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[zabadak]

It was excellent! It showed a lot about how it was put together, from an idea to a massive global jukebox. There were excerpts from a lot of the songs, rather than fully performed pieces, but it hung together really well. There were moments of pathos (e.g. Michael Buerk's film) and comic relief, like...

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The only thing like that we had was a set of boules, which I really enjoyed playing with

[zabadak]

I thought it was the absolute pinnacle of TV at the time, I really loved it!

[zabadak]

Yes, it was an amazing event. My partner and I went to see the musical theatre production based on it, called Just For One Day, which was absolutely brilliant!

[zabadak]

Very much, Hypnotised is one of my favourite albums! ...

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What was the name of the band?...

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Oh yes, I definitely bought into the post-punk thing as I discovered Peel in the late 70s! ...

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When I was at school in Middlesex, it was Chelsea. When we moved to Devon, either Liverpool or Arsenal (Man U weren't very successful then).

[zabadak]

"Let's get out there and **** it!"

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Same, although it was on the pitch when my team got promoted at the end of the season...

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I got into it in about 1979. I have minimal exposure to it before then but I just didn't get it. Once I did, that was it and now I love it.

[zabadak]

My mother liked Frank Sinatra but also Roy Orbison; my father introduced me to Los Paraguayos and general classical music

[zabadak]

I first used it at work. There was a film coming out, Velvet Goldmine, that I was interested in so I searched for it. It seems there was also a sex shop with that name so I had to tell people that was not what I was looking for!

[zabadak]

I sort of met Gary Numan signing copies of his latest CD but I guess that doesn't really count

[zabadak]

The entire "song" They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!, by Napoleon XIV (Jerry Samuels), was reversed for the B-side. The tile and all the wording was also mirrored on the label.

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[zabadak]

Red telephone, party line!

[zabadak]

No time for breakfast in the mornings but I would sometimes have it in the evening. Lunch could be anything dull, no chips, no foreign food, poor quality ingredients. I would like a hazelnut Ski yoghurt so badly right now though!

[zabadak]

"Yuppie" actually stood for "Young upwardly mobile".

I started working in 1984 in a bank in the City (in IT) so that whole thing went off in my face and I remember it well. There was big money to be made (by the banking people, not by me, although I can't complain as...

[zabadak]

The intro to the ELO tune Fire On High (an album track but also the B-side to their hit Livin' Thing) had some backwards masking (the actual term for it) at the beginning. The track is an instrumental except that there is a spoken intro which, when played backwards, was "The music is reversible...

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French and German but I dropped German before O Levels