I don't really remember the individual strips tbh, I just remember a lot of war stories! They were quite bloodthirsty though I think

I also remember some pop magazines used to give out free floppy vinyl records sometimes - usually in luminous colours.

You know, GJ, that's not the first time people have made comments which make me think I'm older than I am  And yes, I know this hasn't come out the right way, but you know what I mean

Oh yeah! I remember those. Wow flash back.

Also hiya veg n rzb! If we talk about teenage years then Sounds and Melody Maker!

What I couldn't of flogged that for in the play ground ,


My sister went to a 70's show recently and Les McKeownwas on the bill, it wasn't a big event,
She rang me the next day to say all her dreams of him sweeping her off her feet had been dashed when he got the same bus home as her, and never had a tooth in his head, He even asked her for a fag.

Sponngggeeeyyyyy xxxxxxx We can't go on meeting like this
RZB


What i remember about Disco 45 was the cheap paper it was printed on, how the mag was a different colour every issue - which I think was every two weeks although I could be wrong - and the crossword.
It was a real down market version of Smash Hits but we loved having the words so we could sing along!

Oh, you're scarin me now!

Ello Joe xxx
I always found Melody Maker a bit heavy for me, Record Mirror was bit of an inbetweenie type music rag as I remember

  Did she have to light it for him

PMSL!!!         and ello everyone who's arrived in the thread

 Hi Veggie

Hahahaha I still have a plastic Band of Gold by Freda Payne - in gold!!

Yes I remember Sounds Joe,
One of my first jobs when leaving school was as a messenger on Melody Maker, it was just 2 weeks cover for the full time guy, It was late 70's , The Damned were very popular at the time,
Is it still going ? They were always battling against the NME in those days,

 - I used to love him when I was about 4 years old - but Donny had the edge for me at that time.

we used to have a booth in bournemouth bus station where you could make your own record.......me an my sister were always in there convinced we were going to make THE record and be superstars........

Jellus

Hi Monkey  Son went up to the Liverpool game, missed his coach back to London and had to get the train home so he could be back for work
another 66 quid on top of the cost of the day  he'd have been better off watching the Arsenal with me and his brother!


Ello Onetoo and everyone else xx

Yes! Hello everyone! Did anyone else's pushy parents foist Look and Learn upon them?

She said she felt sorry for him, and couldn't stop thinking of the time she queued for about 14 hours to get tickets to see him back in 1975,  How the mighty have fallen,

Oh no! Thats awful! Did he enjoy the match?

definately looking gumsy!!

It is a bit sad. Maybe we'll see him on x factor 

I remember that Joe, real doctors surgery material,   One thing I never got into that some mates did was the Spider Man type comics, Could never see the fascination,

Was anyone a paper boy or paper girl? My parents wouldn't let me, I kept falling off my bike.

Yeah he always does! He went to about 6-8 games last season and it's always a nightmare with the coaches as they either get him there in the early hours of the morning or he has to get across Manchester in half an hour on match day - and you know that's not happening!

Oh the things we did when we were young

I loved Les McKeown then when I was about 18 he used to bring his Range Rover to a garage I worked in. He was really nice to me when he heard I was a fan, brought me pics and little bits and bobs.


He really hasn't aged well though and I think he's had bad money problems like they all had. I seem to remember he lived in Essex Road in Islington

I know of it GJ, but wasn't subjected to it. I could have it if I wanted

Yes! I was a paperboy! The shop was an absolute Goldmine of material. I will read anything even to this day. Even those publications which I openly criticise.

yep....i used to do a paper round round canford cliffs which is the posh part of where i live.......one year i got over a fiver in tips at christmas which was hoooooooooooge money back then for a kid!!....our parents made us give it up after that poor lad carl bridgewater got shot and killed on his round...

.............for sure!!!

*Puts hand up* ME! I think I got about £4.20 for mornings, nights, and Sundays  Mind you, I used to deliver to my own house so stopped off on the way for a cuppa

Cor you were posh Spongey.


We had to make do with cleaning caravans at Rockley Sands on a Saturday morning - 60p for a 6 berth caravan. If you were really quick you could do 4 in a morning.
Most people left them like pigstys

I remember having some of them free floopy records, they wouldn't  always play on our turntable, to get them to play you had to place a coin on the disc to weight it down, One I had was an interview with Marc Bolan.

 Talk about a trip down memory lane eh. Arrrh the good old days. 

I went there! Can remember me and my family sharing this huge caravan.

I remeber when a single record was ten bob, (50p) and a LP was £2.
We used to go to Jones & Higgins in Peckham and asked to listen to track in a booth with head phones on, We never ever bought the song,  Just wasting time.

First single I bought was 50p "I love to boogie" by T Rex..

YAY! we had one called the Handy Shop. You could exchange records there