What are you listening to?

[SirGalahad]

Ricgard Wagner

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Quite superb, although you are probably the type that listens to Wagner because of the Hitler connection.

The Tannhauser Overture is my Wagner favourite, a thundering piece of music.

 

[fillyboy]

There's a lovely Ricky Gervais film called 'Cemetery Junction'. Cemetery Junction is a small part of Reading but in the film it becomes a small town. Ricky grew up in Reading and some say the film was semi autobiographical although Ricky denies this. It's set in the 70's and the main character, a teenager goes to work for an insurance company in order to better himself, This was accurate in that in the 70's in Reading 'Pearl Assurance' was a major employer, as was Huntley and Palmer and Suttons Seeds, all gone now replaced by high tech companies, basically Silicon Valley.

Anyway, I digress, one of my favourite lines from the film is where the lead character who's trying to better himself by working for the insurance company is playing a 'classical music' LP because he thinks that was what the better class of people listened to, when his friends walk into the room and say 'Oi, stop listening to this 'gay' sh1t and stick some Elton John on'.

Only Ricky Gervais could come up with a line like that.

 

[Mottie]

I’m listening to Tony Blackburn's Golden hour on BBC Radio 2 right now.

 

[EddieM]

Have a guess how old she was when she played this.

 

[Stivino]

I’m listening to Tony Blackburn's Golden hour on BBC Radio 2 right now.

Me too. The Drifers; Down on the beach tonight.

 

[crystal ball]

R4 Front Row arts programme, luvvy

 

[Mottie]

I’m listening to Tony Blackburn's Golden hour on BBC Radio 2 right now.

And again tonight.

Beach Baby

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Have a guess how old she was when she played this.

14?