I think this city gent likes it
Hotter than Cairo?!! That's mad...
As happens every time there's a heatwave in the UK, however, my thoughts drift away to that idyllic long, hot summer of '76...
The heatwave hadn't even started yet in May 1976 - we had another month to go before the UK began to bake. The fashions, as I recall, veered towards gypsy skirts and maxi-dresses for women, corduroys and high-buttoned flared denims for men [before all that was cast off for the rest of the summer in favour of swimming costumes, of course], and everyone had centre-partings and flicks!
In the headlines at the time were "Gentleman" Jim Callaghan, our new Prime Minister, already facing falling Labour Party ratings; his predecessor Harold Wilson's controversial Resignation Honours list ("the Lavender List") was published, with a number of dodgy businessmen given peerages; we were celebrating the inaugural flight of Concorde to New York; former "millionaire's playground" the Lebanon was in flames in a bloody civil war; all eyes were on British tennis champion Sue Barker for Wimbledon; and "Elsie Tanner" (Pat Phoenix) returned to Coronation Street after three years.
And in our charts this week (gulp) half a century ago? Abba's Fernando was at #1, and JJ Barrie, The Wurzels, Andrea True Connection, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Wings, Rolling Stones, Bellamy Brothers and Miss Ross were all present and correct...
...but still hovering around in the Top Ten was this all-time classic Disco number [and it's not even Friday!] - probably the very first [only?] time an actual porn star became an international hit-maker!
It's still a fab song, even 50 years later!
I'm not looking forward to the office today, in this heat - "air-con, what air-con?!"
Oh I remember that! Enough with the half century talk!
ReplyDeleteGood luck at the office today - maybe they'll send you home? Too hot to work, even at 8.20 in the morning.
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I was in Amsterdam during a heat wave in the ’70s. No AC, not even fans. It was oppressive. (But I still had a good time.) I’d never seen More, More, More performed before today. I’m grateful. Her little butt thrusts on the More, More, More are... awkward.
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