Current earworm. That’s what’ll bring more people back to High Streets - songs about shopping districts! youtu.be/J-3gk8mPs7k?...

Absolutely obsessed with that pen pic of someone who’s definitely not Ken, and Deirdre.

Merry Christmas!

A bonus door on #NeilsAdsventCalendar opens to reveal St Winifred's School Choir singing for the Co-op on Christmas Day 1981

Anyone fancy a drop of 45 year old Xmas beer?

I can’t let this pass without mentioning how rubbish the accompanying tv ads were. Debbie Webster from Corrie, rapping, there. youtu.be/k6hBa00mXXk?...

Amazed to find out that The Weather Girls did not always stick to rain as their preferred precipitation. youtu.be/Ko3yBFoTm5c?...

As its Christmas, I think it's time we all took a look at one of the best "worst" low budget promo videos of all time. Features, among other delights, Dennis Waterman being inappropriately suave with a deeply confused looking poodle. youtu.be/rl6f_U72izI?...

The University of Essex Library has marzipan busts of Roy Jenkins and David Owen in its SDP archive essexunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/f...

Who remembers the Banana Splits? Who remembers Cilla Black singing the theme tune? Oh my!

Eight years ago on this night, we were at Shepherd's Bush Empire watching Saint Etienne. Home Counties is a fabulous album - it was their finest in a long while - but the live show was...hit and miss. Still, MATT BERRY. www.realgonerocks.com/2017/12/real... #MusicSky

Currently listening to Songs In The Key Of Springfield. youtu.be/fI4bRqjobbw?...

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”

Our Show, LWT's by-kids-for-kids Saturday morning show of repute for untrained awkwardness, is joined today in 1977 by Stephanie De Sykes. One of her five - five! - questioners is Nicholas Lyndhurst. You may like to notice who De Sykes' fellow guest is.

Austria Salzburg midfielder Matthew Collins and his dad this past weekend

Top of the Pops (30th November 1978). It's time to crank up the dry ice as Mankind treat the Doctor Who theme to a disco beat.

I really enjoyed this excellent and very timely article on the Medway Towns’ many lost pubs, by Chris de Coulon Berthoud, and published by @localauthority.news #Bskybeer #Beersky open.substack.com/pub/localaut...

After they were dropped from #totp in favour of Zoo, Legs & Co were allowed to endorse and appear in ads, including for the Freemans mail order catalogue. One print media advert for Freemans contained quotes from the girls praising their service. Most were non descript. But here’s Lulu’s.

#RIPMani youtu.be/vY9g-PgSiGA?...

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Final Score had been using The Fall's Theme From Sparta FC as its theme for this season, so someone had the brainwave of getting Mark E Smith to read the classified results on the red button service part of the programme.

Gil Scott-Heron being the voiceover on the slogan of these ads is one of my favourite ever facts, alongside his dad being the first black player to play for Celtic.

‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads

The Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club X #TwoShowsInOne

I absolutely loved this album. Interesting fact: whilst on the Stylus imprint, the BBC logo is very prominent - the music is all from shows that were being broadcast on their channels at the time. So when the album was advertised on ITV, including during Coronation Street, it was very unusual.

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BBC1 schedule for today in 1988. Apparently, the working title of Wyatt’s Watchdogs was changed at the last minute from Every Street Should Have One as it was showing directly after Coronation Street on ITV and before Streets Apart… 🤔

Surprising songs that Smash Hits reproduced lyrics for: Capstick Comes Home By Tony Capstick and the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band (April 2 - 15 1981 edition)

Which Lionel wrote for an ad for the then Abbey National Building Society. And he appeared in the ad too. youtu.be/p9qJtmw2c5U?...

Surprising songs that Smash Hits reproduced lyrics for: Kill The Poor by The Dead Kennedys (November 13-26 1980 edition)

Mia Wallace & Gromit As requested by Paul Savage

Today in 1980, Brian Clough appeared on Parkinson, ostensibly to promote this new release: youtu.be/FewaTqfw7oc?...

It’s never too early to see Angela Merkel ironing her Christmas gift wrap. www.granger.com/0188584-ange...

Ian McCulloch, Gary Wilmot and Stephen Fry

The best response that the BBC could give to Donald Trump's threat to sue is simply to refer the orange blimp to the reply given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram

This Pickwick effort is really just Endless Flight in a slightly different order with the same cover + Thunder In My Heart & Raining In My Heart as a bonus, thus making this Leo’s best album.

On the one hand it’s useful to have a reasoned and measured debate on the perceived bias inherent in BBC news, on the other hand Donald Trump is a cunt.

"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"

40 years old this week.

1 like = 1 old British TV jingle (until I run out)

It’s that time of year when everyone can enjoy traditional dishes, such as Giant Yorkshire Pork @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (9th November 1989). The latest teenage craze is a rather unexpected one. And Pete Murray has a complaint from 1960.

There’s something deeply Freudian about this.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk