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Old 07-25-2005, 03:02 PM   #23
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Originally posted by The Rez:
Johnny,

I loved reading your post about those heady days of R&R in England.

Seems like a lot of those players found out about the music anyway though. Was it those legendary Pirate Radio Stations off shore?

Speaking of The Shadows, In '60, I had a buddy from The Netherlands. We played in a garage band together. He had all these cool records by The Shadows & them w/ Cliff Richard.

So guess what we called our garage band?

Bingo! No. The Shadows. I loved this one tune of theirs called "Blue Star" All these fine, fine, instrumentals.

The Rez

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yes and no Rex there were two offshore Radio Carolines and land based pirates stations like Radio London where Al Stewart's old band leader Tony Blackburn started as a Disk Jockey.
Regarding "blue star". I do not remember that instrumental only "Stars Fell On Stockton" which was a great song
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