The New Musical Express was the music paper of record for a long time. The late, great Pat Long wrote a very good book about it, so good that people wanted to ask him about it all the time. I know I certainly did. Freddie and the Dreamers were… well… I’m not sure they were the band to take us into the jet age but someone clearly had to do it.
NEMS
“Jane” isn’t going to stand for any of the traditional nonsense. Remember, spex=sex. I don’t remember the last time I had to establish how shortsighted Shelley is – it might be 2005/6, so for the sake of the record, she’s VERY shortsighted.
There were only two TV channels in the UK in 1963, the BBC and ITV. BBC2 started in 1967. “Z Cars” was a police TV show. Feel free to learn more about it here, though you may find you push something useful out of your brain in the process.
Delighted to feature the late Alan “Fluff” Freeman in today’s comic. Fluff seemed about 100 years old when I used to listen to him on Pick Of The Pops in the 90s. I looked at photos of him in 1963: basically the same, hair slightly less wide. Respect.
Whenever Shelley has to explain that anything is “from the future”, she substitutes the words “from Finland”. I’ve been to Finland, it is quite futuristic. The perfect cover. In Shelley’s world, as established in the first comic of this story, Freddie & The Dreamers are the most famous and influential pop group of all time. Hence her frankly extra-order reaction.
I learned the phrase “Italian rarebit” from a documentary about 60s mods. It’s not just another of my so-called “Jally japes”.
I wonder what Ringo’s fascination is with human-faced trains? I hope we get to address this matter further.