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Hello peeps Deborah has Flu! So I’ve been sat in bed 2 days now catching up on all things Harley :-)
Being totally bored I went to my favourite place on here the 73-75 reveiws and clippings.
I did smile whilst reading Austin John Marshalls review in the 1973 NME's 20th Octobers issue.
He described A rainy Saturday back in 73 in a bleak brick building that was Readings Teachers training Collage, where Cockney Rebel had their first head lining Gig :-)
yay ! at the Teachers Training Collage in the Theatre lecture's Hall.
Human Menagerie was their debut Album due to be released early the following month, November.
I then realised “oh my god “ this November 2012 ( NOT LONG NOW ) we will all be sat in a Hall with that very first Album being played out in such a style , that one could only dream of, way back then.
I wonder if any of them trainee teachers that where in that hall will be at Birmingham. I’m sure there must be!
I’d have to wait 6 month before Cockney Rebel came to St Albans. I hadn’t even heard of them till Judy teen hit the air waves.
I can still remember picking up my copy of June 29th 1974 NMEs in my Mum n Dads shop and reading about the gig in Dunstable and so wished I’d known that they had been staying at the Esso Hotel in Dunstable befor hand . Where they did the interview, (I’d defiantly of bunked of school)
Richard Amos was their tour manager way back then, and John Crocker said whilst lunching at the Esso Hotel , the audience didn’t really appreciate his input, he said nothing excited him about the audience ! (His girlfriend was present! glaring apparently lol ) he said " even if they were going mad, they wasn’t going mad at anything he did ! “
Ha if only he knew? That violin was always special!
Anyway! seeing’s all my scrap books where all demoted from the loft to the shed ( without my knowledge ) to make way for more rooms ( we had a loft conversion ) for more babies back in 89-90.
resulting in my priceless treasure’s ( all my Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel press and magazine cuttings and fan club stuff )left to the perils of mice and mould ! Huh! Not of MICE N MEN!
I still get the right hump, even now :-(
But :-) I’m happy to come here and see all that I treasured and lost to the depths of the garden shed still survive here :-) for all to recall.
It makes a miserable day quite nice after all.
love it
Thanks Pete and everyone who shared their stuff here its amazing what you remember and what you never forget
Great post Debs!
What price those Scrapbook's now eh?
