My mate Gav is a musician and posted this on his FB page ... scary stuff .... could be most of the millionaire pop divas and absolutely no reality anywhere near it!
Remembering Pete presenting The Six Five Special, the first UK TV popular music show covering Rock and Roll and Skiffle...If you remember skiffle and beatnicks you must be as old as I... (-:
I remember seeing Bill Haley singing Rock Around The Clock, and Nancy Whiskey singing Freight train... Jeez, where did all the time go...?
My parents didn't have a TV, so I watched Six Five Special (and the Lone Ranger) on my grandparents' TV. The longcase clock in their hall now sits in our dining room. Happy memories.
Peter 2009 3-litre Roadster "Ivor", royal ivory / green
Richard, as best I can remember 208 was the frequency, and by chance the extension number of the flying club at my local airport, where the Triumph car club used to meet once a month... (-:
L.o.t.w.... Exactly the same situation for me as our weekly visit to my grandparents coincided with the night that The Six Five Special prog was on TV, one of my uncles raced a Gold Star at the time and I also remember the chap lighting the gas street lamps ... Jeez, that must have been around the mid 50`s..???