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Post by bluey on Jul 29, 2017 16:44:04 GMT
Here is a newspaper cutting from 1968, two young actors from the BBC-TV series "The Newcomers" have joined the "Idle Race Fan Club". They got the chance to meet band members :- Jeff Lynne, Greg Masters, Dave Pritchard and Roger Spencer. Attachment Deleted
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Post by BSJ on Jul 29, 2017 18:31:20 GMT
You just hope someone still has the poster and it was signed.
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Post by unomusette on Jul 29, 2017 20:37:43 GMT
Great cutting, I've never seen any Idle Race posters before either. Are they to be found for sale?
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Post by bluey on Jul 29, 2017 21:14:35 GMT
Great cutting, I've never seen any Idle Race posters before either. Are they to be found for sale? I think the posters were given to Idle Race fan club members on joining. Haven't a clue if any survived. I suppose most of them were stuck onto teenagers bedroom walls and were ripped off the wall a few years later.
DJ Kenny Everett was Honary President of the Idle Race fan club, his fellow DJ John Peel was an Idle Race supporter too.
Here is an early photo of the Idle Race looking very dapper in their nice new clothes.
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Post by BSJ on Jul 30, 2017 2:15:33 GMT
Looks like a colorized 1800 photo.
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Post by bluey on Jul 30, 2017 12:00:18 GMT
Looks like a colorized 1800 photo. Yes, the original photo was monochrome, colour film was expensive in the 1960's and the Idle Race never made a fortune from their had work. They were idle in name only, a very hard working band, who just couldn't get a hit record.
Here are some more Idle Race related newspaper cuttings.
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