Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman 1977

The Saturday rock show was de rigeur. Playing album tracks only, it gave us a chance to go further than the normal daytime playlist that was the usual fare of Radio One $0.00

Brian Matthew

For over 17 years Brian Matthew was the Saturday morning voice of Radio 2. His sounds of the 60’s programme was entertaining but most of all informative with his unrivalled knowledge of the period coming to the fore. $0.00

Johnnie Walker

The king of BBC radio 2 is Johnnie Walker. His superb 2 hour Sunday afternoon show Sounds of the 70’s is just what is needed after a good lunchtime session in the local. Rock on Johnnie ! $0.00

I get to meet my hero!

In November 2014 Johnnie Walker performed his Musical Milestones show at Alnwick playhouse. I was able to meet up with him after the show. In July 2017, having organised a major reunion I found myself unable to attend it. The guys were great and contacted Johnnie for me on his show. Here is the result ! $0.00

1970’s Music Quite simply the greatest decade EVER. No other era even comes close. Read on and see how many of these albums you had!

The greatest album of the 1970’s. Released on April 28th 1972 it’s genius has never been surpassed.

Pink Floyd’s 1977 masterpiece is better than Dark Side of the Moon and Wish you Were Here. The soundtrack of our last PGS summer.

Led Zeppelin’s double album from 1975. The zenith of their work and the soundtrack to our 1975.

YOUR seventies memories..follow the arrow.

YOUR seventies memories have been combined into one continuous sentence. These are verbatim with only one name changed to protect the innocent. These were collected originally in 2002….

