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Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry

Loving this weather at the moment - my garden is pretty as a picture. Long may it continue.

Thanks for the old newspaper cuttings. Chris Thompson was a good footballer. RIP

I heard the same which makes it rather odd that this thread has been opened and that fans of a football club about which he couldn't care less are sending condolences.

Masses Against the Classes - Manic Street Preachers

On the Beach - Chris Rea

Rockin' All Over the World - Status Quo

Strange Magic - ELO

The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin

Very odd goings-on that night. They had a row after coming back from a party after which she went for a short drive and returned to find herself locked out of the house so she spent the night in the car ..... in November with her kids asleep in the house ? In the meantime Speed had put a noose around his neck in the garage and might have hung himself by accident after falling asleep ? Something's not adding up here m'lud.

The Times They Are a Changin - Bob Dylan

Nowhere Man - Beatles

YMCA - Village People

Soul City Walking - Archie Bell and the Drells

Great day out with my old Dad. After the 1960 debacle never thought I would see Rovers play at Wembley in a cup final again. 27-year gap means we are scheduled to be back at Wembley in 2014.

Common People - Pulp

A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers

Brazil 1982 were very good but the best Brazil team of all time were the 1970 World Cup winners....Pele, Jairzinho, Rivelinho, Gerson etc all in their pomp. And yes, England should have beatne them. Bloody Jeff Astle.

Socrates actually turned out in English non-league football for Garforth Town at the age of 50. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/dec/05/socrates-garforth-town-politics-courage?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+(Football) Wonderful player, and very intelligent man: Socrates smoked like a chimney and knew it might eventually kill him but was always philosophical about it.

Roll of drums - obvious really.

Probably near the mark. Kean will have told the owners Jensen is to blame for the poor results and needs to be replaced. It's called covering your own back by sacrifcing a minion - career managers do it all the time.

Shuffling the deckchairs on the Titanic - has Ed Smith been relieved of his duties too ?

Sad news for gentlemen of a certain age who admired this lady. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8330178-actress-jane-russell-dies-age-89

Russell occasionally used to come and join in our footy matches. Good lad but never seemed to have the football passion like his dad.

Stand to be corrected but Duggie was out of the England picture well before 1966. Another Lancashire winger, John Connelly of Burnley and ManU, (and later Rovers) was in the 1966 squad and (I think) started the match against Uruguay but was then dropped. Ramsey famously didn't like wingers anyway.