This diary entry covers most of what I did in the summer holidays, watching TV, drawing my diary, visiting Steve in Bristol and buying comics (check out how many comics you could buy for a quid in 1977). Meanwhile the band's taking a rest because Nick's living the high life in Lowestoft. How the other half lived.
Another arcane selection of Records For The Day. Alongside what were most likely my first ever hearings of Life In The Fast Lane and Nobody Does It Better, we have some songs that posterity hasn't had a lot of time for: Watching You Grow by Spartacus (nothing on Youtube for this one), I Can't Stop The Rain by David Ruffin, Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Summer Wine and Vitamin U by Smokey Robinson? Me neither.
Because there's been interest in using some of my childhood diary
spreads in a BBC TV show called the Peoples History Of Pop - my Records
For The Day caught the eye of a researcher - I've dug a few more out and
put them up here on the My 1970s Diary. (I kept the Picture Diary from
1974 to 1978 but to date have only found a couple of volumes from 1977).
Here we see the first of many pieces I've produced influenced by Jim Steranko's pioneering graphic novel Chandler: Red Tide, which I'd clearly just bought. I went on to produce an entire comic of my own, Mr Hawk, in the same format, once I got to art college.
The Records For The Day are, as always, intriguing. Quite why I chose three Bee Gees records is unclear, could it be that the promotion for Saturday Night Fever was kicking in? And Mike Nesmith's Navajo Trail is just one of many tunes that I must Google on Youtube*, having not heard them in the intervening decades.
Yes, doesn't Starsky have an unusually brown face in this picture? I've long struggled with colour, it would seem. And this was the day I bought BC: Life Is A Fifty Pence Paperback. How many other books must have to change their title every time they're reprinted?
Records For The Day: That's What Friends Are For by Deniece Williams and People In Love by 10CC.
Because there's been interest in using some of my childhood diary
spreads in a BBC TV show called the Peoples History Of Pop - my Records
For The Day caught the eye of a researcher - I've dug a few more out and
put them up here on the My 1970s Diary. (I kept the Picture Diary from
1974 to 1978 but to date have only found a couple of volumes from 1977).
