mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 20, 2023 9:50:44 GMT
I'll be joining you as an OAP in July (gulp  ). The only advice I can give, is if you need the toilet, you've to SAY you need the toilet! I always need the toilet. It comes with the territory  I'll soon be wearing nappies, whereas that used to be just a weekend thing at Madam Mama's  |
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Post by Gaz on Mar 20, 2023 11:39:48 GMT
I remember an article in RAM magazine (Rock Australia Magazine) back in ‘75 where Francis was going on about the older generation being ‘those boring old farts in their 50s’… well now all of a sudden I’m in my 60s…😳
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Post by kursaal75 on Mar 20, 2023 19:22:56 GMT
We should have a Roll call of all the Pensioners on the board |
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 4,601
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 21, 2023 7:28:20 GMT
We should have a Roll call of all the Pensioners on the board Let's face it, it's almost anyone who saw the band in the early to mid-70's Although I suppose it depends on the age at which you first saw them. For example, I was 56 so that makes me 106 in July. I'm wearing well |
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 4,601
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 21, 2023 7:29:51 GMT
Thinking about it, kursaal75 , how do you actually get your pension? Do they contact you or do you have to do the chasing? Not that I'm impatient for that extra 700 quid or whatever it is in my tail |
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Post by kursaal75 on Mar 21, 2023 11:03:33 GMT
Thinking about it, kursaal75 , how do you actually get your pension? Do they contact you or do you have to do the chasing? Not that I'm impatient for that extra 700 quid or whatever it is in my tail The department of Works & Pensions contact you 3 months before you reach 66 with a letter, the letter has a code which you enter on line with other person details you have to fill in. |
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 4,601
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 21, 2023 13:35:55 GMT
Thinking about it, kursaal75 , how do you actually get your pension? Do they contact you or do you have to do the chasing? Not that I'm impatient for that extra 700 quid or whatever it is in my tail The department of Works & Pensions contact you 3 months before you reach 66 with a letter, the letter has a code which you enter on line with other person details you have to fill in. Cheers. That 3-month window is fast approaching. Next month I reckon. I take it you don't still get a pension book and go stand in a Post Office queue? I've got chocolate ankles from decades of five-a-sides |
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Post by kursaal75 on Mar 21, 2023 15:42:35 GMT
The department of Works & Pensions contact you 3 months before you reach 66 with a letter, the letter has a code which you enter on line with other person details you have to fill in. Cheers. That 3-month window is fast approaching. Next month I reckon. I take it you don't still get a pension book and go stand in a Post Office queue? I've got chocolate ankles from decades of five-a-sides You will get a letter back saying how much and will be paid every month in to your account on the day of your birthday £814ish |
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mortified
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Posts: 4,601
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 21, 2023 17:07:34 GMT
Cheers. That 3-month window is fast approaching. Next month I reckon. I take it you don't still get a pension book and go stand in a Post Office queue? I've got chocolate ankles from decades of five-a-sides You will get a letter back saying how much and will be paid every month in to your account on the day of your birthday £814ish Not too shabby  |
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Post by Quoincidence on Mar 21, 2023 19:45:04 GMT
Where did the rumour start that it was filmed in a German TV Studio? Surely it would've been a British one, as Quo were in Spain / USA after the 4 British shows and then were back in the UK by May.
It was also never shown on TOTPs, going off of the TOTPs thread.
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Post by kursaal75 on Mar 21, 2023 20:03:47 GMT
I heard it was recorded at a German TV studio in May 75, after it entered the UK top 40, but I wasn't that bothered where the video was recorded, I just thought they put so much energy in to miming to a playback track.
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Post by kursaal75 on Mar 21, 2023 20:10:41 GMT
Where did the rumour start that it was filmed in a German TV Studio? Surely it would've been a British one, as Quo were in Spain / USA after the 4 British shows and then were back in the UK by May. It was also never shown on TOTPs, going off of the TOTPs thread. I saw them at Wembley 5th &6th June. I'm sure I first saw the video on the Channel 5 compilation, Rocking Through The Years, 26 video hits, and that came out 11 years later in 1986. |
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Post by Quoincidence on Mar 21, 2023 20:19:29 GMT
I heard it was recorded at a German TV studio in May 75, after it entered the UK top 40, but I wasn't that bothered where the video was recorded, I just thought they put so much energy in to miming to a playback track. annoying thing is, there's no information with any of these old videos as to who produced them and where / when they were shot - the sort of stuff saddos like me appreciate |
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Post by kursaal75 on Mar 21, 2023 20:41:00 GMT
I heard it was recorded at a German TV studio in May 75, after it entered the UK top 40, but I wasn't that bothered where the video was recorded, I just thought they put so much energy in to miming to a playback track. annoying thing is, there's no information with any of these old videos as to who produced them and where / when they were shot - the sort of stuff saddos like me appreciate Don't put yourself down Luke, your work is appreciated near and far by a lot of people. |
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Post by wolfman on Mar 22, 2023 0:14:30 GMT
Come on now it was simplistic raw 70s state of the art back then
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