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8 – David Ackles: His Name is Andrew | WOW & FLUTTER
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About Wow & Flutter. 7 – Blondie: Picture This. 9 – Radiohead: The Tourist →. July 16, 2011 · 11:58 pm. 8 – David Ackles: His Name is Andrew. While James and Thomas were still right there in the top ten, Andrew didn’t even make the first hundred. My name has begun to date me; just as my dad’s Nigel marks him out as a baby-boomer, Andrew reduces me to ‘progeny of the Thatcher era’. Boo. Boo-hoo, in fact. And Elton John serenading me in the other. His Name is Andrew’ isn’t interested in clearing a way for ...
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43 – Abba: The Day Before You Came | WOW & FLUTTER
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About Wow & Flutter. 42 – Public Image Ltd: Careering. November 2, 2013 · 10:33 pm. 43 – Abba: The Day Before You Came. I’ll tell you a story about Abba. Far from the sunny, happy foursome that grinned from my Dad’s album covers, I actually thought they were a bit rude when I was a kid. The most played album of all was Greatest Hits Volume 2. Still, as a lover of Abba more generally (and who isn’t? Abba do Fleetwood Mac and beat them at their own game), and ‘ The name of the game. Is a masterpiece of pop...
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42 – Public Image Ltd: Careering | WOW & FLUTTER
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About Wow & Flutter. 41 – The Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls. 43 – Abba: The Day Before You Came →. September 25, 2013 · 8:17 am. 42 – Public Image Ltd: Careering. Last week, televisions were pumping out The Jam and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, as Channel 4 broadcast yet another Tube. Retrospective. For those who grew up with Youtube and iTunes, The Tube. Was somewhere to the left of Top of the Pops. The chart acts of the day were well-represented to think that one of Madonna’s earliest TV appearances.
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35 – Magazine: The light pours out of me | WOW & FLUTTER
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About Wow & Flutter. 34 – Bjork: Hidden Place. 36 – Ike and Tina Turner: River Deep Mountain High →. September 14, 2012 · 2:59 pm. 35 – Magazine: The light pours out of me. For the first couple of years, Radiohead albums were my soundtrack of choice when indulging these bilious moods. On October 2. 2000, I went off to HMV (remember them? Top of the Pops. Onto VHS. My first encounter with Howard Devoto actually came from one of those videos a performance of ‘Shot by both sides’. Into an almost Pythonesque...
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WOW & FLUTTER | Weekly Words and Music | Page 2
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About Wow & Flutter. Newer posts →. September 29, 2012 · 12:34 am. 36 – Ike and Tina Turner: River Deep Mountain High. I actually thought there were two, and that I’d mixed them up by accident, like Ingmar Bergman and his blonde alter-ego Ingrid. Fancy that. Die before they get any older. When I was a kid, I often watched. Top of the Pops. Has her place; that the world is better for having her in it, that the fact of her alone is a boon. Well, people expected it of course; but it always seemed a. Magazin...
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41 – The Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls | WOW & FLUTTER
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About Wow & Flutter. 40 – Roisin Murphy: Orally Fixated. 42 – Public Image Ltd: Careering →. August 6, 2013 · 12:17 am. 41 – The Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls. Unreal City, under the brown fog of a winter dawn. Earth hath not anything to show more fair. Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, flowing on into the night. London the lifeblood of the country and the vampire that sucks it back up. Among other teenage favourites such as George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four. And this is exactly what you hear: L...