PLease check this out-the greatest website EVAH!

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PLease try this website www.yearsofgold.org.uk

Its either the most elaborate hoax since the Hitler diaries or a genuine music fan. Nigel reviews every record in the charts since 1973. So full of pathos, sadness, untrammelled energy and brief moments of insight. GASP as Nigel loses his cat, CHEER as he burgles a chip shop, SWOON as he chats up "birds"in his pub to the strains of "making plans for Nigel". Every record tells a story for Nigel. THis is surely what the internet is for. Move over Ned, I have a new hero. Here are a couple of examples, but there are hundreds>>>>>

3.Kim Wilde Kids In America Most people of my age would not have known of the existence of Kim's father'Marty Wilde'. I did because my Mum had been a fan of his and had even seen him perform live a couple of times. She had three of his singles "Donna","Sea Of Love" and his unbeatable version of "Endless Sleep". Marty's son "Ricky" attempted to make it as a singer in the mid '70s, but had failed miserably. So he turned his talents to helping his father write songs for his younger sister "Kim" (Actually, I can think of quite a few talented songwriters who ought to follow his example and give their songs to someone who can actually sing. But people seem to tolerate this, even if they are just looking ).

And so Kim just seemed to explode onto the chart and seemed to be a permanent resident in the chart for well over a year. Naturally, when we all saw what she looked like, we either loved or hated her. The women hated her (at least to begin with) and many wrote angry letters to the Record Mirror letters page. One such letter sticks in my mind as the nasty wench in question wrote "I bet she's never even been to America". As it turned out she was right, as Kim recently revealed in a TV interview. But what did that matter anyway, I bet Midge Ure had never been to Vienna ? Kim spent two weeks at number two with this and followed it with a further 16 top 40 hits before the decade ended, more than any other British female soloist in the eighties. She is now apparently a gardener, just as I was when she first hit big.

34 Police Six Pack Not content with having five big hit singles in just over a year, they had to release the lot of them all over again. But with the added bonus of an extra single, namely "The Bed's Too Big Without You". Personally, I think that was the best track of the lot, but this fan fleecing exercise was way out of order. Incredibly, it sold enough to reach number 17. The expression Six Pack is used in a different way these days of course. But what exactly a six pack is on a male torso I don't know. I may have one, I may not. That's the trouble with new words and expressions that come into the English Language. We're just expected to know what they mean, and if we just see the words in print before we've heard them, we're expected to know how to pronounce them. Take 'Modem', I was on-line for over a year before I knew the correct way of pronouncing that, I was pronouncing it the obvious way. I think that everyone speaking the English language ought to have a newsletter with all new words and expressions explained and delivered free of charge every week.

PaulK, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen this before, it is astonishing. Every now and then you come across some really dark chapter of his life, which he's handily collated, complete with his trademark perky pop commentaries.

Spandau Ballet - True

They'd already failed with one ballad "She Loved Like Diamond", but they were never going to fail with this one. Out went the silly clothes and in came the suits for this smoochy ballad, the title track from their third album. Easily one of the best singles of the decade, I just wonder why they left it so late to release it (the third track to be lifted from the album). Had it been released before Christmas, Renee & Renato would have been completely forgotten about by now and would not be featured in various top ten shows. After entering at the extremely high position of ten, it went straight to the top where it reigned for four weeks.

I bought the 12 inch of this in the week that I was discharged from hospital. I noticed straight away that the words "Pill on my tongue" were printed on the back.

Bloody hell.

Mike Ratford, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Move over Ned, I have a new hero.

*cries* But truly this person inhabits a world of his own.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Read the entry for the "This week in 1978" chart listing for The Sweet's "Love is like oxygen" He appears to hold himself responsible for the deaths of both Brian Connolly and Mick Tucker!

This web site is absolutely fucking awesome! Thank you, thank you PaulK.

Kris England, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

He's like a DJ Martian from backwards land!

dan, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

He has his own charts with positions determined by real charts plus three random throws of the dice, and statistics documenting movement within these special charts!

American equivalent=inconceivable.

dan, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeeeeeezzz... and i thought Mike Reid and Tim Rice were sad cnuts.......

Essential reading tho'...

Baxter Wingnut, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

True that 1985's 'Live Aid'concert was one of the greatest moments in musical history

wow.

Omar, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Have y'all seen the book "To Major Tom The Bowie Letters"? It's actually fictional but done as if one boy is writing letters to Bowie from the '70s on and covers quite a bit of the British music scene. By Dave Thompson

Mary, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

7 Muppets Halfway Down The Stairs

Kermit The Frog introduced this as an A.A. Milne poem being sang by his nephew "Robin" (the voice of Jerry Nelson). Kermit had first found fame in the UK due to his appearances on "Sesame Street". I used to watch that show on Saturday mornings while I was still at Primary School. I can't think about Sesame Street without thinking about those new fangled 'Toast Toppers' that I always had for my breakfast on Saturdays. They were basically a can of sick that you spread on lightly toasted bread before putting back under the grill for a couple of minutes. It probably wasn't very good for human consumption, but these days establishments such as Pizza Hut are making a fortune out of the concept. This single was backed with "Mah Na Mah Na" and reached number seven.

Zanny G, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

After spending a few hours trawling this site I have come to the conclusion that Nigel, while being obsessive to the point of illness is also a sensitive and deeply honest guy with a pretty good, self depreciating, observational sense of humour (read the bit about Cliff Richard's Devil woman for a top Cliff/Students observation).

But some of it is deeply uncomfortable reading, esp regarding his suicide attempts and his struggles with women.

I stand by my original comments though, this is a truly awesome website and I can't help but feel, when considering the depths of my own music obsession and how I myself used to construct my own top 40 until well into my teens with a very similar although more complicated method of calculation, there but for the grace of god.

Kris England, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
This thread deserves a revive.

Key link: http://www.yearsofgold.org.uk/rememberarchive.html

God I love this site. He hasn't updated for a while. I hope he's OK.

retort pouch (retort pouch), Sunday, 12 October 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)


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