80s Classics

[oakman]

 

[Izzy]

Saw Howard Jones in concert a couple of years ago. He's still got it 

 

 

 

 

[oakman]

 

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, oakman said:

 

Phil Oakey - Hinkley's finest 

 

My favorite Human League track....

 

 

[Webbo]

5 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Phil Oakey - Hinkley's finest 

 

My favorite Human League track....

 

 

I always thought he was from Sheffield, you've taught me something there.

[Izzy]

13 minutes ago, Webbo said:

I always thought he was from Sheffield, you've taught me something there.

He wasn't one of us for very long 

 

Oakey was born on 2 October 1955 in Hinckley, Leicestershire. His father worked for the General Post Office and moved jobs regularly: the family moved to Coventry when Oakey was an infant, to Leeds when he was five and to Birmingham when he was nine, attending Catherine-de-Barnes primary school near Solihull, and gaining a scholarship to the independent Solihull School. He settled in Sheffield when he was fourteen.^[4] He was educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield. He left school at 18 without finishing his exams and worked in a number of casual jobs: in a university bookshop, and from 1975 as a porter at Thornbury Annex Hospital in Sheffield. He was married briefly to his girlfriend, whom he met at school, but the marriage did not last long and they were divorced in 1980.

[Alf Bentley]

14 minutes ago, Webbo said:

I always thought he was from Sheffield, you've taught me something there.

 

Likewise - and my ex & all her family came from Hinckley. I presume his connection isn't widely known.

 

According to Wiki, he left in his infancy but stayed around the Midlands and only ended up in Sheffield at 14.....I'd have sworn he had a Sheffield accent.

[Izzy]

I always think of ABC too when taking about the Human League for some reason 

 

 

[oakman]

Phil was from Hinckley? I never knew that.

 

It would make my day if it turned out that Giorgio was born somewhere like Melton Mowbray.

[Webbo]

2 minutes ago, oakman said:

Phil was from Hinckley? I never knew that.

 

It would make my day if it turned out that Giorgio was born somewhere like Melton Mowbray.

I think it was New Parks.

[rico]

Please is a great album

[Izzy]

Great shout above @rico It's amazing that the Pet Shop Boys have been going nearly 40 years and keep re-inventing themselves and making new music. The most successful duo in UK music history and over 100 million record sales worldwide is some going.

 

This reminds me of an old holiday romance 

 

 

 

[Crinklyfox]

 

[rico]

 

[Webbo]

 

[oakman]

 

[rico]

19 hours ago, oakman said:

 

Cor, Wendy James 😍

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[goody2028]

 

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