So maybe an early T-Rex or Slade song from 1971, Tony Blackburn’s breakfast show then Johnnie Walker on Radio One, Les Crane from 1972, CCF annual camp in Okehampton 1973, Life on Bastard Mars played non stop at Okehampton , Leek, Sennybridge, Folkestone, Catterick, Elton & Kiki from the long, long hot summer of 1976, cold Saturdays at Hilsea, Uriah Heep, amazing parties in Gosport, your first car, kiss, fight, sports day, double maths with Ron Vearncombe, Browndown, Fell & Bottle, The Pembroke, rugby, cricket, athletics at Alexandra park, model railway club, Bleed for history, Neal H skipping lunch to copy down the radio One (on 247 metres MW), carol services and carrying blue chairs down the high street, The Dolphin, a quick fag in the bogs, Vic Hampton, Bomber, The Duke of Buckingham, Cox, I want Cox, Hooting noises, flatulence, Leo Sayer, Party fours, Players No 10, Macs shop with steak and onion pies at 7p each, Doreen Waterworth, Spike Aylemore, excellent specimen, no jeering, hair must be neat, well groomed and not come down below the collar, Bell record label, Gary Glitter, Sugar White, Lambrettas, Bukkake films, David Moss-Bowpitt, Sutherland brothers and Quiver, Leek Light Infantry, Podsols, Ranch House, Bedford Truck, Melody Maker, NME, Pink Floyd, David Cassidy, Mary Cassidy, Blue Peter with Lesley Judd, The Stacey sisters, K-Tel records, Smiths in Palmerston Road, Afghan coats, HMV in commercial road, flipping through progressive, Rizla Wheatstraw, Spice island in Osborne Road, HSB, Prize old Ale mixed with HSB(!), Shirt King, Tricorn, Pennine way, Fell and Bottle, The Village, Hellraiser for jeans, D’artagnan (Marmion Road), 5 park drive, Fratton Park, Banned from the common, Billy Manning’s, South Parade Pier gigs, Nero’s, Joanna’s, Trolley buses, Marina café, Southdown buses, 139 to Denmead, Blue Peter (again), Theatre Royal, Tommy on Portsdown hill, tie-dye t-shirts, loons, Roxy Music, clogs, Bridge Tavern, Ice Cream vans and Minis, the Pseudmuthian, Red Lions football, Gowerton, Esso Colts trophy 1974, Welsh tour, beef pit, 20 Embassy, the day I met Marie, band on the run, 12th man, breast suppressors, err scum, tank tops, PHAGS film club, YASI 125’s, bivvy tents, Satchel’s Anglia, grip and sleeping bag, M33, Lee Enfield .303’s, Arnie Stanton, Boris Schnabel’s desk with Led Zeppelin inked on it, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, chalking desks, apple pie beds, twigs, gola try rugby boots, plastic Godzilla mascots, dodgem, gnoming, grape treading holidays, Penistone-bird alterations to the honours board, walking the Pennine way, my length mate etc, 10 Cadets, Vic Hampton, Wishbone Ash, Deep Purple, Free, Genesis, Yes, Floyd, Barry Blue, The Monkees, Stuart Henry, Jimmy Saville’s old record Club, Noel Edmonds breakfast Show, Radio One Road show at Southsea common, smiley wanker miley, Radio Victory, Chris Ryder Disco Party, Triumph Vitesse firing order, double diamond, Turner or Webb at Hilsea, annual parade, Jasper in the glider, M27, Brickwoods Mild at the Bridge tavern, Cheese and onion rolls, Cowes week at the Folly, Bearded penis for physics, prefects walk, naval officers greatcoats, Royal Enfield Meteor Minor twin, Denny Lane for Maths. Porsche 911 owned by some twat at school (his Dad, an airline pilot had died) Reg Number OCT 6. He traded it in for a Lotus Esprit. My Austin Healey Sprite - cost £140 from the Portsmouth Evening News December 20th 1977, insurance cost £200. Remembering now, all those year later what a stuck up bitch ***** ********** was. How much I hated The Avenue Lawn Tennis Club in Havant, but how much you desire to belong. My cat, Pippin who adopted us in 1970, and passed away in 1982. Jumping up and down on a Royal Marines SRN6 hovercraft with Steve Bartlett, and getting caught at Browndown camp. Same day as getting caught smoking Consulates... good weekend that was, especially Steve farting all night in the tent. Learning to drive at Goodwood before I was 17, when it was a proper race circuit and not inhabited by a bunch of chavvy City banker wankers piss-bag types as per the Revival these days. The upper school caretaker beating a pigeon to death outside the bogs under form 3 B. Nowadays he'd have some form of security check and be led away to be tagged. Being thin. Thinking I knew everything. Thinking back that I knew nothing. Petrol being 35p a gallon. Working in Havant petrol station in the summer of '76, being paid 18p an hour, serving the owner of Marsh Plant in his Aston Martin. Smelling 5 star fuel and using it - before the green tossers stuck their oar in. Driving around the Sussex lanes after 4 or 5 pints at night and never being stopped. Not having to wear a seat belt. Clunk click, Jimmy is it? **** off you weirdo. Realising how much, in retrospect, my parents loved me, and now knowing I didn't love them back. Shit, what a tosser. Flares & hairstyles, Not being aware that I wouldn't live for ever. Phil Hakluyt's Party (the one where we behaved very badly) Clackers, Unridable bicycles, Judith Stephenson's legs.The party circuit pissing off countless parents as we learnt how to get pissed, vomit and have sex!! Falling off Puch maxi going into Stanley St from Palmerston Rd. A party in the gravel- pits just outside Chichester, not far from a mental hospital. A good mate who stood in my parents lounge for an eternity, wanting to hold someone's hand to the Odeon, ABC or, knowing him, the Palace, and being flatly refused. Getting my Mum to put flares in my jeans - big triangles of satin were best. Working all the hours out the seafront for money to buy my next bike - working with Ross, Pete, Nigel, Julian, Ian and Dave made it a pleasure, and we had some laughs. Buying my BSA C15 for cash and being so proud of it. Long hot summers. Jackie and Jacqui. Bike rides with my best friends. Growing my hair as long as I could without getting into trouble at school. Enjoying Art and French, but hating History and Geography. Wishing I had gone to more concerts, and wondering why I never went to any of Phil's legendary parties. Never doing enough revision for exams. Always getting average marks and 'could try harders'. SBJ's parties, sailing club discos all along the coast, picking strawberries at 20p/hour. Brown Sugar - how come you taste so good. Thrashing Bryanston!! Discovering, by way of friendship's) some of life's essentials - sex, drugs, Rock'n'Roll, motorbikes and skiing. I think the one that stands out is being 14, looking 12 and somehow getting served in pubs. Twenty six pence for a pint of scrumpy in the Florence, 28p in the Borough Arms .. a fine Glam Rock, 5th Formers abusing their Royals and Dock Martins on others waiting patiently in the lunch queue, Mayfair magazine, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased), Neil Thomas' parties, Anouska Hempel (actress who regularly appeared on Call My Bluff), throwing live fireworks in the men's toilet blocks on Southsea seafront (deeply ashamed now), collecting Southsea road signs and displaying them in my cellar, playing cards in the cellar, watching Pompey second bottom in the old 4th Division, inventing the synthesizer (well having the electric Hoover in the background while Union Jack was performing, anyway), may cat Jimmy (named after Jimmy Greaves, the best of days. Seafront cafes & girls flirting for free ice creams; The Still & West; Long cycle rides just to go visit a girl; CCF camp & Browndown in the rain - Oh what fun!; Pauline Addison; GB Athletics trials; Nero's and Grannies in the Tricorn; The Tour of Life .Fashion victims; granddad shirts, 'Yes' logo T- Shirts, afghan coats, Adidas Rom trainers, combat jackets, great coats, long hair, Culottes, cheese cloth shirts, platforms, feeling indestructible so drinking, smoking, riding motorcycles in jeans, staying up for 40 hours. Wanting to rebel against the suit wearing corporate life set out for us - failed! Joined the establishment, bugger! Long hot summers on the banks of the Thames at Windsor, paddling and watching the boats because it was great and because it was free! Bridge over troubled water the album.. party nights at the scout hut. Music went on, lights went off. Parents collected at 1030 PM to hut in complete darkness, ..fun times ;-) Also in 2002 many of you recalled your favourite tracks and albums from the 70’s….here they are.