Foxgun Tom 75 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Anybody remember Rock Follies and adam Faith in the TV series Budgie?? http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSq5wCRwfXA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFR-zg71Zso Rock Follies was on TV every week, musical drama about a girl band!! music by And Mckay of Roxy Music? I had a wee thing about Julie Covington when she was younger!! in my adolecent days she was my ideal woman Tom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stabs 3 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Wasn't Rula Lenska in that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Yep Stabs she was Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I remember rock follies , not budgie though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Remember them both well. RF was really - as far as I'm aware - what 'made' Rula Lenska. Covington doing alright for herself, if I remember correctly, singing - if not acting? - the theme / original role of " Evita ". Budgie? Great bit of tv! Real 'Quality'! ("Doo Leeev it owt, 'Ayzol! "). Ian Cuthbertson as Charlie Endell! F*ckin brilliant! Adam Faith had a place in Henfield. Was then a tiny village in West Sussex. He lived across the road from the common. Must have cost him a Fortune!!! Yet he once dashed into a vets office with a Dog in his arms and asked that it be checked over ~ I think it had just been hit by a motor in the street outside. The vet gave the Dog the once over and the all clear, saying that'd be a ten bob (Er; A matter of 50p, in todays terms. Though great to have, back then!) Adam Faith looked terribly uncomfortable and blushed deeply as he desperately patted his pockets. The vet, seeing this distressed and embarressed young man getting more flustered as the pretty young receptionist stared, took pity and assured him that it'd be fine if he just dropped it in next time he was passing. (Yeah; Those were the days, eh?!) The vet (having since been informed by a gushing and wide eyed young receptionist that " THAT was Adam Faith!!! ") found the denim clad young man with the 'long' hair before him again the very next day. Still looking rather embarressed. Only this time it was as he explained that, yes, he was Adam Faith. And that, the day before, he'd been mortified to realise the least he had on him was a five pound note (LOT of money, in those days!) and he didn't want to appear flashy, in front of the teenage desk girl, by pulling that out to pay a ten shilling fee. By all accounts, just a genuinely nice, quiet guy. I've never heard a word said against him and no hint of scandal or media milking. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilky 0 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I remember Budgie, now who's going to admit to having one of the trendy Budgie shirts or jackets with the f*****g massive round ended collars and at the same time wearing those absolutely ridiculous duck bill shoes, and just to cap it off a feather cut. I hade some, but I was only about 12 and very impressionable, that's my excuse anyway. Mindst, I wouldn't mind having enough for a feather cut now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I had the lot. Shut up! Height of bloody fashion back then! Always easy to mock such 'Tastes' with forty years of hindsight under ones belt *Cough* ..... yeah, well; Come to think of it; I'd probably not feel so bad, today, wearing an Afghan coat even. But no f*cking way would I leave this cottage in a " Budgie Jacket "! Especially not the two tone blue monstrosity I was so f*ckin proud of back then! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilky 0 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Blue and purple Bet you traded it in for a dead smart jumper with three stars on it eh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Great Adam Faith tale Ditch..... And 'three star' jumpers Wilky......Feckin classic, just sat on the top of the waist line on ye 'Birmingham bags'.... Bermo's round here!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bill88 6 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I wouldn't remember Budgie Tam,im too young However when Channel 4 first came on i watched the Budgie reruns religiously.My older sister was always watching rock follies,and dreaming Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Foxgun Tom 75 Posted April 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 You guys will never realise how happy I am, that!! there is more than one sad old decripit fecker on this forum Tom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest oneredtrim Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 (edited) . Edited April 21, 2008 by oneredtrim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Simoman 110 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I'm 34 and just remember Budgie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
proper job 1 Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I too remember Budgie, I used to love the bit in the credits where he trips and falls and all the money floats in the air, I used to dream of being there to grab the money, those where the days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilky 0 Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Great Adam Faith tale Ditch..... And 'three star' jumpers Wilky......Feckin classic, just sat on the top of the waist line on ye 'Birmingham bags'.... Bermo's round here!! It was Oxford bags round here mate, two tone jobs with a two inch turn up and loafers polished to death, the high waisters thing never lit my candle, but then as I got to about 17, it was the Levi stay press, Ben Sherman shirts and a number 1, never had it back since, I never was over fond of the Crombie, but I really loved the Arrington jackets, didn't like em in black, I had a beige one and a red one, everything just seemed so cool, a smart skinhead. Our kid was into the eye make up on one eye, white bib and brace and brolly, shiny docs, clockwork orange job, he was older than me, and when he came home with the book, my old fella stapled up the back pages so I couldn't read the language explanations, but I remember my favoutite quote "Great big yarballs to thee and thine" Tell you what, when you look at the scruffy little fuckers in trackies and Fred Perry's now, there's just no comparison is there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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