2nd GENERATION lp
2nd GENERATION were also known as the YOUNG GENERATION, or so we've been told, they were active on bbc tv in the 70s, we love their participation in the finale of 'SIDE bY SIDE', they lend great ambiance and background vocals to the performaance
CONFESSIONS of a POP PERFORMER
This hard to find glam/pop lp was from a series of erotic bbc comedy shows in the early - mid 70s....
this is the rare and obscure UK soundtrack to Confessions Of A Pop Performer, which also includes music from Confessions Of A Window Cleaner. Both are classic mid 70s UK soft erotic films with Robin Asquith as lucky lad Timmy Lea. ?Pop Performer? involves the Glam Rock band ?Kipper?, and there are classic junk shop glam numbers performed by the band. Also the tracks are interspersed with hilarious, often sexual Timmy Lea dialogue. Side B contains two instrumentals from ?Window Cleaner?, and includes the killer slow funk number ?Charlie Snowgarden? by Sam Sklair. This track alone is the one everyone wants, with it?s slow and heavy white funk grooves. This LP now hits dealers list at about ?60 these days. Rare and now very desirable.
when we asked a friend in england about this lp she had this to say ~
You do love the English stuff don't you ? 'Confessions Of A Pop Performer' was part of a series of 'Confessions' films, confessions of window cleaner, confessions of a driving instructior. You can learn more about the English attitude to sex by watching them than reading a million books. They are smutty, saucy and silly but they capture a certain naivete of the time and Robin Asqwith looks like a not very stylish Jaggerish type.
JAM
JAM's single of '73 was entitled 'SO MANY QUESTIONS' and was written by BOB BUCKLEY........at first we thought this glam 45 was of the JAM JAM BAND of whom we have one song reviewed, perhaps there was another 70s glam rock band of this name, whatever the case it is not The Jam which came out a few yrs later........
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Harvey Kash, 69, and Carl Lanzisera, 65, were arrested while standing in line at the courthouse in Hempstead, N.Y., in January, only because, said court officials, they were telling anti-lawyer jokes, to the irritation of a lawyer within earshot. Charges against Lanzisera were dropped, but prosecutors actually referred Kash's case to a grand jury, which, three weeks later, refused to indict him. (Said Kash's attorney, "Crime must be at a record low in Nassau County for the grand jury to have time for this.") [New York Post, 2-9-05; Newsday, 1-12-05]
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