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		<title>(1974 Album) Fat Mattress &#8211; Fat Mattress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Fat what now?
I do believe this is another album purchased &#8220;on sale&#8221; at one of Eastleigh&#8217;s record emporiums. If I was a betting man I&#8217;d guess Woolworth&#8217;s clearance bins.
In terms of pedigree, Fat Mattress&#8217; is quite the intriguing mish-mash.
The band was formed by Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s bassist Noel Redding on the precept that it would allow him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3003&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Album) Pink Floyd &#8211; A Nice Pair</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Nice Pair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Saucerful of Secrets]]></category>
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Once naive little record collector that I was, it actually took me a few years to realise that &#8220;A Nice Pair&#8221; was actually a repackaging of Floyd&#8217;s first two albums, &#8220;Piper at the Gates of Dawn&#8221; and &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8220;
I think I bought this album cheaply from Martin&#8217;s newsagent in Eastleigh&#8217;s Market Street. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=2977&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Albums) Atomic Rooster &#8211; Made in England</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Oops!
Apparently, in 1974, I ponied up for an Atomic Rooster album?!
Doutbless swayed by the prior Carl Palmer (of ELP) connection I can only assume I either discovered this album languishing in a bargain bin somewhere OR it was some kind of balancing karma for me having successfully palmed off that awful Uriah Heep live album [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3024&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Album) Hard Stuff &#8211; Bolex Dementia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Yet another album that I had to research before I could &#8216;remember&#8217; anything.
Except, even after researching, I still couldn&#8217;t recall a damned thing about this&#8230; not even the sleeve.
All I can tell you is that it was released on Deep Purple&#8217;s own &#8220;Purple&#8221; label and that Hard Stuff were a heavy rock band and were considered something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3010&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1974 School Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my 1973 reports (for which I received several sarcastic comments offline) I bring you my February 1974 school reports&#8230; which appear to show little or no improvement&#8230;. indeed a worrying lack of concentration. Bear in mind these reports followed up my mock O-Level examinations, the real ones (in July) representing the kick-start I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3214&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Albums) Mott the Hoople &#8211; The Hoople</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[all the young dudes]]></category>
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1974 was quite the year for Mott the Hoople.
Flush from the band&#8217;s single success in 1972 with the Bowie-penned &#8220;All the Young Dudes&#8220;, Mott had already enjoyed follow-up hits with songs like &#8220;Honaloochie Boogie&#8221; and &#8220;All the Way from Memphis&#8220;.
(Not before Mott had turned down another offered song from Bowie though&#8230; a certain little ditty entitled &#8220;Drive-In Saturday&#8220;)
Late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=2983&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Album) Byzantium &#8211; Byzantium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Byzantium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chas Jankel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Dury]]></category>
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Confession time&#8230;. I remembered NOTHING &#8211; not a jot &#8211; about Byzantium until I started researching them earlier today.
Even the album sleeve &#8211; seen right &#8211; is little more than the vaguest memory. I think I bought this album as a &#8216;cut out&#8217;, a deleted release signified by having a hole punched in the upper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3001&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 28th until April 17th 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry &#8211; nothing
Whoooooooooooosh!
There goes almost three months of the year in one foul swoop.
I do not know why my diary became a barren venue for my thoughts for all this time, but it does seem to have been a trend in 1974, for whatever reason.
I only have my memory to fall back on &#8230;. and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3092&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Album) Man &#8211; Golden Hour of Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2 oz of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle]]></category>
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The Golden Hour record label was a budget offshoot of the Pye label, and &#8211; at least as I remember it &#8211; tended to concentrate on novelty compilations by has-been singers or TV actors trying to be crooners.
Man had been signed to the Dawn record label &#8211; also a subsidiary of Pye &#8211; in 1968 to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=2971&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Albums) Classical Albums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1812 Overture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dvorak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerson lake and palmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mussorgsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World Symphony]]></category>
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Can you see what Emerson, Lake &#38; Palmer did to me?
Yes, courtesy of budget labels MFP (Music for Pleasure) and (I think it was) Hallmark, I stuck my proverbial toe in the murky waters of classical music, snapping up Mussorgsky&#8217;s &#8220;Pictures at an Exhibition&#8220;, Dvorak&#8217;s &#8220;New World Symphony&#8221; and Tchaikovsky&#8217;s magnificent &#8220;1812 Overture&#8220;
It would be years later [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3020&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Album) Various Artists &#8211; Bradley&#8217;s Roadshow Live</title>
		<link>http://teenagerockopera.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/1974-album-various-artists-bradleys-roadshow-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ll openly admit I had to look this up, not knowing what the hell my entry referred to.
