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LOL - here�s one to sort the seedlings from the craggy oaks� i�ve just booked �concert tickets� to see (�alive�, presumably�)
one night only
special appearance
none other than
the all-time great
brightest star in the firmament
the all-singing
all-dancing
"GREATEST ROCKER OF ALL TIME"....
p.
j.
proby !
WHO?
(I assumed he was dead years ago but evidently not, The Return of, Carry on PJ!)
Not a lot to do with gardening but this is Chit Chat after all, �LET THE WATER RUN DOWN� was possibly the closest he ever got to a gardening song (unless you count, tweaked slightly, �YOU�VE COME BACK Cabbage Whites� and �SOMEWHERE I planted parsnip seeds but they�ve yet to appear�). But then perhaps one of his songs should be the anthem of Grapevine: �I CAN�T MAKE IT ALONE�!
Welcome back PJ.
So who do you remember (just about)?
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ps For those still completely in the dark PJ Proby was a major major star of the early 1960s, one of his first jobs was recording demo records for a guy who went by the unlikely name of �Elvis Presley�� For some time PJP was seen as �the new Elvis�, his singing and stage act deemed so emotional and provocative that in 1965 he was banned from British theatres and British TV. BANNED!
(Bear in mind that this was all happening before such things as �Swinging London�, �Carnaby Street� and �Mary Quant fashions� etc; �Beatlemania� was just getting going�.) Amongst other things he is credited with being the first western male in the Twentieth Century to wear his hair in a pony tail! He�ll be 70 next year. Rock on, PJ�
So who do you remember (just about)?
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one night only
special appearance
none other than
the all-time great
brightest star in the firmament
the all-singing
all-dancing
"GREATEST ROCKER OF ALL TIME"....
p.
j.
proby !
WHO?
(I assumed he was dead years ago but evidently not, The Return of, Carry on PJ!)
Not a lot to do with gardening but this is Chit Chat after all, �LET THE WATER RUN DOWN� was possibly the closest he ever got to a gardening song (unless you count, tweaked slightly, �YOU�VE COME BACK Cabbage Whites� and �SOMEWHERE I planted parsnip seeds but they�ve yet to appear�). But then perhaps one of his songs should be the anthem of Grapevine: �I CAN�T MAKE IT ALONE�!
Welcome back PJ.
So who do you remember (just about)?
bb
ps For those still completely in the dark PJ Proby was a major major star of the early 1960s, one of his first jobs was recording demo records for a guy who went by the unlikely name of �Elvis Presley�� For some time PJP was seen as �the new Elvis�, his singing and stage act deemed so emotional and provocative that in 1965 he was banned from British theatres and British TV. BANNED!
(Bear in mind that this was all happening before such things as �Swinging London�, �Carnaby Street� and �Mary Quant fashions� etc; �Beatlemania� was just getting going�.) Amongst other things he is credited with being the first western male in the Twentieth Century to wear his hair in a pony tail! He�ll be 70 next year. Rock on, PJ� So who do you remember (just about)?
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Only hearsay you understand. 
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), Madness, Prince and (though it wasn't very cool to admit it) The Human League.
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