What a slice of history this spread (which you'll find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, six good months of use still to be had) is. Rutland Weekend Television and Shang A Lang on the telly, and Records For The Day by Gary Glitter and a white band putting on black accents. The 1970s, you really had to be there.
I see that I'm busy working on my Loony Selection Encyclopedia at this time, a comic book follow up to the previous year's Loony Buke. Very heavily influenced by the Monty Python and Goodies books I'd been getting for recent birthdays and Christmasses, I daresay these attempts at comedy writing and drawing have not aged well. Thank heavens I don't know where they are. (NB: I do know where they are, having found them when we cleared out Mum & Dad's house five years ago. I am not minded to share them with the world.)
According to this spread (which you can find in the My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar, which is still on sale, for its sins) me and persons unnamed were "attacked by bullies from 2-3". That's Year 2 form 3, at Kibworth High School. Given the way our school years were numbered, that means I'm talking about what we'd now call Year 8s. Knowing what I know about Year 8s, after my many years teaching Comic Art Masterclasses in schools, I can attest to Year 8s being quite the most horrible of years. Their beating up on a poor Year 7 (which is what I would have been) is the least they got up to, I'll be bound.
My fondness for Planet Of The Apes was evident from these page designs. I busied myself writing and drawing my own Planet Of The Apes comics at this time, which I discovered a few years ago when we cleared out Mum's house. They have yet to be shared with the world. It could happen.
My Records For The Day were obscurities by "Western Central Station" (this was, I realise fifty years later, Graham Central Station, names after Larry Graham) and Dr Hook And The Medicine Show.
In this spread, which you can still get as part of My 1975 Diary 2025 Calendar(which has many more uses than just a calendar, obviously) we discover that washing Dad's car for Scout Bob A Job week earns you a whopping 30p in 1975. I also have plenty pictures of Daleks to refer to (which doesn't explain the terrible design you see in the video of my homemade Dalek in last month's blog entry).
My Records For The Day really make it sound like we're a year away from punk rock and desperate for it to start, don't they? David Cassidy and Bobby Goldsboro.
