The Eighties

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22676

For those of us who were around in the eighties, I have some news to make you feel old.

Remember 'Echo Beach'? Course you do! Well the lead singer Martha Johnson, well shes 60 this year.

Aaaaaaaagggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....................

Compo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:56 pm

I won a tenner the other night as some one bet me it wasnt martha and the muffins who sang it as it was playing in the pub I work in.

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:56 pm

parmopooly · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:58 pm

think of it another way - in the same amount of time that has passed since then, a hell of a lot of us on here will be brown bread

Compo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:59 pm

parmopooly wrote:

think of it another way - in the same amount of time that has passed since then, a hell of a lot of us on here will be brown bread

I hope i wont be

Mumtaz's rucksack · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 1643

parmopooly wrote:

think of it another way - in the same amount of time that has passed since then, a hell of a lot of us on here will be brown bread

Maybe we should make a video then so everyone remembers us. :laugh:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22676

Or to make matters worse, those of us of that era left school in 79/80 ish will be in our late seventies in the same timescale since we walked out of the school gates.

poolie bri · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:08 pm

fecking hell i left school 1980 sadx

Mumtaz's rucksack · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 1643

left in 1981 sadx

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:36 pm

Compo wrote:

I won a tenner the other night as some one bet me it wasnt martha and the muffins who sang it as it was playing in the pub I work in.

Gabriella Cilmi did a cover version recently to go with the ITV's comedy-drama series Moving Wallpaper and soap Echo Beach.

Compo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:38 pm

but that shit

bresslaw · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 2411

Martha & The Muffins' best album, This is the Ice Age is one of the best albums I own, fantastic stuff !!!

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:47 pm

A top ten hit the year i left school .. :grin:

She is a slut
He thinks he's tough
She is a bitch
He is a puff
Yeah Yeah

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:49 pm

Sussex07 wrote:

A top ten hit the year i left school .. :grin:

She is a slut
He thinks he's tough
She is a bitch
He is a puff
Yeah Yeah

jilted john by jilted john :laugh:

Mumtaz's rucksack · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 1643

Sussex07 wrote:

A top ten hit the year i left school .. :grin:

She is a slut
He thinks he's tough
She is a bitch
He is a puff
Yeah Yeah

Fook me Sussex, you're odler than me. clappp

..........................................JUST. sadx

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:30 pm

I always thought it was a bloke singing!!!! :shock:

WaldoPepper · **Joined:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:42 pm **Posts:** 589

Debbie Harry's age is more sobering.

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:16 pm

Carly Simon 65 .. :shock:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22676

Elvis is dead.

threepintwonder · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:23 pm

Mr I wrote:

Elvis is dead.

i did'nt know he was ill

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:26 pm

Chuck Berry 83 and still touring... :laugh:

loan_star · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:21 pm

Another way of looking at it, when I started watching Darlo all the players (even the kids) were older than me. Now Im old enough to be a dad to alot of them violin

I try not to think about it much!

Loid Haw-Haw of Sussex · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:52 pm

I try not to look too long in the mirror nowadays...

Mumtaz's rucksack · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 1643

loan_star wrote:

Another way of looking at it, when I started watching Darlo all the players (even the kids) were older than me. Now Im old enough to be a dad to alot of them violin

I try not to think about it much!

When i started watching pools we were crap and now we're errrrrrrrrrrr.............hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....................not much changed really. :laugh:

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