You know you're getting old when...
...you discover that "Cockney Sparrow" Lorraine Chase is 75 years old today!
She may have been a quiz show regular, she may have been in the soap Emmerdale - but it is this for which she will forever be remembered by us Brits:
[NB She shares her birthday with a raft of fellow celebrants, including Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Angharad Rees, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Chilton, Desmond Dekker, Roald Amundsen, Big Breakfast alumnus Johnny Vaughan (who is 60), Corin Redgrave, Michael Flatley, Denise LaSalle, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Frank Field, Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, and "Lady Edith" in Downton Abbey Laura Carmichael (who is 40). Many happy returns, all!]
Oh! Thanks for this...that Campari ad was one of the best things ad.men ever did.
ReplyDeleteIn an era when we had only three TV channels, and computers were the stuff of Tomorrow's World, adverts were an unavoidable cultural phenomenon. "Beanz Meanz Heinz, "Everyone's a Fruit & Nutcase", "I’m a Gnu, With a cup of Typhoo", and so on - every one of them brings a wave of nostalgia! Jx
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