The Supremes
The Temptations
Teeny tiny transistor radios that played about 15 mins. per battery.
The Limbo Rock (How Low Can You Go?)

me

My brother was born and I think that's when I lost my first baby tooth.

Oh, and John Glenn orbited the earth.

Sweden World Champion Ship winners in Ice Hockey...



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Pirate Radio Ships and Radio Luxembourg.

Jerry Lee Lewis
Elvis Presley
Little richard
The Shadows
The Crystals
John Lee Hooker
Sam Cooke
Roy Orbison
The tornados

I don't know what you're driving at, but apart from the Tornados I think all of these started in the fities or forties, even.

Spurs won the double ;^)

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runaway
Pirate Radio Ships and Radio Luxembourg.

Jerry Lee Lewis
Elvis Presley
Little richard
The Shadows
The Crystals
John Lee Hooker
Sam Cooke
Roy Orbison
The tornados

I don't know what you're driving at, but apart from the Tornados I think all of these started in the fities or forties, even.

And pirate radio ships--though none I know about started that early.

Class 5 Deltics entered service on the east coast main line .

[It was October 61 actually...but they were still nice and shiny in 62 ;^) ]

1962 ...

... I began the 5th year of my life.

Alfa Romeo started their GIULIA series ...

... and Ferrari manufacture their first GTO 250

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me

Me too.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Certainly not me, as I was just turning minus four that year, however --



Thus hyped up, Alex and his hyped-up droogs prowl the town and kick in the keeshkas (tripes) of a lewdie, nearly murder an old shopkeeper for a few polly (pounds) and cancers (cigarettes). They invade the country house of a writer, like Burgess himself, the author of a novel called A Clockwork Orange, and force him to look on while they rape his wife. Alex's sole link with humanity seems to be his love for "Ludwig van," especially the Choral Ninth. While his pee and em (parents) are at work, he perversely violates two small girls (Alex himself is only 15) while Beethoven gives out with the Ninth on the record player.

--from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

From a letter uncovered just 5 years ago, it was revealed that there was to be a Beatles/Rolling Stones collaboration (of sorts) for the movie, which was originally proposed around 1964, with Mick Jagger in the role of Alex and The Beatles considering supplying music for the soundtrack:

In a letter uncovered this week, we learn of the Clockwork Orange conceived back before Stanley Kubrick came on board and made his film with Malcolm McDowell. It reveals that Mick Jagger wanted to play the psychotic thug Alex, while the Beatles were interested in providing the soundtrack.

In the letter, executive producer Si Litvinoff tells John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man), who was considering directing the movie: "After you've read the script and novel I'm sure you will see the incredible potential we all see in this project.

"This film should break ground in its language, cinematic style and soundtrack. [And] the Beatles love the project."

Story at: [www.theguardian.com]

"WHEN IT WAS first proposed about eight years ago, that a film be made of A Clockwork Orange, it was the Rolling Stones who were intended to appear in it, with Mick Jagger playing the role that Malcolm McDowell eventually filled. Indeed, it was somebody with the physical appearance and mercurial temperament of Jagger that I had in mind when writing the book, although pop groups as we know them had not yet come on the scene. The book was written in 1961, when England was full of skiffle. If I’d thought of giving Alex, the hero, a surname at all (Kubrick gives him two, one of them mine), Jagger would have been as good a name as any: it means “hunter,” a person who goes on jags, a person who doesn’t keep in line, a person who inflicts jagged rips on the face of society. I did use the name eventually, but it was in a very different novel—Tremor of Intent—and meant solely a hunter, and a rather holy one."

--Anthony Burgess, 1972, Rolling Stone

Full 1972 Rolling Stone article: [www.johncoulthart.com]