, etc.
These days I am wholly disappointed with the tripe served up as entertainment on TV and the radio. Haven't really listened to the charts beyond 1994. TV is full up with nonsense. Too many soaps, daytime TV 'confessional programs' (any show that pulls members of the public up in front of a host and his/her audience for them to gasp at and poke fun at), a surfeit of 'Top 100' programs that masquerade as entertainment, or reality TV (pass me the sick bucket).
It's no wonder that when I found this site, it was almost a biblical experience!! Please keep contributing your memories and experiences, it's brilliant to read them and even greater if they trigger your own memories too.
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