Today’s blog-post is about R.G Jones Studios in Wimbledon.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/the-studios-of-london-r-g-jones-studios/
Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Today’s blog-post is about R.G Jones Studios in Wimbledon.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/the-studios-of-london-r-g-jones-studios/
Today’s blog is about Nomis Studios:
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/the-studios-of-london-nomis-studios/
I’ve been dipping into the TV Cream website for many years now – they style themselves as a 70s & 80s pop culture repository and though they can veer into the “Spangles & Chopper bikes” nostalgia zone, I mostly find them pleasingly irreverent…
Years ago they published a top 100 singles list, and have recently updated it… they’re not clear on how it was arrived at, though the comments clearly indicate some kind of voting system, but it’s a pleasingly bonkers celebration of 70s/80s pop & rock, and probably more diverse than many “cooler” charts out there… I’d also wager there’ll be a few “blimey, I’d forgotten about that” moments to be had too, especially in the YT clips they provide…
It might just be a bit too-uncool-for-school for us Afterworders, but I’d like to think it might also be a bit of an antidote to the angst-y handwringing we can sometimes be guilty of in analysing our listening likes & dislikes…
Top 10 in the comments (the number 1 might raise a few eyebrows), and the whole list is at the link, enjoy and have at it (and remember, don’t have nightmares…)
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/category/pop/100-greatest-singles-ever/
For whatever reason certain names from the world of sport never seem to crop up anymore, whether through underachievement at the time or perhaps a subsequent misdemeanour. They may be minor figures you half-remember from childhood for instance.
I’m going to kick off with the 70s tennis player Buster Mottram, a great American name only lessened by the fact he was English. Shame about his politics.