BlueBeard

More of a sit-down comedian, Dave Allen was brilliant. I loved Billy Connolly's stuff in the mid-70's, also Jasper Carrott and Bob Newhart, while Bob Monkhouse was apparently a great stand-up comic though I wasn't lucky enough to see him live. Funniest I've ever seen on stage though was Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson, absolutely had me creased up every time I saw him!

What a boring f*ckin' match!

Early 70's I wore Levi StaPrest strides, Ben Sherman or Brutus shirt, Levi jacket or Crombie (depending on the weather), brogues or DM's, smart as f*ck. Late 70's I was resplendent in a donkey jacket most of the time, easier to blend in with the scruffy northern types and gain entry to the away ends. Never went in for the casual stuff personally, though I did sport a Sergio Tacchini jacket now and then.

Veron was a worse signing, he was bleedin' awful!

17 days, apparently. Not sure what format these matches took, whether they were the full 90 minutes, 45 minutes, or even 6 or 7 a-side! I got the info from Ron Hockings' "Ninety Years Of The Blues", a fantastic statistical history of Chelsea. 21.05.64 - Chelsea 7 Barbados 0 - Bridgetown - (Brown 3, McCreadie 2, Upton 2) 23.05.64 - Chelsea 1 Wolves 3 - Bridgetown - (Bridges) 26.05.64 - Chelsea 5 Trinidad 0 - Port Of Spain - (Brown 3, Venables, Tambling) 27.05.64 - Chelsea 3 Wolves 2 - Port Of Spain - (McCreadie, Bridges, Venables (pen)) 29.05.64 - Chelsea 2 Wolves 4 - Kingston - (Tambling, Bridges) 31.05.64 - Chelsea 15 St. James 0 - Montego Bay - (Tambling 5, Bridges 3, McCreadie 3, Hinton 2, Brown, Venables) 02.06.64 - Chelsea 3 Wolves 0 - Kingston - (McCreadie, Hollins, Tambling) 03.06.64 - Chelsea 12 St. James 1 - Montego Bay - (Tambling 5, McCreadie 3, Hinton 2, Brown 2) 04.06.64 - Chelsea 4 Jamaica XI 1 - Kingston - (Tambling 2, Brown, McCreadie) 06.06.64 - Chelsea 2 Wolves 0 - Port au Prince - (Tambling, Venables) 07.06.64 - Chelsea 1 Haiti 2 - Port au Prince - (Venables (pen), ?) abandoned due to tropical rainstorm Eddie McCreadie with 11 goals!!!

Only reference to this game I could find... Barbados 0 Chelsea 7 (Dennis Brown 3, Eddie McCreadie 2, Frank Upton 2) 21 May 1964, Bridgetown Part of a West Indies tour, two matches in Barbados, two in Trinidad, five in Jamaica, and two in Haiti.

1. AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It 2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 3. Bob Marley - Exodus 4. TheTemptations - Masterpiece 5. Deep Purple - Made In Japan 6. Peter Tosh - Equal Rights 7. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74 8. Al Green - Let's Stay Together 9. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust 10. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy 11. Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon 12. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 13. Cream - Disraeli Gears 14. Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity 15. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory 16. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On 17. Hawkwind - A Space Ritual 18. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 19. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World 20. Janis Joplin (Full Tilt Boogie Band) - Pearl Blimey, just looked at the completed list and realised that every album is from the 70's apart from Disraeli Gears!

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes!!! Great band!

No particular order... 1. Pink Floyd 2. The Who 3. Kate Bush 4. James Brown 5. The Velvet Underground 6. Deep Purple (mk.2) 7. Peter Tosh 8. Johnny Cash 9. Desmond Dekker 10. Rory Gallagher 11. AC/DC (with Bon Scott) 12. The Temptations 13. Al Green 14. Fleetwood Mac 15. Gary Moore (his bluesy stuff) 16. Diana Ross & The Supremes 17. The Rolling Stones (60's & 70's only) 18. Thin Lizzy 19. Janis Joplin 20. Free Impossible task really, that list will be different tomorrow!

The only decent thing to come out of France!

Plokkers, as BF says, best to start with "Irish Tour '74" and "Live In Europe" and besides, they're also my favourite Rory albums anyway. The Irish Tour DVD is awesome! Another album that's right up there is "Blueprint" which includes the classics 'Daughter Of The Evergades' and 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son'. Generally speaking, his earlier albums are the blusiest.

The lack of David Bowie, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Chuck Berry, The Small Faces, Free, Bad Company, The Temptations, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, James Brown, ELO, Little Richard, Peter Tosh, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Four Tops, The Supremes, Janis Joplin, The Kinks, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, T.Rex, Rainbow, The Grateful Dead, Al Green, The Yardbirds, Marvin Gaye, Thin Lizzy, Phil Ochs, Smokey Robinson, Van Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Blondie, The Ramones, Bob Seger, MC5, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Lee Hooker, Gram Parsons, Black Oak Arkansas, The Animals, Emmylou Harris, Muddy Waters and a whole lot more disturbed me...

