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with eltons recent post on fat mattress i just want to say only heard 2 tracks from the album me-self but it was a very good year for music in feb the bbc charts linked with music week so that meant you could buy the record mirror and tape the top 20 on the sunday,get all the new releases lp tracks sadly all my reel to reels have wore so ive been lucky enough to meet someone fromFRUand he has some on cassette tape mainly 70s,71 was so-so the latter part was the best.

Some other things also happened in 1969 apart from steve's events but they were very minor compared to his:

Man Walked on the Moon (I remember being woken up in the early hours of the morning to watch the first ever Moon landing).

50 pence introduced in to everyday use.

Pele scored his 1,000th goal.

The 747 & Concord had their first flights.

Monty Phython's Flying Circus first shown.

Woodstock.

CC started school, gave up his dummy, and got his first action man.
Also suspect I had my first Curry a "Vesta" which now you wouldn't give to the dog, but in 1969 it was exotic and a real treat. LOL.
Ahhh happy days.

CC

Fuck me CC, whatever happened to those things(vesta curries) they were like muesli with herbs in, I would NEVER have remembered that shit, if you hadn,t brought it up!(not literally) now I,m floating in the air with those aromatic memories, youv,e made a young man 'very old' cheers.
Still thinkin about the 24th, I,m soooo busy at the mo, but you never know.
anyway.
ATB.

Liz.

Vesta Curries: My dad used to buy them from a small supermarket store called "Wavy Line". Remember we also used to get a small biscuit type thing called an "Iced Diamond" or something like that.

I had a 69 once. Ahhh, happy days

LOL Yup good old vesta curries, funny how things come back to you innit.
Can you remember Fizz bombs bloody great sherbety gob stoppers.
And golden nugget chewing gum that came in a little draw string pouch.
Many a fine day was passed on my Chopper bike, with my oxford bags pockets crammed with them and as a special treat I got a bar of caramac chocolate, funny I brought one of those the other month and frankly it was disgusting...LOL...Christ I feel a real old bugger now.

CC.

Iced Gems?

Iced Gems yeah they were lovely little things, I think the Iced diamonds were a bigger buscuit with either yellow or pink icing and a swirl of the alternative colour in them, both were unfeasibly sweet, no wonder I have major dentists bills.

Palm of violets, swizzles & refreshers, the girls in our street used to make tea in their plasic tea sets, by putting these in cold water and mashing them up, for us mugs to drink.

Cool I like this thread.

CC.

FROZEN JUBBLIES !!!!!!!!!!