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Rolling Back The Years With Mayhem – 1962 August 15, 2024

Filed under: Rolling Back The Years — justwilliam1959 @ 11:25 pm
Tags: 1962, Acker Bilk, B Bumble and the stingers, Carole King, Chris Montez, Chubby Checker, Dion, Elvis Presley, Fidel Castro, Four Seasons, Little Eva, Nikita Kruschev, Tornados

This is the fourth in what I am sure will be a very long-running series, just like my long-running life, so far at least! I have decided to look at the most popular songs from every year that I have existed. There will be some artistic licence on my part as I will always seek to include at least a few of my favourites from each year. The format will be a top ten for each year and will cover the music and songs I grew up with, came of age with, and achieved my greatest success alongside music that comforted me in bad times. This fourth top ten goes back to my 3rd birthday year, 1962. I don’t remember actually hearing these songs back in 1962, but I have listened to them many times over the years. I have focused on the UK charts and this time the US bestseller does feature in my list. It is “Stranger On The Shore” by Acker Bilk. My Mum’s favourite singer Elvis Presley is in the top ten at number 7. The Tornados’ “Telstar” is at number one, this is one of my favourite tunes ever! Did you know that Matt Bellamy off of Muse was in the Tornados? So was possibly the greatest session drummer in history, Clem Cattini. So here is the fourth Rolling Back The Years With Mayhem Chart, for 1962. I reckon this is the best rolling back the year’s top ten so far! Please get on board the Time Machine now, it will be a rough journey so bring a sick bag! If you are too chicken to enter the Time Machine, click here for the playlist! The chart for 1963 will follow soon. The chart listing is below!

1 Telstar – The Tornados
2 Let’s Twist Again – Chubby Checker
3 Stranger On The Shore – Acker Bilk
4 Nut Rocker – B Bumble & The Stingers
5 Let’s Dance – Chris Montez
6 The Loco-Motion – Little Eva
7 Return To Sender – Elvis Presley
8 It Might As Well Rain Until September – Carole King
9 Sherry – The Four Seasons
10 The Wanderer – Dion

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“I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon” November 29, 2012

Filed under: News,Observation — justwilliam1959 @ 8:31 pm
Tags: A Study of Lunar Research Flights, Bad Moon Rising, Bark At The Moon, Blue Moon, Brain Damage, By The Light Of A Magical Moon, Cat Stevens, Cold War, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dancing In The Moonlight, Dark Side Of The Moon, David Bowie, Eclipse, Eisenhower, Everyones Gone To The Moon, Fidel Castro, Fly Me To The Moon, Frank Sinatra, Gil Scott-Heron, Harvest Moon, Inspiral Carpets, James Bond, Jonathan King, Leo Sayer, Man In The Moon, Marcels, Moon, Moonage Daydream, Moondance, Moonlight Feels Right, Moonlighting, Moonshadow, Neil Armstrong, Neil Young, Nixon, Ozzy Osbourne, Pink Floyd, Police, Project A119, REM, Richard Nixon, Russian, Saturn V, Showaddywaddy, Sleeping Satelleite, Soviet Union, Space Race, Stanley Kubrick, Starbuck, Supersonic, Tasmin Archer, The Word, Toploader, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Under The Moon Of Love, United States, Van Morrison, Walking On The Moon, Waterboys, Whitey On The Moon, Whole Of The Moon

Based upon information released recently it is alleged that the US Government had planned to blow up the moon in the late 50s as a means of intimidating their nemesis in the Cold War, the Soviet Union. After the Russians effectively took the lead in the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik in 1957 it was apparently believed that a show of strength like blowing up the moon would really scare the Russians. Apparently it was called ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ or ‘Project A119‘. Even that sounds a little James Bond like doesn’t it?

It really does seem like a crackpot scheme and it is unlikely at the time that anyone possessed enough in their nuclear arsenal to actually complete the task. At best it might have left the man in the moon looking more like the elephant Man and the satellite’s surface covered in high levels of radiation. In addition any debris that fell to earth would almost certainly have been radioactive as well.

I wonder if this idea came from the same think tank that thought of the idea of using an explosive cigar to blow up Fidel Castro or to rig the voting in Florida in 2000 in favour of Dubya. Ooops wait a minute that second one was true wasn’t it? had it happened then Neil Armstrong probably wouldn’t have been there to utter his famous ‘one step for man’ line. But then again maybe it did happen and didn’t work very well other than to make the moon radioactive. That would certainly give more credence to those people who believe the moon landings were faked and took place in a film studio directed by Stanley Kubrick.

I’d love to know what you think of this incredibly stupid, yet potentially real plan of Eisenhower’s government. Bearing in mind that his Vice President was Tricky Dicky Nixon, maybe it isn’t surprising! Anyway as I have said many times before so here are a few songs that may not have happened or certainly wouldn’t have been the same had the moon been blown to smithereens, feel free to add your own moon related songs.