[Music] 1970/80's Music Question

[The Large One]

Forget labels just enjoy the music

Fundamentally, I agree with you.

However, it's good - and maybe even rare - that someone wants to research or consider British cultural history over the past 50-60 years.

On YouTube, there are a number of 'reviewers' who are listening to songs or bands they've not only never heard, or they've never even heard of them. And by them I mean The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Carole King, The Carpenters, The Hollies, ELO, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Queen, Eric Clapton etc... Now I'm not saying everyone should be au fait with everything - of course not. But for most of these reviewers, they draw a complete blank. Nada.

Somewhere, somehow, post-war culture is not being passed down the generations. At all.

 

[The Large One]

No it didn't, unless you are saying he was accessing Child Porn to research his own life?

He didn't access child porn.

One - that was established as fact
Two - to repeat that claim could leave [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] in a whole heap of shite.

 

[Insel affe]

Always found the second time around Mod movement a bit sad. Why couldn't they have thought of something new?

Have to admit at the time I did admire the Rocker style and wore an open face crash helmet and goggles when riding my Norton...

Ha, Mods were our sworn enemies during the 80s as youth as a rockabilly/psychobilly and later a scooter boy,
I have no issue with them liking music from the past, as so do i, but Mod means or stood for Modernism and to move forward from the past.
They should have been called Neo Mods, just like the rockabilly bands of the 80s were called Neo Rockabilly.

I hated the Mods, on a street level, in their parkers and mop head haircuts, shiney scooters with mirrors, that's why for a brief few years I jumped on the scooter boy crazy, because it so much more fun, army combats, flat top, at the rallies you would have Desmond Decker, followed by Tenpole Tudor, Bad Manners and then The Meteors a right mix.

Now I look back on those days with fondness and can respect their style and music, but not back then, they were show off posers

 

[Baldseagull]

He didn't access child porn.

One - that was established as fact
Two - to repeat that claim could leave [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] in a whole heap of shite.

He was cautioned for using his credit card to access a Child Porn website, he accepted the caution and was placed on the sex offenders register for 5 years.
I do not understand how accessing a child porn website was useful to write his own memoirs.

 

[The Large One]

He was cautioned for using his credit card to access a Child Porn website, he accepted the caution and was placed on the sex offenders register for 5 years.

Yes he was. But he never accessed any pornographic images. That, as I said, has now been established as fact.

I do not understand how accessing a child porn website was useful to write his own memoirs.

Well, if you carry on waiting for his book to come out, you never will. But then again, I suspect you don't really want to know.

The book came out in 2012.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

ooooh yes

 

[dejavuatbtn]

The book came out in 2012, which how little you paid attention to the story, and how much you wanted to pretend to be a bit edgy.

Of which I am the proud owner of a signed copy.

 

[Baldseagull]

Yes he was. But he never accessed any pornographic images. That, as I said, has now been established as fact.



Well, if you carry on waiting for his book to come out, you never will. But then again, I suspect you don't really want to know.

The book came out in 2012.

Pete Townshend "As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material readily available on the internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research towards the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the internet, but especially any involving child abuse."

Please tell me the title of the book he published in 2012 that fits his own description, at the time of the caution he received, of why he was paying to access a website containing child abuse images.

Apologies to all for the derailment.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Pete Townshend "As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material readily available on the internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research towards the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the internet, but especially any involving child abuse."

Please tell me the title of the book he published in 2012 that fits his own description, at the time of the caution he received, of why he was paying to access a website containing child abuse images.

Apologies to all for the derailment.

After all his years of musical confessions, Pete Townshend still has secrets to get off his chest. And in Who I Am, he finally lets loose. His long-awaited memoir is intensely intimate, candid to the point of self-lacerating. It’s a rock god opening up his most human frailties. Throughout the book, Townshend makes himself uncomfortably vulnerable, especially in his deeply saddening memories of childhood sexual abuse. He sees those early years as emblematic of his postwar English generation, left parentless, at the mercy of predators. He turned this trauma into the 1969 breakthrough Tommy. Those feelings of rage, shame and inadequacy never left him, even after he fought his way to the top of the music world.

 

[Icy Gull]

Whenever I hear the term Mod, my immediate thought is always

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Which is exactly what Weller was aspiring to be be imo

 

[BN9 BHA]

I saw this on Twitter this week.

 

[Eeyore]

No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No..

Yes

 

[Comrade Sam]

Which is exactly what Weller was aspiring to be be imo

Weller loved the Small Faces. Whilst in early footage Weller windmills like Townsend, his style and image evolved into Marriott and he played a beautiful tribute to him on the box after his death.

 

[Birdie Boy]

I remember a conversation with my uncle when I was about 15, 37 years ago and he insisted the jam weren't mods and I insisted they were. I still think I'm right.