&#8220;Bradley&#8221;? &#8220;Live&#8221;?
A google search eventually managed to jog my memory as what album I bought. I remembered the sleeve when I saw it&#8230;. but absolutely nothing else whatsoever.
Further research informed me that Bradley&#8217;s Roadshow was a concert album showcasing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3017&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(1974 Album) Focus &#8211; At the Rainbow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Once again I fell for Holland&#8217;s finest prog rock export.
Focus at the Rainbow was, as the name suggests, a recording of a live performance by the band at the Rainbow Theatre in London&#8217;s Finsbury Park.
The sleeve was another of those die-cut affairs that were all the rage at the time, cardboard flaps opening left and right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=2979&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 25th / 26th / 27th 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• &#8220;back to Normal lessons + Back to work&#8221;
• &#8220;At work stock taking&#8221;
• &#8220;Went to Ch&#8221;
So, after two gruelling weeks of mock exams &#8211; broken only by some religious retreat rudeness &#8211; it&#8217;s back to the &#8216;daily grind&#8217; for this particular 16-year-old teenager.
School lesson have returned to their usual mundane ubiquity, and I&#8217;m back at Lancaster [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3090&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 24th 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Played T.Tennis in aft&#8221;
There&#8217;s another reference to some kind of &#8217;sporty exercise&#8217;.
I almost had to sit down when I read it.
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		<title>January 23rd 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;TD2 -&#62; Easy&#8221;
Ooh, a day of cocky nonchalance about the exams!
What&#8217;s the betting it blew up in my face?
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		<title>January 22nd 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canterbury Tales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;last nite went to see Canterbury Tales &#8211; dirty but boring&#8221;
I vaguely remember taking &#8220;Angela&#8221; to this movie at the Regal in Eastleigh.
Remember that scene in &#8220;Taxi Driver&#8221; where DeNiro&#8217;s &#8220;Travis Bickle&#8221; character takes Betsy (Cybil Sheppard) out on a date to a porno movie in New York and she is throughly appalled by it all?
Somehow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3084&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 21st 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Economics -&#62; Hard&#8221; / &#8220;Geog (Europe World) -&#62; Hard&#8221;
The mocks continue to mock me back!
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		<title>(1974 Album) Gong &#8211; Camembert Electrique</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Given my disdain for &#8220;all things Soft Machine&#8221; why on earth would I have bought an album by ex-Softsman Daevid Allen&#8217;s Gong?
I can tell you precisely why. Because, like Faust&#8217;s &#8220;The Faust Tapes&#8221; before it, the still-fledgling Virgin Records label sold it for just 49p!
However, unlike The Faust Tapes &#8211; which I still adore 35 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=2997&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 18th (Part 2) / 19th / 20th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• &#8220;Go to Alresford&#8221;
• &#8220;Good laugh at Al. Usual missing of clothes etc&#8221;
• &#8220;Got home about 5:30&#8243;
Old Alresford Place was built in the 17th Century as a country parish rectory.
In the 1800&#8217;s it became the home of the Rt Hon Reverend Sumner, whose wife Mary  founded the Mothers Union, now a worldwide christian organisation boasting a membership of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3080&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>January 14th / 15th / 16th / 17th / 18th (Part I) 1974</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• &#8220;History -&#62; Hard&#8221; / &#8220;RE -&#62; ?&#8221;
• &#8220;Geog (Ord Surv Brit Isles) -&#62; Bloody Hard&#8221;
• &#8220;Eng Lit -&#62; Easy&#8221; / &#8220;French -&#62; Hard&#8221;
• &#8220;Physics -&#62; Hard&#8221;
• &#8220;TD -&#62; Hard&#8221;
The mock O-Levels continue, seemingly relentlessly
Most things seem as if they were &#8216;hard&#8217;.
Geography scored &#8220;bloody hard&#8221; (&#8220;No surprise there&#8221; says Mrs EFA70sTRO), whilst Religious Education was noted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=teenagerockopera.wordpress.com&blog=2504493&post=3078&subd=teenagerockopera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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