Fades in Slowly

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- Flock of Seagulls on TOTP

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At some point you have to just say that the music must take precedence over the hair – pretty much any piece of music ever produced being that point. Never mind anything else, think of the damage this bugger singlehandedly did to the ozone layer keeping that monstrosity im place. JP must have heard something in the music though, as he featured them in session in 1981 (see my post

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November 11th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

- Sensational Alex and Peel’s Prototype Mullet

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Alex Harvey

Just as with everything else he did, John Peel was ahead of the game when it came to sporting the renowned ‘mullet’ haircut. This can be seen in the videoclip you’re about to watch, in which a mid-seventies Peel interviews Alex Harvey between songs.

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This post was inspired mainly by Gary’s excellent post on Alex Harvey over at his Aural Stimulation blog.

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September 11th, 2007 at 11:00 am

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