Here you are Steve…Boots online hearing check…I just did this and came out with “mild hearing loss” Interactive hearing test
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I had hearing aids fitted a few months ago. I have known for probably a couple of years that something needed to be done about my hearing but resisted it, burying my head in the sand i suppose. Really struggled watching TV, and in holding conversations in a group situation. I think maybe there is still a bit of a stigma about hearing aids, my GP pointed out that nobody thinks twice about getting glasses to aid eyesight, but getting a hearing aid is resisted. I suppose it is the final admission that one has joined the old farts brigade! I have to say it has been life transforming, i got mine from Specsavers, they did the hearing test, very thorough, and fitted them the same day. They are very discreet, you don’t really notice them, but the difference it has made to my life is amazing.
I never worked in a noisy environment, i am pretty sure that those ten years of gig going at the Gaumont, sometimes on a weekly basis, were the cause. I agree regarding ACDC, they were loud, although maybe The Who topped them. I think in the loudness stakes an American band called The Tubes were the loudest i saw at the Gaumont. I remember my ears were still ringing 24 hours later. Would i do it all over again? Fucking right i would!
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Rodney Bewes RIP
I do like the likely lads
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David Cassidy has gone.
When I was a kid all the girls I knew used to wet their knickers over David Cassidy. Along with Rodney Bewes, another of those who was famous when I was young has gone to meet his maker. Oh mortality! RIP
sounds like you had the last laugh.
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Sounds like SoG gave in to his jealously and done them in.
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I was VERY jealous. Especially of Steve Marriott from the Small Faces. I was about 13 at the time and was “walking out” with a young lady who lived down the road, I heard my mate say that she fancied Steve Marriott and didnt know he was at that point so assumed he was the local competition! A spotty little oik is never going to compete with the likes of rock stars, David Cassidy, Donny Osmond etc. as I learnt pretty quickly as I didnt look like any of them. Many years later I did have a brief romance with someone who thought I looked like her hero, Bruce Springsteen. But as they say, she should have gone to Specsavers!
Christine Keeler.
I’ll confess to knowing very little about the Profumo affair but, listening to the news this monring, it seems that this poor woman was really little more than a pawn (porn?) in a sorry affair that had the effect of creating an enormous scandal. It seems she could never really escape the whole, sorry course of events and was haunted by the whole thing for most of her life.
The famous picture
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Johnny Hallyday, le roi du rock ‘n’ roll francais, est mort. Il était merde.
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Oui, il était le français Cliff Richard.
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In tribute
Disgraced PR guru Max Clifford has croaked in prison aged 74.
Heart attack apparently.
Used to regularly see him in a coffee shop in Cobham on a Saturday morning. Always had a cheerful hello to the family.
Funny how you can never tell about people.
Call me cynical, but Clifford’s death is nice and handy for the establishment. I remember people enquiring as to what he might spill.
The answer? Nowt. Not to diminish his crimes, but the judge took the unusual step of allowing majority verdicts. He was not convicted unanimously on any of the charges. Other charges he was found not guilty on, or they were dropped.
Dead men tell no tales. Chokey probably ain’t the best place to publicise your side of the story either.
TBF Clifford was a cunt. I feel sorry for his family, but he made money Out of folks misery and private lives under the respectable guise of PR - he was a cunt.
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Cheggers plays pop (your clogs)
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Bugger you beat me to it!!
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Only 60. 