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.
Sx
Time flies, Ms Scarlet.
DeleteWe'll see just how unbearable the office is today... Jx
PS There is no maximum temperature for workplaces, only a minimum whereby you may be sent home.
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.
ReplyDeleteAmsterdam can be stifling in the heat - we experienced similar back in 2020 [in the "bit in-between lockdowns", when we were (briefly) able to travel], and it was quite uncomfortable.
DeleteAs for Ms True's thrusting - once a porn star, always a porn star, I guess... Jx