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by JimTidmarsh » 16 Sep 2019, 10:38
Only £3.35 !!!
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by drakula63 » 16 Sep 2019, 10:44
JimTidmarsh wrote:Only £3.35 !!!
A bargain! I'd have happily paid 20 quid for it!
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by iefje » 16 Sep 2019, 11:19
Hi Chris, that's a very nice find! I have seen fragments of the "20 Golden Greats" advertisement, but never in its entirety. The "String Of Hits" one is completely new to me.
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by MikeAB » 16 Sep 2019, 11:57
The cricket bat ad was inspired and did so much for them. Used a tennis racquet with 11's myself though.
Does anyone recall Hank being on a Radio 4 talk in morning programme just before his first solo tour? He and Ben played Eleanor Rigby at the end I think. There was a very clever poem read out by someone which parodied the cricket bat ad in a somewhat risque way - very, very funny. Anyone have a copy of that?
Mike
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by John Brown » 16 Sep 2019, 19:13
I have 3 copies of string of hits on vinyl but £ 60 would be extortionate, maybe if 2 members on here would like 2 free only pay postage please let me know, unfortunately for you but not for me I will be away for about 3cweeks on holiday
Best Regards
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by Moderne » 17 Sep 2019, 08:07
JimTidmarsh wrote:Only £3.35 !!!
...and at the time it cost about £2-£2.50 to see them live. After 40 years of 'progress', a new CD costs £5-10 and you'd pay £60-£120+ to see an artist of the Shads' stature!
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by JimN » 17 Sep 2019, 11:28
Moderne wrote:JimTidmarsh wrote:Only £3.35 !!!
...and at the time it cost about £2-£2.50 to see them live. After 40 years of 'progress', a new CD costs £5-10 and you'd pay £60-£120+ to see an artist of the Shads' stature!
I remember being shocked by the price of admission to see The Carpenters at the Liverpool Empire in early 1974: £2.50 a head, which was the equivalent - then - of the price of about five gallons of petrol. Today, that would be about £31. I'd been brought up on 7s/6d (37.5p) tickets to see package shows at the Empire. And my ticket to see Cliff Richard and the Welch-less Shadows in 1969 had been about 12s/6d (62.5p).
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by iefje » 17 Sep 2019, 13:52
JimN wrote:And my ticket to see Cliff Richard and the Welch-less Shadows in 1969 had been about 12s/6d (62.5p).
What was the show like in 1969? Did it sound just like the concert from October 12th, 1969 in Tokyo?
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by MikeAB » 17 Sep 2019, 17:51
And was this the tour when Hank was ill and missing at the Rainbow/Astoria show?
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