I'll have a go, Gem... 1. The Beatles - Here, There And Everywhere 2. Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy 3. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 4. Madonna - Beautiful Stranger 5. Elton John - Border Song 6. Led Zeppelin - Black Dog 7. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond 8. Mariah Carey - N/A 9. Celine Dion - N/A 10. W1hitney Houston - How Will I Know 11. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock 12. Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye 13. The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice 14. ABBA - I Have A Dream 15. Garth Brooks - N/A 16. Eagles - Hotel California 17. Rihanna - N/A 18. U2 - Angel Of Harlem 19. Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me 20. Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like A Lady) 21. Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night 22. Barbra Streisand - Stoney End 23. Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 24. Neil Diamond - I Am...I Said 25. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 26. Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You 27. Julio Iglesias - N/A 28. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 29. Metallica - N/A 30. Taylor Swift -N/A 31. Eminem - N/A 32. Britney Spears - N/A N/A 33. Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind 34. Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name 35. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 36. George Strait - N/A 37. Backstreet Boys - N/A 38. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 39. Prince - Purple Rain 40. Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town 41. Paul McCartney - Band On The Run 42. Janet Jackson - N/A 43. Chicago - I'm A Man 44. The Carpenters - Goodbye To Love 45. Bob Dylan - Hurricane 46. George Michael - N/A 47. Bryan Adams - N/A 48. Def Leppard - Animal 49. Cher - Gypsy's, Tramps And Thieves 50. Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night) 51. Olivia Newton-John - If Not For You 52. Stevie Wonder - If You Really Love Me 53. Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou 54. Tina Turner - Simply The Best 55. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby 56. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows 57. Kiss - God Gave Rock'n'Roll To You (not as good as Argent's version, obviously) 58. The Who - I Can See For Miles 59. Johnny Hallyday - N/A 60. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything 61. Katy Perry - N/A 62. Santana - Samba Pa Ti 63. Gloria Estefan - N/A 64. Kanye West - N/A 65. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts 66. B'z - N/A 67. Shania Twain - N/A 68. Van Halen - Dance The Night Away 69. Lady Gaga - N/A 70. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication 71. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is 72. The Doors - The End 73. Reba McEntire - N/A 74. Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer For Love 75. Barry Manilow - N/A 76. Tom Petty - Refugee 77. New Kids on the Block - N/A 78. The Black Eyed Peas - N/A 79. Jay-Z - N/A 80. Journey - Look Into The Future 81. Beyoncé - N/A 82. Kenny G - N/A 83. Enya - Orinoco Flow 84. Alabama - N/A 85. Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams 86. Nirvana - Smells Like Teenage Spirit 87. Tupac Shakur - Keep Ya Head Up 88. Spice Girls - N/A 89. Andrea Bocelli - N/A 90. Bob Marley - Soul Rebel 91. Mötley Crüe - N/A 92. Depeche Mode - N/A 93. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer 94. Scorpions - Is There Anybody There Bloody hell, that was hard work!

Very good result!

Did anyone see the series "Ben Hall" in the mid 70's? It was a non-fictional drama about the Wild Colonial Boys in New South Wales during the mid nineteenth century. Never saw it myself, but I'm currently reading a book on the subject and find it fascinating, a bit like an Aussie version of the Wild West. Been looking on the net to see if it's been released on DVD or even VHS, but no joy.

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I was never a fan but he made me laugh sometimes. It's tragic that he felt he couldn't face life anymore, and my heart goes out to the ones he's left behind - I know from experience just what they are going through.

Not an ideal start, but I'm not that worried (yet). Hearts just down from the SPL, Gers just up from Div.1, you could say there's a two division gap. Besides, Hearts are my second Scots side, be a different story if we lost to Hibs!

Scotland's mid-70's kit is a great shout, second football shirt I ever bought! Chelsea's 76/77 shirt was my first.

Was feeling a bit down earlier, so I listened to a ska compilation I'd put together, felt better almost immediately. Never underestimate the power of music!

Hello Pickles, enjoy the forum!

Further to the "Wearing other teams colours" thread, I just wondered what kits people on here like. For me, the best ever kit was the one worn by Chelsea in the late 60's/early 70's, both home and away (obviously), but there have been plenty of other kits I've liked over the years. For instance, I always liked Southampton's strip of red & white stripes, black shorts, red & white socks, back when the stripes were the same width. I also like the Wolves old gold/black, though they played in all old gold when I was a kid. Hull's gold & black stripes has always looked smart too. Newcastle's famous black & white was always one of my favourites too. Crystal Palace used to wear shirts with wide claret stripes and narrow light blue, with yellow/gold trim. Forfar wore green & white stripes, and another Scottish club wore green & black stripes, can't remember who though. Overseas, the Ajax kit has always looked great, as has Feyenoord's, and I always loved Inter's strip. How about you lot?

If Costa, Drogs & Torres are all on top form, no problem, we'd be covered if one of them was out for a while through injury. It's highly unlikely they'd all be on form all season though, and much as I like Torres, I really think we should get rid. Not going to be easy though, even if we let him go on a free, how many clubs would be willing to meet his wage demands? And let's face it, Costa is likely to be suspended for about ten games a season. I'd prefer to bring in a young British striker with a bit of ambition, but admittedly they're very thin on the ground. Maybe someone like Charlie Austin, Jordan Rhodes or Danny Ings, decent young Championship players who may be willing to take a chance as backup at the Bridge. Unfortunately I can't see Mourinho taking that option.

Isn't Miranda that big bird off the telly? Haven't seen her play but looking at her I reckon she'd make a good, tough central defender, like Micky Droy but with tits

George Best said that he'd have loved to play for Chelsea alongside Osgood, Cooke, Hudson, etc...what a signing that would have been, just imagine Bestie playing for the Blues! The players would have loved it, the fans would have loved it, the local crumpet would have loved it, and all the local publicans would have loved it. Imagine a quiet night in your pub, and then in walk George Best, Peter Osgood, Tommy Baldwin, Charlie Cooke and Alan Hudson - Ka-Chinggg! Unfortunately our manager at the time didn't have the balls to even contemplate another piss-head at the club, and so we missed out on a wonderful opportunity.