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Post by jim on Feb 16, 2017 14:18:11 GMT
Odd one! Attachments:
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Post by madtom on Feb 16, 2017 14:23:10 GMT
So he used to wear his waistcoat, jeans, white trainers etc. at home. Yeah, right!  |
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Post by jim on Feb 16, 2017 14:26:19 GMT
So he used to wear his waistcoat, jeans, white trainers etc. at home. Yeah, right! It's the perfect gear for gardening surely 😂 |
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Post by dennis on Feb 16, 2017 14:51:14 GMT
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Post by jim on Feb 16, 2017 15:15:26 GMT
At least nobody's said "fork off" yet! |
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Post by dennis on Feb 16, 2017 15:21:18 GMT
At least nobody's said "fork off" yet! I can't believe they didn't ask him if he had any issues with weed(s)! |
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Post by madtom on Feb 18, 2017 20:12:44 GMT
Speaking of weed(s) and offstage clothing, I'm reading Suggs' autobiography at the moment and came across this passage about Madness' first appearence on TOTP...  |
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Feb 19, 2017 12:36:42 GMT
At least nobody's said "fork off" yet! I can't believe they didn't ask him if he had any issues with weed(s)! Like he would know! Growing potatoes is a sustained activity. I s'pect there was a gardener who should be getting aname check there ... |
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Post by dennis on Feb 21, 2017 9:13:52 GMT
I can't believe they didn't ask him if he had any issues with weed(s)! Like he would know! Growing potatoes is a sustained activity. I s'pect there was a gardener who should be getting aname check there ... Well, as we subsequently were to learn, Spud was the first out the door as Francis steadily remodelled Quo in his image. |
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Feb 21, 2017 15:14:21 GMT
First class word association!
All the same, lest we forget, as far as we know Spud was the architect of his own demise here, and nobody stepped forward to say "give him a break." The management saw him off and, as it happens, unlike the next management, the former Cruxy and Cols had no particular reason to favour Francis.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Feb 22, 2017 22:28:57 GMT
That's where Alan went wrong in trying to force there hand. Alan had known something financial was wrong from around 1978. However Alan was normally complaining about many things so the others never really took him seriously. Francis and Rick at the time were more worried where the next line was coming from than looking at what was going on financially.
So they were easily manipulated by the people who wanted the money the band was generating. Alan's problem was that he went about things the wrong way. Rather than getting it done quietly he would go around shouting at people and that would just make them hide things better from him.
Look at the incident in Vienna they shoved Rick about but he just shrugged it off, Alan put them on the floor. Which is really the wrong thing to do he played into their hands as that was the reaction they wanted.
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