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TT for me means the Phil Spector singles. Her voice, though spectacular and omnipotent and unique, was quite a blunt instrument. Someone to be taken in small portions. But my older sister loved her, so her eighties comeback was part of the soundtrack to my adolescence. I was happy to listen to Private Dancer (the song) and What's Love Got to Do With It. Not so much what came after.

It's curious being at the confluence of a brother and sister's musical tastes. From my brother I got Berlin electronics, Bowie and Dutch rock, and from my sister I got early R&R and seventies soul/disco.

Not the stuff we were stereotyped as growing up on like Genesis, Floyd and Yes.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:It's curious being at the confluence of a brother and sister's musical tastes. From my brother I got Berlin electronics, Bowie and Dutch rock, and from my sister I got early R&R and seventies soul/disco.

Not the stuff we were stereotyped as growing up on like Genesis, Floyd and Yes.

Dutch rock? My god....

Well, seventies Dutch rock.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Well, seventies Dutch rock.

I think if someone in my family was to play Golden Earring to me more than once, I would have to bury them somewhere in the countryside

I was a tween. I couldn't drive.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Impressions of Savile back in the seventies are distorted by the knowledge of what came after. But I was too young at the time to intuit what now feels sinister about him. Still, I didn't go out of my way to watch him (he was unavoidably on TOTP), as even though I couldn't see what was malevolent behind the idiot facade, I could at least see the idiot facade.

He was the face of the seatbelt campaign... clunk, click every trip, so it was clearly felt that he was the sort of trustworthy person to guide society through a major safety campaign.... which in hindsight seems a hideous choice, particularly since it now seems that a great many people in authority knew, or at least suspected, that things were far from right with him.

I once saw him running a road race in Scarborough when I was 18, in his gold shiny tracksuit and with an unlit cigar in his hand. I was pleased to have seen him at the time, which made me feel dirty years later

Jim Hines 76

first man to run a sub 10 sec 100m in 1968. He ran 9.95 seconds at the Mexico Olympics and it remained the world record until 1983

Astrud Gilberto, singer of Girl from Ipanema and many other bossanova records dies aged 83.

Glenda Jackson 87

peacefully

Won a couple of Oscars. An occasionally trenchant voice for Labour too. But I expect most widely known for Morcambe and Wise.

Gordon McQueen. Ex Leeds, Man U and Scotland centre half.

along with John Hollins, 76, former Chelsea player

McQueen got dementia early, as is so often the case with big headers of the ball back then

Chelsea and Arsenal I think. From my early days as a football fan.

Alan Arkin 89

still my favourite Yossarian