but whatever he was he wasn’t a DJ IMHO. Not in any real sense.
He was pre BBC when he ran the Ritz ballroom in Manchester as a cover for his activities.I’m too young to remember Saville as a DJ, he was just an increasingly creepy children’s entertainer when I was a kid with ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ (which I didn’t like/watch) and the occasional presentation of Top Of The Pops. It is terrifying that a paedophile could get access to such a position, let alone get away with such astonishing levels of child abuse for a lifetime, but whatever he was he wasn’t a DJ IMHO. Not in any real sense.
It really couldn’t have come at a better time for the Tories. The reason it was handled the way it was, aside from the obvious propaganda value, was that it deflected beautifully from the whole fuel crisis, Partygate, cost of living shitshow. There’s massive anger built up in the system. They were shitting themselves that any anti-monarchy protests caught the mood and spread like wildfire. And it has provided them with (an ultimately futile) exercise to try to claim Scotland is predominantly pro-union.
Short rant time: this whole mourning spectacle we’ve either sat through or have done our level best to ignore is a full-on two-week normalisation of elite power and rule served-up via religion and archaic state ritual. We need to see that aspect very clearly. Monarchy is not normal. It is not an acceptable concept. We should really try and take a few steps back and assess what we are being fed here with some degree of skepticism. This orchestrated mass hysteria is borderline cult behaviour IMHO. It makes me very uncomfortable!
Temper tantrums? What temper tantrums? The 2nd video is what I saw live, which made me think....hmm you're not very nice to your staff. Just watch his face in the last few seconds.Agreed. I’ve done my level best to miss as much as I can, but the bits I’ve seen just look like North Korea, Russia, China or any other deeply authoritarian state. I’m amazed they stopped short of a massive tank parade, but I may just have missed that.
As I stated way upthread I feel weird about it as, like everyone else in the UK, I’ve been gaslit for my whole 59 year life. ‘The Queen’ and all the royal wealth, privilege, pomp and state flamboyance has been part of the background every single day. It has always been there like air, sea, trees, baked beans etc. We are programmed to accept it without question. Yet unlike Thunderbirds, Father Christmas, Scooby Do and the dream of a jet pack or holiday on the moon it is still there now I’m an adult. I’ve long felt that it is ridiculous, conceptually offensive, and now the calming influence of Brenda (who I did kind of like) has passed that is even more blindingly obvious. It is an absolute embarrassment before we even get to the truly vile and visceral tabloid racism aimed 24/7 at Meghan, the twelve £million things wrong with Andrew, Charles’s awful entitled temper tantrums etc etc. It just needs to go. It defies all logic. It is not of this century.
Indeed. The symbolism of it all is so obvious too...
The emphasis on military power. The state religion. Parading the children and grandchildren to show us the dynasty will continue. The crown with huge jewels from the former colonies to demonstrate how much was stolen from them. Etc, etc...
We will have to do it all again next year too.
I am (unfortunately) that old. He was one of a sort of "Big Four" with David Jacobs, Pete Murray and Alan Freeman, all of whom, I believe, had disc-spinning programmes on Radio Luxembourg, the only UK radio source of popular music before the pirate radio ships of the mid-1960s and the BBC's acquiescence to popular culture. They were all regulars on a Saturday TV show called "Juke Box Jury", in which they adjuicated on new releases. It was, I think, the first time the music of John Barry was heard - he wrote the theme tune:I’m too young to remember Saville as a DJ, he was just an increasingly creepy children’s entertainer when I was a kid with ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ (which I didn’t like/watch) and the occasional presentation of Top Of The Pops. It is terrifying that a paedophile could get access to such a position, let alone get away with such astonishing levels of child abuse for a lifetime, but whatever he was he wasn’t a DJ IMHO. Not in any real sense.
I am (unfortunately) that old. He was one of a sort of "Big Four" with David Jacobs, Pete Murray and Alan Freeman, all of whom, I believe, had disc-spinning programmes on Radio Luxembourg, the only UK radio source of popular music before the pirate radio ships of the mid-1960s and the BBC's acquiescence to popular culture.
Despite the BBC management claiming otherwise his predilection as a creep was well known with those who had the misfortune to work for him
Indeed. The symbolism of it all is so obvious too...
The emphasis on military power. The state religion. Parading the children and grandchildren to show us the dynasty will continue. The crown with huge jewels from the former colonies to demonstrate how much was stolen from them. Etc, etc...
We will have to do it all again next year too.
It was a lot earlier than that:He actually claims to have been the first person to use the twin turntable set up, in a club he was running in Manchester in the 60’s.
We all tuned in to Radio Luxembourg at 11.00pm on Sunday night to hear the NME Top Twenty played. 208 on the medium wave, if I recall correctly. Many of the presenters were resident there (Pete Murray certainly was for a while).Of that lot it is only Alan Freeman I knew. He had a Radio 1 program that played a lot of prog etc. I listened to it regularly, in fact it is where I first heard of bands such as La Düsseldorf, so he was certainly playing some interesting outliers now and again! I remember Radio Luxembourg being a thing, but I can’t remember much about it beyond that.