Stories Written By: Rennie Hand

It’s a sad but quite frequest story that people should make note of. Life is too short to bear grudges and as it happened to Barry Gibb it could happen to any of us you shouldnt leave it too late. Forgive and make up because tomorrow they could be gone.

Here’s Robin’s interview with One News US Correspondant Jack Tame.

I thought this was a great story and great kudos to the Lancashire Evening post for bringing it back to our attention. It’s about 2 – 16 year old fans who managed to persuade their local town hall to book The Bay City Rollers through sheer determination using their fan power.

Read the full story here.

Here’s a sweet article about the old toys we used to play with I thought you guys might find of interest.
It’s written by Dawn Damalas Meehan from Babble

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Interesting snippet about a mix up that caused Blondie stardom – written by William Colvin.
Is it true or not Chris Stein doesn’t think so.

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Paul Weller, Blondie and The Script have been booked to perform gigs in the forest, with profits from the events being spent in improving the woodland for both people and wildlife.

Weller will perform on Friday July 12, and tickets cost £39. Weller is acclaimed as one of the greatest singer songwriters of British popular music, and this is the third time he has performed at Thetford Forest.

Blondie, fronted by pop icon Deborah Harry, will perform with special guests The Lightning Seeds on Saturday June 15, and tickets cost £36.

For more details click here

Leee Black Childers has released a new book and also opened an exhibition which has some never before seen images of Debbie Harry, Jackie Curtis & Iggy Pop.

The images are taken in the most iconic places, from Andy Warhol’s Factory and Max’s Kansas City to The Chelsea Hotel and The Anarchy Tour.

Featuring witty and personal tales about legendary icons penned by the friend who knew them well, these revealing portraits showing the likes of Bowie, Warhol, Rotten and others as you’ve never seen them before.

Andy Warhol told me to find your spot, grab a chair and let them come to you… These are stories and memories I have treasured from my very eventful past history.’ noted Childers.

For the full story click the Daily Mail link here

Those of you lucky ones who live on the other side of the pond are in for a treat with The Little River Band (Reminiscing) and The Atlanta Rhyythm (Spooky Lady) on the same bill!!

Got to be worth the money just to see them do Reminiscing – such a beautiful song

See link for details

Some great news has come to my ears that one of the great bands of the seventies have reformed and have released a new album. I can remember seeing them at Blackbush Airport supporting Bob Dylan and they are responsible for one of my favourite tracks “Hey Lord don’t ask me questions.”

So I’m a very happy bunny to see them reform and now waiting to see when they’re going to tour.

Director Judd Apatow surprised singer Graham Parker last summer with an offer to play himself in his upcoming comedy “This Is 40.”

Parker accepted. Then he turned the tables on Apatow with some news of his own: After 30 years apart, Parker and his legendary punk/pub rock backing band the Rumour had reunited.

A huge fan of Parker’s work, Apatow was so thrilled he put the band in the film — a “Knocked Up” spinoff starring Paul Rudd that hits theaters Dec. 21.

“He asked me if I could act,” Parker said from New York City. “I told him I’d done that posing thing in a bunch of videos years ago and that singers don’t really act, they mug. But he still put me in the film and flew the whole band out for two days of shooting.”

For such Rumour die-hards as Apatow, the reunion is a long time coming. The band plays its first Boston gig since the early ’80s tonight at the Wilbur Theatre.

For full story go to Graham Parker Re-Union

We have loads of items to be uploaded to our Memorabilia section on http://www.totally70s.co.uk/memorabilia/ but thought you might not want to wait so we have opened it’s doors already for you to have a look through. We have hundreds of items to photograph and upload and thought rather than wait 2 years for us to do it, it might be better to upload a few every day. I have hundreds of 7″ singles to prepare here so if there’s something in particular you might like just add a request in comment box and I’ll see if I can find it.

One of the most interesting articles we found was this little Decimal Currency Converter. It’s a real piece of history and something that would get a lot of interest.

http://www.totally70s.co.uk/memorabilia/decimal-currency-converter/

Also thought you might enjoy the video that goes with it starring the On the Buses star – Doris Hare