A cross from Big Fat John Robertson. A footballer whose career was going nowhere until Clough and Taylor saw “something”.
It is still a remarkable feat to go from near the bottom of Division 2 to Eurpean […]

So the original question asked for the most popular names in song, and we end up go for the more obscure little used names

Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

Joyce may not be a particularly popular name, but there is this one

Half Man Half Biscuit – Ode To Joyce

Emily

Pink Floyd – See Emily Play

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Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily (Wherever I May Find Here)

Kaiser Chiefs – offering the affirmative to the Beach Boys negative

(say what you like, I still think their debut album is fine disc of shiny metal)

And more GP
Local Girls

In a perfect world, Sparks would’ve released an album in 1979 titled Stretching Graham Parker

and another Irene

The Photos

Could Alice be considered as a diminutive form?
If yes, we could add Elvis Costello’s Alison

Sally
She’s got a Mustang, has been asked to lay down, and waited whilst standing next to a fireplace.
Probably done quite a bit more too.

Jesus and Mary Chain
PychoCandy and Some Candy Talking

Although those might refer to a different “Candy”

Candy came from Miami FLA, hitchhiked her way across the USA

It was this same Candy who was the inspiration for Lola

Tiswas Urban Myth: on one show, the Phantom Flan Flinger was (a diguised) Robert Plant.
Other identities for the ghostly pie chucker include Jim Davidson

The last series of Fawlty Towers aired.
And Comedy went through something of a revision with the birth of Alternative Comedy with the opening of The Comedy Store in Soho, and the first broadcast of Not The Nine O’clock News

1979 was also the last outing for Derek & Clive – it may have been recorded in late 78, but wasn’t officially banned until 1979

Film-wise:
The Big Names: Alien, Kramer vs Kramer, Apocalypse Now, 10 and The Jerk
Not hailed by Hollywood, but thoroughly deserving: Life Of Brian, Quadrophenia, Scum

Not only did 1979 produce many of my […]

But who wants to the the Disco King

A minor hit in the UK (actually not even Top 40), but performed well elsewhere.
Marianne Faithful – Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

Seen it about 4 million times – never get bored of it. It really is a masterpiece and eminently quotable in just about any given situation

The Friday Night, Saturday Morning debate is worth a watch.
John Cleese tries to explain the film (in the tones of an exasperated lawyer) to an un-listening Bishop of Southwark and Malcolm Muggeridge, while […]

Apparently there are still some local authorities with a ban in force preventing any we-welease being shown in local cinemas