three and nine? (A Roxy Music question...)

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The Roxy Music song "Three and Nine"--

I get that 3 and 9 was the cost of a movie ticket, and 3 & 9 to 45--from movies to music.

But what about "if you warm to centigrade," and what about "6 and 2 3's now," etc.

Anyone know anything?

― magnet, Saturday, 13 March 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Just wanted to tweak the subject line a touch to alert the Roxy loving hordes. Also because I remembered something about how "Do the Strand" was allegedly part inspired by a fifties UK TV ad campaign for Strand cigarettes, supposedly featuring a moody image of a lonely feller out on the town with just his Strand for companionship.

And behold! Such was the case -- here's a photograph from the ad campaign which practically screams Bryan Ferry-via-Sinatra:

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adverts/strand.jpg

...while the page it's from, here, has a brief clip of it, more information about the ad campaign, and various other fifties era TV commercials from the UK. Fun stuff!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 March 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Who knew the Brits had television in the 50's?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 13 March 2004 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

We didn't have juice till the sixties. No kidding.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 13 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned: via Tom Ewell in 'The Girl Can't Help It.'

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 March 2004 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Who knew the Brits had television in the 50's?

I know, we only invented it and then had the world's first televison broadcasting service - but I always imagined by the 50s we'd got bored of it and gone back to magic lantern shows, music hall and rousing renditions of Gilbert & Sullivan round the piano in the parlour.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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